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‘Bronze President’ is not just another nickname for Donald Trump. It is a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that has historically operated in the South Asian region, working across Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Burma (Myanmar), to gather sensitive information of interest to Beijing in its own backyard. But there are signs that the group’s targets are
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Welcome to the latest edition of ‘Business Risk Update’ – specifically for our clients and partners to provide a snapshot of latest news and articles from the business. The war in Ukraine has been raging for over two months and, despite heroic Ukrainian resistance, there is no end in sight. The grimmest predictions for the
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Is the threat picture irrevocably changing? That’s the question posed by Director of MI5, Ken McCallum, in his second yearly annual threat update recently. Tellingly, ‘disruptive threats’ from states – defined by McCallum as ‘less visible’ when compared to the typical terrorist atrocities – are now put on a par with the latter – and
Public Enemies No. 1, 2, 3… Read More »
Research suggests that up to 90% of Small and Medium sized companies in France, Spain, Germany and Italy are hit by a cyber-attack at least once a year. The impacts and consequences are dependent on the type of attack; however, Business Email Compromise and Ransomware attacks are thought to make up a large proportion of
The Severity of Cyber Contagion Read More »
Back in 2015, a disgruntled employee of the supermarket group Morrisons was given an eight-year sentence for leaking the payroll data of roughly 100,000 employees online and to newspapers. It was ruled that Andrew Skelton clearly had an axe to grind with Morrisons when he leaked the sensitive data of those 100,000 employees. Five years
Cyber Wellbeing: a corporate necessity? Read More »
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Hacked off: the rise of ransoms for ransomware Read More »
The laziness of hackers is making them smarter. Technological advance is offering new techniques to malign actors and honeypots provide the opportunity to observe how hackers operate. In new types of attack the “dirty work” is carried out by the machine drastically cutting human involvement and time. What it is worrying is not only that
Russia: a difficult bear to lure Read More »
News comes that in recent days, the UK launched a large-scale cyber-attack on Islamic State designed to “hinder and suppress” the group’s ability to co-ordinate and spread their words. While one might find it strange for a sovereign government to openly admit to this kind of provocation, the specific dynamics surrounding IS at least make
Cybersecurity with Donald Rumsfeld: where are your unknown unknowns? Read More »
The closing down of the law firm Mossack Fonseca is only few days away. The firm has in fact announced that it will terminate its operations at the end of the month, after more than 40 years of service. The decision came after irreparable damage was inflicted on the firm as a result of the
Is your data secure? Mossack Fonseca, a lesson learnt Read More »