On a month-by-month basis, recorded ransomware attacks dropped by 32% in March 2025, to 600 in total, according to NCC Group’s latest monthly Threat Pulse data, but the decline appears to be very much a red herring, and likely the result of large, one-off events in previous months that yielded multiple victims, such as Clop/Cl0p’s…
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The year 2024 threw up another diverse crop of stories in the world of cyber security, with much to pay attention to, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), which continued to dominate the headlines. This year, we steer away from AI fear, uncertainty and doubt to focus on some of the other big…
Ahead of Apple’s iOS 18 beta 2 release early this week, the company announced it doesn’t plan to bring Apple Intelligence and certain other iOS 18 features to Europe due to regulatory fears. In a statement issued at the time, Apple said: “We are concerned that the interoperability requirements of the DMA could force us…
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Users of the Dropbox Sign document-signing service – until recently known as HelloSign – have been alerted to a data breach affecting their information after an undisclosed threat actor hacked into its systems. Dropbox first became aware that someone had attained unauthorised access to the Dropbox Sign production environment on 24 April – suggesting they…
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Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have all moved to patch a critical zero-day flaw affecting their browsers and potentially linked to the dissemination of malicious commercial spyware. The vulnerability in question has been assigned the designation CVE-2023-4863. It is a heap-based buffer overflow flaw that enables a remote attacker to perform an out-of-bounds memory write via…
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