Google Chrome is a very popular browser so it is worthwhile for the threat actors to keep poking away at it to find the vulnerabilities. The team a Google also keep looking and patching: Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022 (bleepingcomputer.com) Get Chrome patched now.
If you get a text from The Metropolitan Police it may not be scam
It will be worth checking out the text carefully as the Met is going to text about 70,000 victims of banking fraud, having arrested an East Londoner who is accused of running an international phone fraud: Police to text 70,000 victims in UK’s biggest anti-fraud operation – BBC News The …
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Stress – the classic social engineering tactic
Threat actors have to find ways of breaking down our cyber security training – that is where social engineering comes in. They want to find some way to get you to do what they want – this usually means exploiting your trust, but a bt of stress in there to …
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Just in case you thought you could relax about ransomware
Ransomware both the encryption attack and the exfiltrate/extortion attack are still probably your most serious cyber security risk. Here is some basic advice all of which you have implemented: Here is the latest double whammy ransomware attack being reported on in the tech news: Donut extortion group also targets victims …
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Surely people are not reusing passwords!
Even though there are warnings all over the internet about the risks of reusing passwords and the ease that threat actors can run credential stuffing attacks to exploit this negligent behaviour – people still reuse passwords: DraftKings denies platform breach, says about $300,000 stolen from compromised accounts – The Record …
