Cybercrime

The annual Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report has been released with an update on progress in the cyber security arena for UK businesses.

A bank in Europe was the target of a huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that sent to its networking gear a flood of 809 million packets per second (PPS).

Since the start of the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown more than £16 million in online shopping fraud has been reported to Action Fraud.

Brits are understandably more worried about the NHS than personal cyber security

CVE-2020-3347 bug enables cyber criminals to steal meeting records from within Cisco’s Webex service

Embattled video-conferencing provider Zoom backtracks on previous refusals to provide end-to-end encryption to free users

Organised criminal campaign exploited Adobe, Oxford University and Samsung web domains to trick users into giving up their passwords

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252484788/Check-Point-uncovers-targeted-Microsoft-Office-365-phishing-campaign

Another twisty tale from the cyber sleuths at Check Point today, June 18, with news of a “very sophisticated, malicious” attack on Microsoft users in multiple countries

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/18/genius-hackers-hijack-oxford-university-tech-for-masterpiece-attack-on-microsoft-users/#3d49e4e4920d

Amazon says its online cloud, which provides the infrastructure on which many websites rely, has fended off the largest DDoS attack in history.

Representatives left unable to place orders after company’s back-end systems went offline over a week ago