Cybercrime

Academics and security professionals are warning businesses that certificates used to establish trust and privacy on the internet are being weaponised and sold to cyber criminals bundled with other services

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252459000/Machine-identities-for-sale-on-dark-web-business-warned

Researchers have uncovered clearer links between a North Korean hacking group and a cyber espionage campaign targeting government, defence, nuclear, energy and financial organisations around the world

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458723/Clearer-North-Korean-link-to-global-infrastructure-malware-campaign

Boards of many of the UK’s biggest firms must do more to be cyber aware, according to a government report.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458797/Cyber-awareness-of-UK-boards-found-wanting

Hackers have targeted an unnamed Polish bank by placing a malicious file in Google reCAPTCHA to lure victims into downloading banking malware.

Government-backed cyber security innovation centre is calling for innovators to address key challenges facing the cyber security industry, offering a year of bespoke support to scale quickly

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458537/London-cyber-security-innovation-centre-issues-open-invitation

Businesses urged to respond to research findings that the ready availability of hacking tools, wildfire spread of malware and proliferation of cryptocurrency mining has seen a 300-fold increase in social media-enabled cyber crimes in two years

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458334/Cyber-criminals-earn-3bn-a-year-exploiting-social-platforms

Action Fraud has warned Instagram users of an increasing number of fraudulent investment schemes being advertised on the app.

Young people played a central role in Safer Internet Day 2019, from leading sessions and speaking at our youth events, to creating new resources, sharing their pledges, educating their peers and engaging with policy makers.

https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/blog/young-people-met-government-and-uk-safer-internet-centre-representatives-safer-internet-day

At the close of 2018, we asked CW Security Think Tank contributors to name one thing predicted for 2018 that did not happen, one thing that was not predicted but did happen, and one thing that should happen in 2019 but probably will not

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Security-Think-Tank-Put-collaboration-on-2019-security-agenda

Nato supports collaboration and cooperation on cyber security as an organisation founded on the principle of collective defence, says representative