theguardian | August 26, 2020
New Zealand’s stock market has been interrupted by an apparent overseas cyber attack for the second day running. The Wellington-based NZX exchange went offline at 11.24am on Wednesday and although some connectivity was restored for investors, some trading was halted. The NZX said it had experienced “network connectivity issues” and that the NZX main board, NZX debt market and Fonterra shareholders market were placed on halt. However it then announced that those areas would resume trading with the rest of the market at 3pm on Wednesday.
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DATA SECURITY
MITRE Engenuity | March 17, 2021
Miter Engenuity will survey business cybersecurity items' capacity to identify the danger presented by the gatherings normally known as Sandworm and Wizard Spider, both of whom have utilized information encryption as a vital component of their attacks. Applications for assessment are accessible through May 28.
Examiners accept that Sandworm utilized information encryption to cause more than $10 billion in harm to industry in attacks with its NotPetya malware. The gathering is additionally generally associated with attacks that have closed down the Ukrainian electrical framework on various events. Wizard Spider has purportedly utilized information encryption to take more than $150 million through ransomware attacks.
The assessments will utilize ATT&CK®, a Miter-curated information base of foe strategies, methods, and techniques that depends on distributed danger revealing. ATT&CK is openly accessible and is utilized by digital safeguards in regions including account, medical services, energy, assembling, retail, and government to comprehend enemy conduct and tradecraft.
Miter Engenuity will assess each partaking merchant's capacity to recognize the dangers presented by Sandworm and Wizard Spider in two particular situations during the assessment. All outcomes will be delivered, and the organization will permit the general population to see them completely or sifted by enemy.
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Darktrace | April 16, 2021
Darktrace, a main self-sufficient digital protection AI organization, today reported that it is broadening its association with McLaren Racing and setting out on another sponsorship of the Arrow McLaren SP.
Interestingly, the Darktrace logo will include as an afterthought suspension of both the No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet and the No. 7 Vuse Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet, beginning with the season-opening race at Barber Motorsports Park on April eighteenth.
Darktrace's Cyber AI independently distinguishes, examines, and reacts to quick digital dangers continuously across different advanced conditions, including cloud-based programming and email. The innovation is utilized by McLaren's innovation and security groups to help shield against cutting-edge digital dangers.
About Darktrace
Darktrace is a main self-governing network safety AI organization and the maker of Autonomous Response innovation. It gives far-reaching, undertaking wide digital guard to more than 4,700 associations in more than 100 nations, securing the cloud, email, IoT, customary organizations, endpoints, and mechanical frameworks.
A self-learning innovation, Darktrace AI self-governing identifies, researches, and reacts to cutting-edge digital dangers, including insider danger, distant working dangers, ransomware, information misfortune, and production network weaknesses.
The organization has 1,500 workers internationally, with central command in Cambridge, UK. Consistently, Darktrace AI distinguishes a digital danger, keeping it from causing harm.
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