As pressure on public and private sector organisations grows to protect sensitive data more effectively, the chorus of vendors promising that their security solutions can just be plugged in and pro ... Read More

The “S” in HTTPS stands for “Secure” and infers that information exchanged between a browser and a website is not accessible to third parties. However, there are a few ways ... Read More

"Be it cloud, mobile or email, no environment is immune to cyber attacks. In addition, threats such as targeted Ransomware attacks, DNS attacks and Cryptominers will continue to be relevant in 2019 ... Read More

Cloud Atlas, an advanced persistent threat (APT), also known as Inception, has updated its attack arsenal with new tools which allow it to avoid detection through standard Indicators of Compromise. ... Read More

Users of QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices have been warned that a new ransomware strain is being used in the wild to infect and encrypt documents. Originally discovered by reports f ... Read More

Just months after WhatsApp confirmed that it had been hacked by bad actors who installed spyware on an unknown number of people's smartphones, Check Point Software has identified flaws in the ... Read More

WannaLocker, WannaCry’s mobile cousin, just evolved into something even more dangerous. Avast researchers have reported malware that combines WannaCry's user interface with new spyware, a ban ... Read More

Marcus Hutchins, the white hat who found the kill switch for 2017's WannaCry ransomware outbreak, has pled guilty to two charges related to writing the UPAS Kit and Kronos malware. Sentencing for i ... Read More

This article, the first in a short series, provides insights from MWR’s research, threat intelligence and investigations on cyber statecraft, beginning with Russia.

Are we at (cyber) ... Read More

Part two of our cyber war series provides insights from MWR’s research, threat intelligence and investigations on cyber statecraft, focusing on Sino-US relations.

To say we are witnes ... Read More

Part three of our cyber war series provides insights from MWR’s research, threat intelligence and investigations on cyber statecraft, focusing on North Korea.

In the past six years, N ... Read More

Part four of our cyber war series provides insights from MWR’s research, threat intelligence and investigations on cyber statecraft, focusing on Iran.

Since the United States withdraw ... Read More

When the word ‘hacker’ springs to mind, most of us get a mental image of an anonymous, hooded figure, bent over a computer in some dark recess of the Web. However, not all hackers are b ... Read More