Tag: ethical hacking
Cybercriminals are now grooming US and UK teens
By adopting such Nineteenth-Century criminal grooming methods to the online world of the Twenty-First Century, today’s threat actors are effectively criminalizing an entire generation not to pick pockets but to rifle fat online crypto wallets instead. When the media reports that a nineteen-year-old hacker has been arrested at his parent’s house for a major hack, such as the one that recently occurred at Transport for London (TfL), the sinister cybercriminals who may have orchestrated the cyber-attack doubtless breathe a sigh of relief. “What the police should be asking in a case like is who has been grooming the teenage hacker and for how many years?” says Fraser Hay, CEO and co-founder of one-year-old UK start-up The Hacking Games, whose aim is to use online gaming, TV and other media to encourage teenagers away from a life of online crime and towards careers in ethical hacking.
Newsquest Media Group Discloses Cyberattack – December 15th
The UK's Newsquest Media Group reported a cyberattack that disrupted the company's websites and apps to the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Monday, December 11th. The UK media company with over 250 local news sites' stated that the series of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks disrupted the reading experience of an estimated 48 million monthly readers.