and reiterates the call to all countries to refrain from behaviour that violates international commitments. In September 2019, Australia, the US and The Netherlands launched the Joint Statement on Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace,...

Kingdom’s Royal Mail and financial firm the ION Group. LockBit has been in operation in one form or another since September 2019 and is thought to be based in Russia.

impacts the following product versions: Microsoft Exchange Server Subscription Edition RTM Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 15 Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 23...

NSO Group is currently accused by Meta-owned WhatsApp of spying on 1,400 of its users in a case that has been running since 2019. WhatsApp has alleged that Pegasus was used to spy on its users for a period of two weeks, intercepting even encrypted...

out its mission”. Creating a new service out of a whole cloth is not without precedent. The US Space Force was stood up in 2019 and there was no US Air Force until 1947 – the air service was a wing of the US Army until then. By creating a US Cyber...

The US Treasury Department sanctioned three North Korean hacking groups (Lazarus Group, BlueNoroff, and Andariel) in 2019 for sending stolen financial assets to the North Korean government. Previously, the US government outlined that the various tactics...

is facing a number of charges relating to the sale and use of Warzone, having provided support for the malware between June 2019 and no earlier than March 2023. The international operation was led by FBI agents in Atlanta and Boston in the US, with...

Russian military aggression, both directly in their territories and indirectly through cyber and other attacks. In October 2019, the government of Georgia, alongside international partners including the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), called...

to governments. “Elections are also a prime target,” the Foreign Secretary said. “Russian actors tried to interfere in the 2019 general election … spreading lies online, taking aim squarely at British democracy. “In 2017 the Russian military mounted the...

the police cyber prevent network of students as young as nine deploying DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks from 2019 to 2020. A new UK initiative to divert young people away from criminality has been launched after cyber attacks designed to...

computer hacking and a range of other fraud charges related to his SIM-swapping scheme. The scheme ran between March and May 2019, when O’Connor and his cronies targeted a US cryptocurrency company providing wallets and other crypto industry services....

on parliamentarians from multiple parties from at least 2015, hacking US-UK trade documents and leaking them prior to the 2019 general election, and the 2018 hacking of the Institute for Statecraft, which is a thinktank with the role of defending UK...

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...

been stripped of security clearance and the Justice Department has been ordered to investigate him. Taylor wrote a book in 2019 criticising Trump and his presidency. “I think it’s a very important case, and I think he’s guilty of treason, if you want to...

and Cybersecurity Ventures, the sums paid in ransom to unlock data are thought to have increased from $11.5 billion in 2019 to an estimated $20 billion in 2021. “Attackers gain initial access to a company's network via a remote desktop protocol (RDP) or...

flaws detailed above. CISA and the FBI also published a list of the top 10 most exploited security flaws between 2016 and 2019 and a top list of routinely exploited bugs in 2020 in collaboration with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the...

event information and were thus exempt from anti-spam laws – laws that it had been formerly warned about contravening in 2019. But since the messages contained links to web pages promoting other events, the ACMA has ruled that they were, in fact,...

added that the affected customers were limited to those who made purchases on the company’s e-commerce site between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020. Samsung also suffered two data breaches in 2022, having been attacked in March 2022 when the Lapsus$...

most common cyber crime in 2020, with 240,000 victims leading to a loss of US$50 million – this is two times more than in 2019, and 10 times higher than in 2018. Phishing is causing havoc like never before, and this goes to show that email protection is...

last month, its backers noted that Taiwan had been the target of up to 40 million Chinese cyber attacks each month in 2019, “some of which were later used against the United States”. “We must push back on the Chinese Communist Party’s growing aggression...