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It’s happening again: a vicious malware attack is expanding across Europe, using the same tricks as WannaCry.

Only a month after WannaCry, a new malware attack is spreading like wildfire across Europe, India, Russia and is definitely heading towards America. A variant of the Petya/Petrwrap malware virus has already affected companies in Spain, France and the UK. Symantec has confirmed the ransomware is using EternalBlue, the same exploit as last month’s WannaCry […]

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Wanna Cry. Our analysis.

Ransomware has been a recognised issue for some time, however to date, perhaps only one or two systems in a company might have become infected by the wayward clicks of a bored receptionist. Ransomware has rarely been a business-critical issue. Wanna Cry changed that. Not only did it infect single machines, as classic ransomware does,

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$100 million whaling scam: A “wake up call” for even the most sophisticated firms.

Last month, the papers reported that two major US technology firms were deceived by Evaldas Rimasauskas, a Lithuanian criminal, into sending him $100 million through an email whaling scam. It has just been confirmed that Google and Facebook were the two companies that were the victims of this scam.  The two companies did not confirm

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Almost half of UK firms hit by cyber breach or attack in the past year

The latest Government report on UK business cyber security has landed, and it does not make pleasant reading. The Cyber Breaches Survey is part of the Government’s five-year National Cyber Security Strategy to transform the UK’s cyber security and to protect businesses online. The depressing bit… The report reveals that almost half of UK firms (46%)

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How to increase your business resilience

Resilience is a buzz word in board rooms in the UK at the moment; but for a VERY good reason. Control Risks, the heavyweight global business risk consultancy, recently published a survey on the “The State of Enterprise Resilience” for 2016-17. [The State of Enterprise Resilience Survey 2016/7 – https://www.controlrisks.com/en/services/security-risk/the-state-of-enterprise-resilience-survey-2016-2017]  They explain business resilience as “an organisation

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