ransomware

Cyber crime costs Londoners £26 million a month, police warn

Londoners are losing an average of £26 million a month in cyber attacks on businesses and individuals, Scotland Yard warned today. About 3,500 victims of cyber fraud are recorded in the capital each month, with phishing emails, ransomware and malware the most common scams. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 8th March 2018
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Baby boomers more cybersecurity savvy than Gen-Z

Generation Z are the least ransomware savvy generation while baby boomers were more likely to accurately define ransomware and were the savviest when it comes to not forwarding emails from unknown senders. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 29th January 2018
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UK Consumers Hit By £4.6bn In Cyber Crime Last Year

Consumers lost £130 billion worldwide to hackers in 2017, including a disproportionate £4.6bn stolen from British consumers, found computer security firm Norton in a new study. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 23rd January 2018
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Netflix phishing campaign goes after your login, credit card, mugshot and ID

Think of the big security stories of recent months. Security holes like F**CKWIT and KRACK; a plethora of ransomware attacks ending in extortion; data breaches that were big, bigger or biggest……there are plenty of candidates for the story that got the most attention. In contrast, phishing attacks rarely make the news these days, even though (or […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 16th January 2018
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#Security predictions for 2018 from the Advent IM Team

Its that time of year. We look back over our shoulder and use the previous 12 months to try and work out what we can expect in the coming 12 months. Sometimes we get it horribly right, such as our prediction of the meteoric rise in ransomware and also that it would start to impact […]
  • Posted by Ellie Hurst
  • On 21st December 2017
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Clarkson ‘won’t be held to ransom’ says boss after the shipbroker suffers cyber attack

Shipbroker Clarkson has suffered a cyber attack and warned that hackers could release confidential information stolen from the company’s computer network. The FTSE 250 business is understood to have been the subject of the attack earlier this month but has waited until now to reveal it. Clarkson used a statement to the market to say its […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 1st December 2017
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Cyber security collaboration is key to dark web deterrent

Vigilance remains high as cyber intelligence experts anticipate the next big ransomware threat. When the NotPetya cyber attack struck in June, taking the radiation monitoring system at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant briefly offline and causing massive disruption to global companies such as WPP and Maersk, security experts braced for a wave of attacks. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 20th November 2017
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IT Pros Expect the Worse, Claim to be ‘Prepared’ for Attack

A new survey from Varonis has revealed that almost half of IT pros expect their organization to suffer a major, disruptive attack in the next 12 months – though the vast majority are confident in their cybersecurity stance and believe their company is in a good defensive position. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 13th November 2017
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