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Aflac could be the latest US insurance giant hit by a Scattered Spider cyberattack
Insurance giant AFLAC confirms it has been hit with a cyberattack The attack looks to have been by notorious Scattered Spider group Increasingly infamous group targeted multiple UK retailers earlier in 2025 AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company), has confirmed in a statement it has suffered a cyber ‘incident’ in…
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Windows 11 migration shows surprising surge for some businesses – but for once, desktop is leading the way
Desktop shipments to enterprises are up 22%, accounting for 17% of enterprise PC sales, report claims Consumers on the whole are less keen to upgrade, with just a 9% rise The market could slow down or even contract again next year With the official Windows 10 end of life set…
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Company owned smartphones or BYOD? What you need to know
Now more than ever, employers are turning to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies in the workplace, largely due to employees showing interest in saying goodbye to their company-issued phones and leadership looking to increase security measures and cut costs. BYOD adoption rates are increasing year-over-year, with a recent survey…
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Russian hackers target Gmail passwords to crack down on international critics
International critics of Russia and academics have received phishing emails Slow rapport building with fake US State Department teams Victims are tricked into sharing Google app-specific passwords Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has shared details of a new threat actor tracked as UNC6293, believed to be a Russian state-sponsored group,…
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This mega DDoS attack broke all records – huge 37.4TB bombardment in 45 seconds against a single victim is the largest ever recorded
Huge 38TB DDoS attack targeted a hosting provider Cloudflare’s DDoS protection kicked in and blocked the attack This was the largest DDoS attack ever recorded Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks usually use a network of compromised devices to bombard a server with an unusually large amount of data in order to render…
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Scammers are calling us less, but the financial losses keep climbing
Believe it or not, there’s been a massive reduction in scam robocalls over the past few years. According to according to stats we gathered across millions of data points, scam calls are down roughly 75% since the Fall of 2021– from more than 2 billion every month to roughly 500…
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