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Infosecurity Europe is taking place at ExCeL London from 20-22 June 2023 and Help Net Security is on site. The first gallery is available here, and the second gallery is here.

Infosecurity Europe 2023 is taking place in London this week, and this video provides a closer look at this year’s event. The post Infosecurity Europe 2023 video walkthrough appeared first on Help...

Infosecurity Europe 2023 is taking place at ExCeL London from 20-22 June 2023 and Help Net Security is on site. The first gallery is available here. Here’s a closer look at the conference...

Infosecurity Europe is taking place at ExCeL London from 20-22 June 2023 and Help Net Security is on site. Here’s a closer look at the conference featuring: Island, Crowdstrike, Panorays,...

European commissioner Thierry Breton wants Huawei and ZTE barred throughout the EU, and revealed plans to remove kit made by the Chinese telecom vendors from the Commission's internal networks. There are concerns that backdoors in Huawei equipment could allow China to spy on foreign nations, given Chinese law requires local businesses to share info with Beijing.

What if the enterprise had complete control over the browser? What would it do for security, productivity, for work itself? Ari Yablok, Head Of Brand at Island, invites you to visit Island at Infosecurity Europe 2023 to learn more.

In Germany alone, forced verification grew by 1500% as a proportion of all fraud cases, from 0.3% in the full year 2022 to 5% of all fraud in Q1 2023. In Great Britain and Europe, as well as in North America, the proportion of deepfakes among all fraud cases grew considerably from 2022 to Q1 2023.

DDoS attacks appear to reflect major geo-political challenges and social tensions and have become an increasingly significant part in the hybrid warfare arsenal, according to Arelion. Conversely, in the rest of the world, researchers observed lower Asia-US DDoS activity and fewer DDoS attacks to and from South America in 2022.

A previously undetected advanced persistent threat actor dubbed Red Stinger has been linked to attacks targeting Eastern Europe since 2020. Red Stinger overlaps with a threat cluster Kaspersky revealed under the name Bad Magic last month as having targeted government, agriculture, and transportation organizations located in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea last year.

Researchers are seeing a rise in attacks spreading the EvilExtractor data theft tool, used to steal users' sensitive data in Europe and the U.S. EvilExtractor is sold by a company named Kodex for $59/month, featuring seven attack modules, including ransomware, credential extraction, and Windows Defender bypassing. While marketed as a legitimate tool, BleepingComputer was told that EvilExtractor is primarily promoted to threat actors on hacking forums.