CyberSecure Specialist

What if your organization is hit by a cyberattack that is attributed to a nation state? Would your insurance cover the costs of the attack? As cyber-insurance is, and will continue to be, a budget item for organizations looking to protect themselves from the escalating and unforeseen consequences of cyberattacks, one important question arises – will an organization’s cyber-insurance policy cover the damage caused by an attack that was attributed to a nation state? This…

Focused mostly on Asia, this new cyberespionage group uses undocumented tools, including steganographically extracting PowerShell payloads from PNG files ESET researchers recently found targeted attacks that used undocumented tools against various high-profile companies and local governments mostly in Asia. These attacks were conducted by a previously unknown espionage group that we have named Worok and that has been active since at least 2020. Worok’s toolset includes a C++ loader CLRLoad, a PowerShell backdoor PowHeartBeat, and…

Gather around, folks, to learn about some of the ghastliest tricks used by criminals online and how you can avoid security horrors this Halloween and beyond Trick or treat, it is Halloween! The day has come when children knock on your door dressed in scary costumes and ask for a treat. Be ready…or a spooky spell will be cast upon you! The real danger, however, doesn’t knock on the door. Hackers, imposters and scammers of…

by Paul Ducklin Imagine that you’d spoken in what you thought was total confidence to a psychotherapist, but the contents of your sessions had been saved for posterity, along with precise personal identification details such as your unique national ID number, and perhaps including additional information such as notes about your relationship with your family… …and then, as if that were not bad enough, imagine that the words you’d never expected to be typed in…