London, UK, September 24th, 2024 – We are thrilled to announce that The Cyber Helpline has emerged victorious at this year’s National Cyber Awards, securing three prestigious awards! For the fourth year in a row, we have been honored as the Not-for-Profit Cyber Award winner, alongside recognition for individual achievements, including the Alan Turing Award (Rory Innes) and the Cyber Student of the Year Award (Alex Hardy).

We're happy to announce two new Veracode Scan products: Veracode Scan for Eclipse and Veracode Scan for Visual Studio. Building on the success and adoption of Veracode Scan in Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, PyCharm, and Rider, we're releasing versions for Eclipse and Visual Studio. Now the power of Veracode’s outstandingly accurate Static Application Scanning is avaialble two of the most widely used and customer-requested IDE’s.

In the digital landscape, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into cybercriminal activities has marked the beginning of a new era of threats. The “machine war” has indeed commenced, with AI enhancing the scale and sophistication of cyberattacks. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in particular, have become more formidable with AI’s capabilities, presenting significant challenges for cybersecurity defenses.

Microsoft Copilot for Security is a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can help companies home in on credible cybersecurity threats amid an onslaught of noise. However, significant expertise is required to configure and operate it properly and avoid unnecessary costs. These are a few key takeaways from the webinar, "Getting Started with Microsoft Copilot for Security", presented by Dan Gravelle, Director of Global Solutions Architecture at Trustwave.

The public sector has faced a surge of cyber attacks in recent months, targeting state agencies, schools and local governments, severely affecting operations. Several recently released cyber industry reports show a steady or growing number of ransomware attacks so far in 2024. The examples below are just some of the cyber attacks against public sector organizations this past summer.

HTML smuggling techniques have been around for quite some time. A previous Trustwave SpiderLabs’ blog discussed its use in distributing malware by storing binaries in immutable blob data within JavaScript code that gets decoded on the client-side browser, eventually delivering the payload.