Asokan is a U.K.-based senior correspondent for Information Security Media Group's global news desk. She previously worked with IDG and other publications, reporting on developments in technology, minority rights and education.
Parliament IT systems in two East European capitals were disrupted Thursday. The Poland Senate said a distributed denial-of-service attack partially originated from inside Russia. In Slovakia, a Parliament speaker postponed voting after telling lawmakers that vote-counting systems were not working.
The Department of Homeland Security released a set of cybersecurity practices for critical infrastructure containing basic measures such as requiring multifactor authentication and disabling AutoRun. The word "voluntary" was in heavy rotation during the Thursday rollout.
The problem of zero-day exploits used by advanced spyware makers such as NSO Group is an urgent problem requiring government intervention, a Google cybersecurity executive told the European Parliament committee investigating member nations' use of the Pegasus spy app.
Artificial intelligence-driven technology purporting to recognize human emotional states "may not work yet, or indeed ever," said U.K. Deputy Information Commissioner Stephen Bonner. The office predicts greater commercial use of behavioral analysis in products over the next two to three years.
An inquiry into European Union countries' use of Pegasus spyware is running into national opposition, said Jeroen Lenaers, head of the investigative committee. Pegasus can invoke national security sensitivities, Lenaers acknowledged, but said the inquiry is concentrated on questions of law.
The U.K. Information Commissioner levied a nearly $5 million fine against Interserve Group Limited for its lack of security protections in the run-up to a 2020 ransomware attack. The firm kept employee data on servers running obsolete versions of Windows and used outdated antivirus software.
Europe faces an annual investment gap of 1.75 billion euros in the cybersecurity industry compared to the United States, warn the European Commission and the European Investment Bank. They propose a new fund dubbed the European Cybersecurity Investment Platform to foster domestic industry growth.
Hacking capabilities once reserved for nation-states are filtering down to the level of crimeware, warns Kaspersky researcher Sergey Lozhkin. Darknet forums are filled with self-taught hackers selling advanced capabilities for a good price, he says.
A new round of Pegasus infections among journalists and a human rights activist is sending shock waves into Mexican politics as the attorney general's office says it is investigating the previous presidential administration's purchase of the smartphone spy app.
Lloyd's of London says it has fully restored network services and that an investigation uncovered no evidence of a compromise. The insurance and reinsurance marketplace giant took systems offline last week after detecting what it called "suspicious activity."
European lawmakers advanced legislation for a continentwide framework for digital identity after agreeing to provisions assuring online anonymity and local storage of digital documents. The European Commission first proposed in 2021 a framework for a digital identity accepted in all member states.
Lloyd's of London is probing a possible cybersecurity incident that led it to yank some systems offline. Details are scarce at the moment, including whether the incident is malicious or involves ransomware and who may have instigated the incident.
An unidentified hacking group with suspected Chinese ties is targeting critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia as part of a cyberespionage campaign to exfiltrate information about the victims' SCADA systems, says a report by security firm Symantec.
A newly uncovered banking Trojan dubbed Vultur is targeting Android users through screen recording to capture the victims' banking credentials, a new report by security firm ThreatFabric says.
A new card stealer malware campaign that loads JavaScript malware from blocked domain lists to evade detection is targeting e-commerce sites that run Adobe's Magento, software security firm Sucuri reports.
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