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EUROPE
Europe endures more cyberattacks from within its own
geographic region than any other part of the world,
according to new analysis by F5 Labs.
The discovery was made after studying attack traffic
destined for European IP addresses from December 1
2018 to March 1 2019 and comparing trends with the
United States, Canada and Australia.
The systems deployed in Europe are targeted by IPs all
over the world. By studying a global heatmap, F5 Labs
discovered that the source countries of European attacks
were akin to Australia and Canada, and different from
the US (as the US receives far fewer attacks from
European IPs than Europe).
GLOBAL
Asco, one of the world’s largest
suppliers of airplane parts, announced
it had quarantined its systems and
stopped activity at its sites in Belgium, Canada,
the US and Germany after a large-scale
ransomware attack.
The attack caused serious disruption to all of
the business’ activities and impacted available
communication means. In a statement, the
business said: “Together with the relevant
authorities, forensic and technical IT experts, our teams have
taken control over the incident and are committed to reduce the
consequent impact on the business activities.”
It added that it was taking an approach of ‘extreme caution’ as it could
not accept an impact on the security of its systems.
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