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According to Trend Micro research, trust has eroded among criminal interactions, leading to a switch to e-commerce platforms and communications via Discord, both to increase user anonymisation.

"This report highlights the threat intelligence we collect and analyze from global cybercriminal networks that enables us to alert, prepare and protect our corporate customers and partners," the company says. "This research helps us inform businesses early about emerging threats, such as Deepfake ransomware, AI bots, Access-as-a-Service and highly targeted SIM-swapping. A layered, risk-based response is vital for mitigating the risk posed by these and other increasingly popular threats."

The report claims law enforcement efforts are leaving an impact on the cybercrime underground. Global police entities have taken down a number of forums, and the remaining forums are currently experiencing persistent DDoS attacks and log-in problems, impacting their usefulness. Meanwhile the loss of trust has lead to the creation of DarkNet Trust, a website created to verify vendors and increase user anonymity. Other underground markets are launching new security measures, including direct buyer-to-vendor payments, multi-signatures for cryptocurrency transactions, encrypted messaging and a ban on JavaScript.

Zyxel announces the XS1930, a series of multi-gigabit smart managed switches designed to be an affordable and easy to manage network infrastructure upgrade for SMB customers.

The XS1930-10 and XS1930-12HP switches feature what the company claims is an industry first-- 5-colour LEDs providing at-a-glance port speed and information. Both are multi-gigabit switches with support for variable speeds, allowing them to address the data speed requirements of various applications and devices throughout the office. Management comes through either the Zyxel Nebula Cloud Management system or operation in standalone mode, and port speeds range from 100Mbps to 10Gbps over standard ethernet cable.

Cisco announces additions to the Cisco Designed portfolio aimed at helping SMB customers deal with the current coronavirus pandemic, with solutions helping with work from home, security and always-on business.

The first of such solutions is Webex Work, a complete cloud collaboration solution bringing together calling, meeting and messaging services in a single subscription. Cisco says pricing is competitive for small businesses, and such tools allow employees to remain connected while ensuring work moves forward. Meanwhile a new version of Cisco Business Dashboard offers network management through a streamlined user interface and zero-touch plug and play deployment, with hosting in either the cloud or on premises.

Australian researchers create an internet connection with speeds reaching up to 44.2 terabits pers second, a record achieved over 75km of glass fibre using a single optical chip.

Hailing from Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities, the researchers managed to create such a connection using a "micro-comb." According to the paper detailing the experiment, the micro-comb “generates very sharp and equidistant frequency lines in a tiny microphotonic chip.” In a few words, the micro-comb loops light around a ring to produce 80 beams at various infrared wavelengths. Each beam carries a stream of data, and since all the wavelengths of light are all correlated, the data streams could be "packed" tightly together using nearly all the available light spectrum.