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The growth of the internet has impacted profoundly on everyday life and the global economy. It has evolved into a global, interconnected network of systems and information – cyberspace – that we know today, transforming the conduct of business and opening new markets.
Threats to cyber security are persistent and constantly evolving. With an ever-growing number of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, online commerce and the private sector worldwide, security experts are finding that their work has become a race against the attackers.
The Cyber Security Review is designed to draw on the combined knowledge, skills and expertise of the cyber security community to identify the emerging threats and facilitate the development of coherent policies and robust capabilities.
Our mission is to promote dialogue and provide a platform for information exchange and cooperation between stakeholders, industry, academia and security experts worldwide.
Latest news
- Cyberattack Downs Pensacola’s City Systems
December 10, 2019
The city of Pensacola, Fla., said it has been hit by a cyberattack that shut down the city’s computer networks and affected its systems. The attack ...
- New Plundervolt attack impacts Intel CPUs
December 10, 2019
Academics from three universities across Europe have disclosed today a new attack that impacts the integrity of data stored inside Intel SGX, a highly-secured area ...
- Snatch Team Steals Data and Hammers Orgs with Ransomware
December 10, 2019
A fresh ransomware variant known as “Snatch” has been spotted in campaigns, forcing Windows machines to reboot into Safe Mode before beginning the encryption process. ...
- China ‘bans foreign computer equipment and software from state offices’
December 9, 2019
Beijing has ordered every public institution in the country to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years, according to the Financial Times. The newspaper ...
- Cyber security takes its place alongside UK’s armed services
December 6, 2019
The pervasiveness of information and the pace of technological change are utterly transforming the character of warfare in the 21st Century, and the cyber security industry has ...
- International law enforcement operation exposes the world’s most harmful cyber crime group
December 5, 2019
A Russian national who runs Evil Corp has been indicted in the United States following unprecedented collaboration between the NCA, the FBI and the National ...
- Ransomware attack hits major US data center provider
December 5, 2019
CyrusOne, one of the biggest data center providers in the US, has suffered a ransomware attack, ZDNet has learned. In an email after this article’s publication, ...
- New ransomware attacks target your NAS devices, backup storage
December 5, 2019
The number of ransomware strains targeting NAS and backup storage devices is growing, with users “unprepared” for the threat, researchers say. Ransomware comes in many forms and ...
- OpenBSD Hit with Authentication, LPE Bugs
December 5, 2019
An authentication bypass and three local privilege-escalation (LPE) bugs have been uncovered in OpenBSD, the Unix-like open-source operating system known for its security protections. The most ...
- ‘Ultimate’ MiTM Attack Steals $1M from Israeli Startup
December 5, 2019
Hackers pulled off an elaborate man-in-the-middle campaign to rip off an Israeli startup by intercepting a wire transfer from a Chinese venture-capital firm intended for ...
- New vulnerability lets attackers sniff or hijack VPN connections
December 5, 2019
Academics have disclosed this week a security flaw impacting Linux, Android, macOS, and other Unix-based operating systems that allows an attacker to sniff, hijack, and ...
- APAC’s Compromised Domains Fuel Emotet Campaign
December 4, 2019
Discovered in 2014, Emotet is one of the most prolific malware families, infecting computer systems globally through its mass campaigns of spam email that delivers ...
- APT review: what the world’s threat actors got up to in 2019
December 4, 2019
What were the most interesting developments in terms of APT activity during the year and what can we learn from them? This is not an easy ...
- Obfuscation Tools Found in the Capesand Exploit Kit Possibly Used in “KurdishCoder” Campaign
December 4, 2019
In November 2019, Trend Micro published a blog analyzing an exploit kit we named Capesand that exploited Adobe Flash and Microsoft Internet Explorer flaws. During our ...
- Buer, a new loader emerges in the underground marketplace
December 4, 2019
For several years, Proofpoint researchers have been tracking the use of first-stage downloaders, which are used by threat actors to install other forms of malware ...
- FBI warns about snoopy smart TVs spying on you
December 3, 2019
She laughed. I laughed. The TV laughed. I shot the TV. “Blasted Decepticons!” That’s how a popular meme went after the Transformer movies hit it big. Today, ...
- Biometric data processing and storage system threats
December 2, 2019
Initially, digital biometric data processing systems were used primarily by government agencies and special services (police, customs, etc.). However, the rapid evolution of information technology ...
- Android: New StrandHogg vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
December 2, 2019
Security researchers from Promon, a Norwegian firm specialized in in-app security protections, said they identified a bug in the Android operating system that lets malicious ...
- Imminent Monitor – a RAT Down Under
December 2, 2019
The availability of “commodity malware” – malware offered for sale – empowers a large population of criminals, who make up for their lack of technical ...
