by Dianne Bayley | Oct 26, 2021 | Security and Legal
About 140 resellers and technology service providers have fallen victim to Nobelium, the alleged Russian state actor behind the SolarWinds Orion cyberattacks, since May 2021. The Nobelium attacks are believed to use password spray and phishing to steal credentials and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 14, 2021 | Security and Legal
Anonymised data, voluntarily provided by Kaspersky Internet Security for Android users, has shown which messenger apps are the most popular among phishing scammers. The biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May 2021 were sent via WhatsApp...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 21, 2020 | Security and Legal
All organisations are vulnerable to insider threats. The latest data shows that the number of insider incidents has increased by 47% over the past two years, now affecting more than 34% of businesses. Doros Hadjizenonos, Regional Sales Manager at Fortinet weighs in on...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 18, 2020 | Security and Legal
Threats related to the Covid-19 crisis defined the cybersecurity landscape in the second quarter of 2020, according to ESET’s Q2 2020 Threat Report shows. “Our telemetry showed a continued influx of Covid-19 lures in Web and email attacks, as well as an increase in...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 10, 2020 | Security and Legal
Covid-19 and the lockdown have forced individuals and organisations to do ever more of their business online. Unfortunately, crime has followed suit, and cybercrime has been rife since the lockdown, writes Lindile Xoko, Executive: Sales at Netstar, a subsidiary of...
