An original Slovak cybersecurity game CyberGame has attracted students, teachers as well as professionals from various fields. After two weeks, more than seven hundred and seventy participants (772) have been registered. At least one task has already been solved by more than three hundred men and seventeen women. According to the registration form, three hundred…
Europe lacks 168 thousand cybersecurity professionals[1]. Slovakia estimates the current need of 10 thousand professionals in all segments and various specializations. Demand has increased worldwide in the last two years. Teleworking and remote learning, the take-off of cloud and virtual technologies and the aggressive increase in cybercrime have contributed to this need. “Technologies, legislation and…
The National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT warns against the use of suspicious websites the purpose of which is to conduct DDoS attacks via a web browser targeting different websites. In connection with the war in Ukraine, in the Slovak cyberspace there have been calls for distributed attacks on websites in Russia, using a simple web…
The National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT warns against a large-scale phishing email campaign exploiting the ZOHO Assist remote access service to gain an unauthorised access to the system. The campaign has been running since 8 January 2022 and messages have been addressed to both private and company email addresses. In today’s known cases, the attacker…
Large multinational companies did not avoid heavy fines. Thousands of school websites were disconnected due to a ransomware threat and the University in Japan lost a large amount of data due to backup error. Data leaks dominated in that week and a new ransomware group called Night Sky was also revealed. Fines for Facebook and…
The Emotet infrastructure is gradually gaining strength and cooperation with the Trickbot botnet is also repeated. Security forces managed to arrest three cybercriminals, one sentenced; and a large database from the British security forces was donated to the Password Control Service Have I been Pwned. Database in Ghana exposed Due to misconfiguration, Ghana’s National Service…
The National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT warns of the ongoing campaign aimed at biomedical and biotech companies. The international platform for cooperation of biochemists BIO-ISAC released an advisory regarding the long-term APT campaign called Tardigrade. The attacks are targeting biomedical companies and the biotech manufacturing sector. Attackers use a new type of malware from the…
The National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT warns against a critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. The vulnerability allows that any user account can become an administrator one without authorization. On 22 November 2021, a security researcher publicly disclosed the information and an exploit (a code representing a guide…
The National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT warns against the resumption of activities of a recently dismantled EMOTET botnet. Since we experienced incidents related to EMOTET botnet also in Slovakia in the past, it is very likely to expect this botnet to reappear in the Slovak cyberspace as well. What is EMOTET? EMOTET malware is considered…
One ransomware gang ends, while another one apologises to the royal family. Two independent groups managed to break the protection of PlayStation 5 console on the same day and Microsoft patched a zero-day vulnerability. Successful hacking contest The hacking contest Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own conducted in Texas City of Austin led to detection of 61…
