Wannacry
Acronis offers free Ransomware Protection!
Acronis, a Switzerland based Cloud Software Company offering backups and disaster recovery related software has announced on an official note that it is offering a Free Ransomware Protection to the corporate world which is supported by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Active Protection technology. The company claims that it’s free, battle-tested defense against ransomware has […]
North Korea denies US accusations of WannaCry Ransomware Attack!
North Korea issued a press statement on Thursday denying US accusations that it was behind the WannaCry Ransomware Cyber Attack. Moreover, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that the allegations put forth by White House were absurd, baseless and were more of provocative nature containing ulterior motives. On December 18, 2017, US Homeland […]
Trump admin praises Microsoft and Facebook for disabling North Korean Cyber Threats
Facebook and Microsoft received utmost praise from the Trump administration for disabling a majority of Cyber Threats generated from/by North Korea since the beginning of 2017. White House Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert was the official who disclosed this fact to the American media on behalf of White House administration on Tuesday and asked both […]
Most dangerous Cyber Security Threats of 2018!
The year 2017 was terrible for the digital world as it witnessed large-scale cyber attacks such as WannaCry (May’17) and NotPetya (June’17) on renowned firms such as NHS and Equifax. Although, the later incident was more of a data breach affecting a whopping 143 million Americans it still qualifies as a perfect example to prove […]
NHS to spend £20 million to raise its defense against Cyber Attacks
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is all set to spend £20 million on a Central cybersecurity unit that will use the funds in hiring ethical hackers to probe for vulnerabilities in the healthcare’s IT Infrastructure. As the National Audit Office has concluded last month that the WannaCry attack could have been prevented by basic IT […]
North Korea uses Fall Chill malware to cyber attack US Government!
The Government of United States has issued a public statement saying that “FallChill” malware is being used by North Korea to cyber attack critical infrastructure of United States. The statement is actually meant to be an alert jointly issued by FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In June this year, DHS already issued a […]
SophosLabs 2018 Malware report says that no OS Platform is safe from Ransomware attacks
UK based Cyber Security firm SophosLabs has released a malware forecast report which says that no OS platform is safe from ransomware related cyber attacks. Here, readers of Cybersecurity Insiders have to notify a fact that the SophosLabs 2018 Malware Forecast report was compiled based on the data collected from Sophos customers located worldwide during […]
North Korea threatens the UK for blaming Kim Jong for Wannacry Cyber Attack!
Last week, UK government released a press statement holding responsible North Korean leader Kim Jong UN for the Wannacry ransomware attack which crippled NHS hospital group for weeks. The statement was released by Britain’s security Minister Ben Wallace and strongly indicted Pyongyang for the ransomware spread. Today North Korea strongly responded to the claims saying […]
NHS was warned to patch systems to protect against Cyber Attack
A National Audit Office( NAO) investigation into May 2017 Wannacry Outbreak on NHS has revealed that the healthcare network was warned in time to patch systems to protect against Cyber Attack. It is said that NHS Digital- the health service’s data and IT body issued this alert in April this year. But the alert was […]
Britain is being hit by at least two state-funded cyber attacks per day
Jeremy Fleming, the head of GCHQ has disclosed that the digital infrastructure of public and privately owned companies in Britain is being hit by at least two state-funded cyber attacks on a daily note. However, Fleming expects that the recent injection of cash by the British government to bolster National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) will […]
