The number of successfully executed cyberattacks against businesses in the United Kingdom has doubled in the last five years, as per new research by Beaming.

Mozi is evolved from the source code of several known malware families – Gafgyt, Mirai and IoT Reaper – to form a peer-to-peer botnet capable of DDoS attacks, data exfiltration, and command execution.

The sudden switch to remote working left companies in a “mad scramble for security”, suggests a new report from cybersecurity firm Nexor.

20 years ago, a student in the Philippines unleashed a computer virus that not only brought millions of computers to a halt, but became a catalyst for the multi-billion dollar ransomware industry.

Cybercrime has evolved and accelerated at a disturbing rate in recent years, from its emergence as a new phenomenon to the rapid formation of a global marketplace of professional cybercrime services.

The US was attacked most frequently by actors from Russia (22 percent), Ukraine (12 percent) and China (9 percent), and almost all attacks (99 per cent) were carried out by bots.

The trojan is capable of deploying DDOS attacks, taking screenshots, stealing Firefox cookies and saved passwords, implementing a keylogger, executing scripts and taking control of Bitcoin wallets.

In the aftermath of major political incidents, nation-state actors are already under orders to conduct campaigns aimed at countering the incident, spreading disinformation or straightforward revenge.

According to a new report from Positive Technologies, 97 percent of companies with at least 1,000 employees show signs of suspicious network activity.