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Lizard Squad Threatens UK's Labour Leader with Cyberattacks Against His Family
Lizard Squad, the well-known hacktivist cybergang, is pledging to mount personal cyberattacks on Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. As the UK continues to be roiled by Brexit debate ahead of a Dec. 12 general election, the Labour Party said on Tuesday that it had been targeted by a...
You've Been Served…with Subpoena-Themed Phishing Emails
A phishing campaign claiming to deliver emailed subpoenas is targeting insurance and retail companies. According to researchers, the phishing emails are spoofing the UK Ministry of Justice, aiming to capitalize on scare tactics to convince targets to click on an embedded link to “learn more about...
Designing a COM library for Rust
I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language SSPL group, which explores safe programming languages as a proactive measure against memory-safety related vulnerabilities. This blog po...
Unspecified Vulnerability in ARM mbed TLS and ARM Mbed Crypto
ARM mbed TLS and ARM Mbed Crypto are both products of ARM UK. ARM mbed TLS is a product that provides secure communication and encryption for mbed products. ARM Mbed Crypto is an implementation of the cryptographic interface to the ARM Platform Security Architecture PSA. A security vulnerability...
Vulnerabilities Exploited in Multiple VPN Applications
The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released an alert on advanced persistent threat APT actors exploiting vulnerabilities in Virtual Private Network VPN applications. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The...
The State of Stalkerware in 2019
Introduction and methodology Six months ago, we created a special alert that notifies users about commercial spyware stalkerware products installed on their phones. This report examines the use of stalkerware and the number of users affected by this software in the first eight months of 2019...
Ineffective Package Tracking Facilitates Fraud
This article discusses an e-commerce fraud technique in the UK. Because the Royal Mail only tracks packages to the postcode -- and not to the address - it's possible to commit a variety of different frauds. Tracking systems that rely on signature are not similarly vulnerable...
A week in security (September 16 -22)
Last week on Labs, we sounded the alarm about the relaunch of Emotet, one of the year's most dangerous forms of malware, with a new spam campaign. We also reported on how international students in UK are targeted by visa scammers, what CEOs think about a potential US data privacy law, and...
Smart Watches and Cheating on Tests
The Independent Commission on Examination Malpractice in the UK has recommended that all watches be banned from exam rooms, basically because it's becoming very difficult to tell regular watches from smart watches...
Unsecured database leaks phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users
By Sudais The unsecured database contained 133 million records from the US, 18 million in the UK and 50 million in Vietnam - All from Facebook users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Unsecured database leaks phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users...
NCSC Releases UK Cyber Incident Trends Report
The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released a report detailing cyber incident trends in the UK from October 2018 to April 2019. The report provides technical guidance on how to defend against, and recover from, the following cyber threats: ransomware, phishing,...
Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims
A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million over £922,000 worth of cryptocurrencies to his victims. Grant West, a 27-year-old resident of Kent, England, targeted several well-known companies around th...
New Facebook ad reporting tool launches in UK
Last year, well-known consumer advice expert Martin Lewis decided to take Facebook to court for defamation. The cause? Multiple bogus adverts placed on the social network featuring his likeness, appearing via the ad network Outbrain. As a trusted face in consumer causes, scammers bolting Lewis'...
A week in security (July 8 – 14)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at ways to send your sensitive information in a secure fashion, examined some tactics in incident response land, and explored federal data privacy law. We also looked at how security tools can turn against you, and took a deep dive into the rather fiendis...
Marriott Faces $123 Million GDPR Fine Over Starwood Data Breach
After fining British Airways with a record fine of £183 million earlier this week, the UK's data privacy regulator is now planning to slap world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International with a £99 million $123 million fine under GDPR over 2014 data breach. This is the second major penalty...
NCSC Releases Advisory on Ryuk Ransomware
The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released an advisory, Ryuk Ransomware Targeting Organisations Globally, on their ongoing investigation into global Ryuk ransomware campaigns and associated Emotet and TrickBot malware. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agen...
IoT Security Regulation is on the Horizon
LONDON, UK – Internet of things IoT device security continues to worry the tech industry – however, experts believe that the right type of global regulation could be key for ensuring security standards. The question is when those regulatory efforts will be fleshed out. Ken Munro, with Pen Test...
Top UK Official Derides Huawei Claiming it has ‘Bad Security’
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A top official at the National Cyber Security Centre in the UK set his sights on Huawei, the telecom equipment giant, in an opening keynote session at the GSMA’s Mobile360 Security for 5G conference on Tuesday. Ian Levy, technical director at the agency, took the stage fo...
UK launches cyberstrategy with long-term relevance
Like most major global economies, the United Kingdom continues to place cybersecurity issues front and center. The National Cyber Security Strategy: 2016-2021 document—published by the UK Government and released nearly two years ago—describes the plan to make the UK secure and resilient in...
