Weekly Threat Report 27th May 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 27 May 2022
Ransomware hits Somerset County and now it is 1977!
Somerset County, in New Jersey has been hit with a ransomware attack that disrupted most of their services – forcing them to switch to temporary Gmail accounts to carry on business. That is not a bad response to an attack that hits your communications – we have a similar plan …
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Stolen University credentials for sale
The FBI have issued an advisory about university and college credentials being offered for sale across a range of cyber crime platforms. Compromised US Academic Credentials Identified Across Various Public and Dark Web Forums (ic3.gov) This follows a steady increase over the past months of Universities and College being the …
I had to run this one at a weekend – a ransomware gang that demands good deeds not cryptocurrency – have a read
This is not a joke – it is not April 1. The GoodWill ransomware group, demands such good deeds as donating blankets to people on the street or taking disserving children to fast food restaurants as a treat! To prove the victims have carried out their good deeds they must …
OSINT – Do you know what it is?
OSINT = Open Source Intelligence. That is that information that a threat actor can gather about you and your organisation, from open source resources – there is no need to hack you if you leave the information lying around. When I was studying, the weeks we covered OSINT, were some …
