A South Africa-based threat actor known as Automated Libra has been observed adopting increasingly sophisticated techniques to conduct a widespread freejacking campaign against various public cloud services. Freejacking is the act of using free or time-limited access to public cloud resources – such as introductory trial offers – to perform illicit cryptomining. The campaign […]

Ransomware operators are exploiting Fortinet network devices that remain vulnerable to a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, according to research publicly released today by eSentire’s Threat Research Unit (TRU). Fortinet first disclosed the vulnerability in question – tracked as CVE-2022-40684 – on 10 October 2022. It affects FortiOS, FortiProxy and FortiSwitchManager, which, if successfully exploited, […]

Staffers at the UK’s Guardian newspaper have been informed that their offices will remain shut for at least a month, following the 20 December 2022 suspected ransomware attack on the media organisation’s systems. According to an internal notice seen by media sector publication Press Gazette, Guardian Media Group (GMG) chief executive Anna Bateson said […]

There were no bank robberies in Denmark last year as a result of better security and the fact that the banks in the largely cashless society don’t hold large amounts of cash on-premise. But the figures from Danish bank association Finans Danmark also revealed that online banking fraud has increased as criminals change their […]

The career of Rajesh Naidu, chief architect and head of data management and data governance at Expedia Group, mirrors the way the pendulum of IT architecture has swung from packaged applications to data centricity. Looking at the trends in enterprise architecture, he says: “Enterprise architecture has definitely had its share of being in vogue and […]

Are we entering a new space race? In a manner of speaking, it could be argued we’re already in that race, as the barriers to launching satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) become lower, and cyber criminals subsequently identify a new source of critical information to disrupt, intercept, utilise or even take over. In […]

Consultancy group McKinsey & Co announced 14 top trends in tech in 2022, stating: “Technology continues to be a primary catalyst for change in the world.” It noted that business executives can “plan ahead better by tracking the development of new technologies, anticipating how companies might use them, and understanding the factors that affect […]

Half of non-banking businesses believe that banking as a service (BaaS) will eventually replace traditional banking, with the cost-of-living crisis hastening this, as consumers look for alternative sources of financial services. A survey of 1,000 businesses in the UK and Benelux region found that 51% expect BaaS to spell the end of traditional banking, […]

St Helens Borough Council has selected Unit4 enterprise applications technologies to advance its digital transformation plans. The council is replacing an in-house system with software-as-a-service enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial planning and analysis software. They are also using some invoice capture software from Proactis. Asad Mushtaq, director of finance at St Helens Council, […]

India-based IT services supplier Mphasis is creating 1,000 tech jobs in West Yorkshire as part of an operating model which integrates into the university network and enables flexible working. Increasing demand for locally provided IT services has driven the company’s strategy to reduce the proportion of its services delivered to Europe from India, leading […]