It takes an average of just three steps for a threat actor to infiltrate a target cloud environment and get to its “crown jewel” assets, and as a result, vast numbers of organisations are now experiencing cloud security incidents, with at least 80% reporting a “severe” incident in the past 12 months. This is […]

With world-class research institutes in artificial intelligence (AI), Sweden keeps up with all the latest ideas – and sometimes even steps out ahead. But blue-sky research doesn’t always lead to practical solutions that can be used by industry. That’s where AI Sweden plays a key role.  An important first step in the development of […]

Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have warned of a new and potentially serious vulnerability affecting the pass-through authentication (PTA) hybrid identity authentication method used in Azure Active Directory (AD). PTA is one of three authentication options used for hybrid identities in Azure AD, the others being password-hash synchronisation (PHS) and identity federation. […]

Internal Cisco data leaked late last week by the China-based Yanluowang ransomware operation has been confirmed as stolen during a cyber attack earlier in 2022, but has insisted the leak poses no risk to its business, supply chain operations or customers. The attack took place in May, but Cisco initially disclosed it on 10 […]

US banking giant JP Morgan has acquired payments fintech Renovite Technologies to support its strategy to put more of its IT in the cloud. It was not too many years ago that large traditional banks showed a reluctance to move systems to the cloud, but today they are accelerating the process through the acquisition […]

The first half of 2022 saw a 65% reduction in the amount of money invested in UK fintechs as the global economy slows. However, the drop is exaggerated due to the unprecedented high growth experienced last year. A total of $9.6bn was invested in UK fintechs in the first six months of this year, […]

Eighteen months after a fire wreaked havoc at its Strasbourg datacentre campus, French infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider OVHcloud has opened a new €30m server farm on the site. The facility, known as SBG5, is the first to be built by following the principles of OVHcloud’s “hyper-resilience” plan, which it made public 50 days after the […]

Data sanitisation and erasure firm Blancco is working with UK charity The Turing Trust to support the development of digital skills and circular economy initiatives in African schools. Established in 2015, The Turing Trust provides IT resources and training to schools in a handful of Sub-Saharan African countries, including Liberia, South Sudan, Kenya, Ghana, […]

TA453, an Iran-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group, is going to increasingly complex lengths to compromise its targets, adopting a technique informally known as multi-persona impersonation (MPI) in the social engineering playbook that is used to convince targets to open their tainted emails. That is according to researchers at Proofpoint, who have coined the […]