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Her Majesty’s Treasury, the UK government department responsible for the nation’s economic policy, has been hit by nearly five million malicious email attacks in the past three years, according to official figures. The data obtained by the think tank Parliament Street following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request showed that 4,870,389 phishing, malware and spam emails targeting HM Treasury were successfully blocked in this period. This was comprised of 1,271,207 malicious email attacks from October…

SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 27, 2021 – Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced it took top honors in three categories at the 2021 CISO Choice Awards including Premier Security Company for the second straight year. Proofpoint also won the categories of best Email Security and Cloud Security solutions.   A first of its kind vendor recognition selected by a CISO Board of Judges – leading security executives across industries – the CISO Choice Awards is a buyer’s…

A notorious North Korean APT group has been observed compromising the software supply chain, in campaigns reminiscent of the attacks on SolarWinds and Kaseya, according to Kaspersky. Lazarus infected legitimate South Korean security software to deploy a malicious payload to target a think tank in the Asian country, researchers explained.  Used in the attack was an updated version of its BLINDINGCAN remote access Trojan (RAT) previously covered by the US authorities and a second RAT, dubbed COPPERHEDGE. A second…

A plan by the UK telecoms regulator to block scam calls from abroad could save consumers nearly £10m annually in money lost to phone fraudsters, according to a new study from Comparitech. Ofcom announced on Monday that the country’s telephone networks had agreed to block calls made from outside the UK but displaying as a domestic number — a common tactic used to add legitimacy to fraudulent calls. It claimed one network has already introduced…

A trade body has warned of a major DDoS attack campaign designed to extort money from global Voice over IP (VoIP) providers. Comms Council UK, which represents over 100 VoIP providers, said “several” of its members and international providers had been hit over the past four weeks as part of a coordinated extortion campaign by professional cyber-criminals. “As our members supply telecoms services to critical infrastructure organizations including the police, NHS and other public services,…