– 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...

and power generation throughout Kazakhstan. Dragos is aware of targeted operations that started during the third quarter of 2019 and have intermittently continued throughout 2021. ERYTHRITE is an activity group that broadly targets organisations in the...

De|Center, spoke to more than 5,000 people from Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Sudan between 2019 and January 2024. The research was conducted via 15 focus groups, 93 interviews, and numerous surveys. While the research...

practitioners in the lead-up to the census to test the system for vulnerabilities with DDoS attacks of their own. In 2019, Auth0 launched a private bug bounty program to further reinforce its emphasis on security and ensure that its customers are...

accounted for 31.6 per cent of cyber attacks on businesses last year. This share has skyrocketed from 13 per cent in 2019 – likely spurred by the move to remote working. Vulnerability exploitation (31.5 per cent) was the other common method used to...

potential conflict of interest. Prior to his time with Home Affairs, Anstee was an executive director for CyberCX from June 2019 to August 2021, at which time he acquired the shares. Home Affairs is reportedly aware of the issue, having responded to...

to take advantage of the vulnerability over a 10-day hacking spree. Clop ransomware was first seen in operation in February 2019.

Salesforce-related compromises, a practice continued by the hackers in their current form. ShinyHunters itself dates back to 2019. The group is known for its technical and social engineering skills, and its membership is thought to be largely...

Unsurprisingly, six of the sample emails were included in this list. Canva The popular design app suffered a data breach in 2019 that saw 137 emails and other details exposed. One of our sample emails was part of this breach. Adobe The popular software...

festival and had compromised more than 340,000 MIFF customers. In a post dated 30 May, the hacker – who calls themselves 2019 – said the data included addresses, customer IDs, email addresses, names, as well as membership and purchasing data. The data...

catalogue on the day of its publication. This zero-day is a security feature bypass vulnerability impacting Microsoft Office 2019 and has a high severity CVSS score of 7.8. According to Microsoft, “reliance on untrusted inputs in a security decision in...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. In 2021 Penten won Emerging...

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...

shopping searches. Google was fined €2.42 billion (roughly A$3.83 billion at the time, A$4.32 billion now). Then, in 2019, the commission once again fined Google for blocking ads displayed by competitor advertising companies on publisher search result...

founded as an enterprise security company with Google "X". It migrated into Google itself by way of Google Cloud in 2019 as part of the search giant's efforts to expand its enterprise revenues, by expanding the functionality and services around its...

In addition, Meta only recently began the task of preserving evidence, despite a legal duty to do so coming into effect in 2019, when Forrest’s lawyers put the company on notice. “The weight of the evidence thus supports a finding that Meta had, and...