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Grim reading…Malware is growing, adware mutating, and sophisticated ‘nation state’ tools are being used by low-level hackers Security specialists Check Point has painted a fairly grim picture of the cyber security landscape in its latest ‘Cyber Attack Trends:...

WordPress security outfit Wordfence has flagged several attempts by attackers to upload ransomware that provides them with the ability to encrypt a WordPress website’s files. They dubbed the malware “EV ransomware”, due to the .ev extension that is added to the...

South Korean electronics giant LG is believed to have been infected with the WannaCry ransomware after IT staff failed to apply security patches to all its Windows PCs and servers. WannaCry infected several hundred thousand Windows machines within days of its release...

The Locky ransomware has returned in the form of two new strains, security researchers at Malwarebytes have warned. Locky was one of the three most widely distributed forms of malware in 2016, along with Cryptowall and Cerber. But although ransomware has boomed during...

Google has announced that it has slashed the cost of its SSD powered cloud storage services by up to 63 per cent. Local SSDs attached to the on-demand Google Compute Engine virtual machines will cost $0.080 per gigabyte (GB) per month in most parts of the US, with...

Apple has moved its iCloud services onto Google’s Cloud Platform, shifting away from its reliance on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud infrastructure. According to sources speaking to channel site CRN, Apple is spending between $400m and $600m on Google Cloud...

Mac malware is still a rare occurrence, so it’s no wonder that some of it can lurk, unnoticed for months, on random machines. The latest example falls more in the category of “potentially unwanted software” than outright “malware,” but it could easily be made to...

More than one-third of small and medium-sized businesses have experienced a ransomware attack in the last year, a new Malwarebytes report claims, and 22 percent of these impacted businesses had to cease operations immediately. Malwarebytes’ “Second Annual State of...

More than a quarter of all emails received (31 per cent) every day are still unsafe, new research has claimed. This is according to a report by Mimecast, which found there is still a huge amount of spam, but also malware, phishing, ransomware and other types of...

Newly released data from cyber insurance provider, CFC Underwriting, has revealed that the WannaCry cyber attack in May was the biggest source of cyber insurance enquiries for the first half of the year. In the four weeks following the attack, weekly enquiries...