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‘Silent Partners’ – organised crime’s profitable collaboration with sanctioned regimes

Articles / China, Due Diligence, Global Threats, Organised crime, Ransomware, Russia, Sanctions, United Kingdom, USA / 10/2023

Three decades after the conclusion of Cold War 1.0, the global stage is witnessing an unsettling revival of Cold War dynamics and tensions. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 was supposed to mark the start of a new era. However, relations between the United States of America, Russia, China, Ukraine, Iran, North Korea, [...]

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Business Risk Update

Articles, KCS Group Europe News, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Cyber Security, Cybercrime, DueDiligence, Ransomware, Ukraine-Russia relations / 05/2022

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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Apps for everything: where we should draw a line

Articles / apps, Ransomware, Technology / 09/2018

We have entered an era characterized by digital addiction. Our lives are now tied to technology; everything can be controlled by apps on a phone. Since technology has acquired such a dominant role today, ranging from the use of social media to communicate to asking Alexa to turn on the lights, we should think more

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Russia: a difficult bear to lure

Articles / Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, Dark Web Monitoring, Fake News, IT Security, Penetration Testing, Ransomware, Reputational Risk Management, Russia / 05/2018

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

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The cyber threat: a matter of compliance

Articles / Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, IT Security, Ransomware / 03/2018

2018 is the year of cyber. In spring two important pieces of EU legislation will come into force: the Network Information System (NIS) Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Failure to comply with the requirements will impose heavy fines on businesses. Therefore, the government is stepping up against the cyber threat in legal

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Play Up, Play Up, And Play The Great Game

Articles / Brazil, China, Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, Dark Web Monitoring, FIFA, Ransomware / 09/2017

The drones of today can be applied to many purposes. Surveillance footage of a suspected terrorist hideout? Certainly. Delivery of online shopping purchases? If you like. Finding out whether the big game formation will be 4-4-2 again? Hang about… At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, headlines were briefly made when the French national team

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Hide and Seek

Articles / Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, IT Security, Ransomware / 07/2017

It has been well reported that the human factor is often the weakest link in cyber security. Even the most advanced systems are susceptible to human error. According to Kaspersky, which utilised the B2B international market research company to scrutinise 5,000 companies across the globe, the results stated that “Fifty-two percent of businesses admit that

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The Ballooning Cost of Cybercrime

Articles / Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, Ransomware / 05/2017

The rise of cybercrime is the biggest challenge facing legal firms today. The problem is at its core very simple: as revealed by an American Bar Association’s (ABA) Legal Technology Survey, about half of firms said they had no response plan in place to address a cybersecurity breach. A variety of reports have predicted that

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‘Silent Partners’ – organised crime’s profitable collaboration with sanctioned regimes

Business Risk Update

Apps for everything: where we should draw a line

Russia: a difficult bear to lure

The cyber threat: a matter of compliance

Play Up, Play Up, And Play The Great Game

Hide and Seek

The Ballooning Cost of Cybercrime

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