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Financial Services Targeted, Work from Home to be Blamed

The cybersecurity posture of organizations was put to test with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The financial sector has been constantly targeted by cybercriminals and the trend continues. According to a recent report, attackers targeted security gaps at firms in the financial services sector as the majority of the workforce had to shift to work from home. Blame work from home The report, published by the international Financial Security Board (FSB), states that work from home conditions accelerated the adoption of new technologies and reliance on third-party service providers. As a result of the pandemic, financial services moved to

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Financial Services Targeted, Work from Home to be Blamed

The cybersecurity posture of organizations was put to test with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The financial sector has been constantly targeted by cybercriminals and the trend continues. According to a recent report, attackers targeted security gaps at firms in the financial services sector as the majority of the workforce had to shift to work from home. Blame work from home The report, published by the international Financial Security Board (FSB), states that work from home conditions accelerated the adoption of new technologies and reliance on third-party service providers. As a result of the pandemic, financial services moved to

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Apache Log4J2 Vulnerability

A new critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j2, a Java-based logging tool, was disclosed on 10 December 2021. There is no known proof-of-concept

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Glupteba Disrupted by Google

In December 2021, Google took action to disrupt the Glupteba botnet, a sophisticated botnet which targets Windows machines and protects itself using blockchain technology.

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