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Cybercrime is biggest threat to small and medium-size firms ‘by far’

05

May

2017

The UK’s definition of an SME — a small to medium enterprise — is any business with up to 250 employees, but no upper floor on the financial threshold. Speaking at the Counter Terrorism Expo in London’s Olympia today, the Federation of Small Business’ Home Office and MoJ Policy Unit Chair Richard Parlour laid out just why cyber security is so critical for the sector.

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Financial cybercrime group abuses Windows app compatibility feature

05

May

2017

When Microsoft made it possible for enterprises to quickly resolve incompatibilities between their applications and new Windows versions, it didn’t intend to help malware authors as well. Yet, this feature is now abused by cybercriminals for stealthy and persistent malware infections.

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XPan, I am your father

24

Apr

2017

While we have previously written on the now infamous XPan ransomware family, some of it’s variants are still affecting users primarily located in Brazil. Harvesting victims via weakly protected RDP (remote desktop protocol) connections, criminals are manually installing the ransomware and encrypting any files which can be found on the system.

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