The Royal Mail had to close its Click and Drop website this week, as a security slip up allowed some customers access to information, they should not have been able to see. Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop • The Register Engineers solved the issue within …
Malicious Android smartphone apps
Here are a couple of the current examples of Android malware that could compromise your organisation, reported in the technical press this week. New SandStrike spyware infects Android devices via malicious VPN app (bleepingcomputer.com) Malicious Android apps with 1M+ installs found on Google Play (bleepingcomputer.com) They have different malicious intent …
Steal the code… Dropbox
Dropbox has admitted that 130 of its confidential private GitHub repositories were coped by a threat actor. Among the haul were secret APUI codes. They do reassure users that no user content, usernames or passwords were stolen. Well of course not. That is not the issue. Why bother stealing those …
…and put the blame on cyber security researchers
Here is a report from Bleeping Computers, looking at a data wiper malware attack that includes obvious clues pointing at well-known security researchers and Bleeping Computers claiming they are behind the operation (the author of the article was also included!). The destructive malware, Azov Ransomware is being distributed using pirated …
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I have quoted this from Nathalie Jimenez’s article on the BBC: Cyber-crimes are expected to cost the world $10.5tn (£9.3tn) by 2025, according to cyber-security research firm Cyber Ventures… On the current trajectory, small businesses will absorb most of the hit. They are three times more likely to be attacked …
