This not not good reading – an increase in ransomware attacks: March 2023 broke ransomware attack records with 459 incidents (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway is – you need a plan for ransomware! If you’d like a little help with this have a look at my recent mini-series on ransomware: Ransomware – …
Capita – data was stolen
This is a follow-up to an earlier story I wrote about a cyber security incident at Capita – the UK’s largest outsourcing company. An attack that is believed to have started with compromised credentials: Capita confirms hackers stole data in recent cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this is that credential …
Pegasus: You do not need to click on anything…
It is a while since I have written anything about the cyber mercenaries the NSO Group and their Pegasus software. Pegasus is commercially available spyware that the Israeli company will sell to approved governments and law enforcement agencies – although the software has ended up on the phones of various …
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CISA security advisories
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has joined with the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI and US National Security Agency (NSA) to issue a security advisory about vulnerabilities in Cisco devices: APT28 Exploits Known Vulnerability To Carry Out Reconnaissance and Deploy Malware on Cisco Routers | …
NCSC report on commercial cyber attacks
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a report looking at the increase in commercial cyber tools and services. The threat from commercial cyber proliferation – NCSC.GOV.UK It looks at how easy it is now for relatively low skilled threat actors to access sophisticated malware and deploy these attack …
