Entrust had yet to bend to LockBit's demands. The LockBit gang, whose malware of the same name was first detected in 2019, has become one of the more prolific threat groups in the growing and evolving ransomware scenes. DDoS campaigns are designed to...

businesses (SMBs). SMBs are being increasingly targeted in Australia. The National Cybersecurity Alliance found in a 2019 report that 43 per cent of all cyber attacks were on businesses with under 250 employees, while the Australian Cyber Security...

the number of women in the company and ultimately to grow its gender diversity. To better support a diverse workforce, in 2019 the company introduced 26 weeks of paid parental leave for new parents regardless of gender, as well as unlimited paid sick,...

systems running at those locations. The Muhleberg Nuclear Power Plant, west of Bern in Switzerland and offline since 2019, is one such tracked location. The Amezit platform was also part of a 2018 training program to teach operators how to “disable...

Call, a global initiative to limit the spread of extremist and terrorist content online. The Call is named after a 2019 terrorist attack that took place in the New Zealand city of Christchurch that saw 51 people murdered. The attack was streamed live...

its mission.” Kinetic IT has been used by the Defence’s ICT sector since its first contract for an ICT Service Desk in 2019, providing technological and digital support to “mission-critical environments”. “This agreement recognises the strength of our...

of terrorism (CFT), which could save on overall compliance costs. Financial crime compliance costs jumped 18 per cent from 2019 to 2020, largely driven by increased labour costs. However, financial institutions that allocated a larger share of financial...

flight delays after the third-party system used for check-ins and boarding was infiltrated. A similar instance happened in 2019, when the personal data of more than 120,000 Air New Zealand frequent flyer customers was compromised after two staff members...

company has been aware of for some time, with Bleeping Computer noting it has been listed on KeePass’ Help Center page since 2019. “An attacker who has write access to the KeePass configuration file can modify it maliciously (for example, he could...

word from the company. The Medusa ransomware gang first appeared in June 2021, with some reports saying it was observed in 2019. The threat actor operates a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called MedusaLocker. The group’s attack strategy involves using...

and other members of civil society. WhatsApp is alleging that the NSO Group deployed its software against 1,400 users in 2019, and it has sought the release of several documents relating to the incident. The leaked data, however, reveals that the Israel...

of developing “safe and beneficial artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity”, said the company. However, in 2019, prior to the release of the company’s AI chatbot ChatGPT, the company created a for-profit subsidiary to raise funding, having...

Carefully crafting the character Marcela (Marcy) Flores, the hackers added their target as a friend on Facebook in late 2019 before kickstarting their online friendship by exchanging messages in November of the following year. The cyber criminals...

program and its military nuclear program,” with the sanctions mentioned referring to those placed on the bank by the US in 2019 after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal it had with Iran, which would limit the Iranian nuclear program. In return, Iran...

Infoblox have observed a sophisticated Chinese threat actor that has been manipulating China’s Great Firewall since at least 2019. Dubbed Muddling Meerkat after both the “bewildering” nature of its activity and its underground operations, the threat...

– updated their sanctions lists 210 times in 2020. Sanctions-related fines issued by OFAC alone exceeded $1.3 billion in 2019. Other countries are also increasing their sanctions activity; in September 2020 China’s Ministry of Commerce announced...

software on the Google Play app store for Android devices. Researchers from Kaspersky studied nine dark web forums between 2019 and 2023 and found a range of services being offered, for a range of prices. At the lower end of the market, the cheapest...

group of the same name. Whereas the real Anonymous Sudan — which was a “loose hacking collective” — began its operations in 2019, the newer group started posting on its Telegram channel in January 2023. As far as CyberCX can confirm, the two groups do...

So great is the threat of cyber-enabled warfare, that upon the release of the French government’s Military Cyber Strategy in 2019, the country’s Minister for the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, argued that “cyber warfare has begun”. Indeed, the strategy...

used by a variety of organisations. Patches have started to roll out late on July 20, including fixes for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Subscription Edition. A patch for SharePoint Server 2016 is not yet available but is expected to be released...