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On the opening day of Infosecurity Europe 2022, Professor Keith Martin delivered a keynote speech focusing on the critical yet often invisible role cryptography plays in our everyday lives, enabling us to protect our information and share it securely. The session saw Martin explain how cryptography is used and revealed the many crucial ways we depend on cryptographic technology. Martin began by asserting a common theme heard across the day from multiple speakers: emphasizing the responsibility we all…

A new wave of targeted voicemail phishing attacks has been hitting US companies in selected verticals since May 2022. The campaign’s goal is to collect Office 365 credentials of legitimate corporate users. Image: Rogatnev/Adobe Stock Email phishing campaigns are regularly hitting organizations in the U.S., but voicemail phishing is less common. A new report from Zscaler exposes a new attack scheme  begun in May 2022 that aims to collect valid credentials for Office 365 mailboxes….

The self-sustaining ransomware industry earned $692m from collective attacks in 2020 The shift to the subscription economy has created a new norm in the as-a-service world. And it’s not just Netflix and Spotify that have adopted this business model. New research from Tenable®, the Cyber Exposure company, found that one of the main reasons ransomware has prospered is due to the advent of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) which has catapulted ransomware from a fledgling threat into a…

Supply chains, trust, and the Internet itself remain prime targets.  When Russia launched wide-ranging cyber-attacks while its army invaded Ukraine, it also deployed waves of wiper malware to destroy data.   The first wave targeted the data on the disks. As Ukraine fortified its defenses in that area, the second wave left the data on the disks alone and went after the metadata. The third wave bypassed the two previous targets and attacked the file systems….

A new report from Tenable Research explores the key players in the ransomware ecosystem and the tactics that have helped propel it from a fledgling cyberthreat into a force to be reckoned with. Ransomware is a constantly evolving cyberthreat, and it is through its evolution that ransomware has managed to not only survive, but thrive. There are a number of reports that detail ransomware’s evolution, from the earliest form of ransomware known as the AIDS…

The number of security breaches stemming from stolen or compromised identities has reached epidemic proportions, according to new data from the non-profit Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA). The IDSA polled 500 US identity and security professionals to compile its 2022 Trends in Securing Digital Identities report. It found that 84% had experienced an identity-related breach in the past year, with the vast majority (78%) claiming it had a direct business impact. Part of the problem is the soaring volumes…