Weekly Threat Report 11 March 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report
TLS certificates are what internet trust is built on
Russia has created it’s own TLS certificate organisation and has started issuing these security and trust certificates to Russian sites, who can no longer access issuing authorities outside of the country, because of sanctions. Moscow to issue TLS certificates to Russian websites • The Register
Following a break for Christmas ransomware is on the rise
Just in case you have forgotten that ransomware poses, probably the biggest threat to your organisation (UK Gov, 2021) – here is some tracking of ransomware activity by Adam Janofsky at The Record: Ransomware tracker: the latest figures [March 2022] – The Record by Recorded Future References UK Gov (2021) …
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BNP Paribas take strong measures against a possible insider threat
EXCLUSIVE BNP Paribas bars Russia-based staff from computer systems as cyber attack fears grow | Reuters This is a worrying, but understandable, step to take to deal with a possible insider cyber security attack. The article does not say that BNP Paribas has any evidence of a probably attack – …
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DDoS attacks increase in 2021
Denial of Service attacks or Distributed Denial of Service attacks are cyber security attacks where a website is flooded with malicious traffic making it unusable. Research by Radware, found these attacks had greatly increased in 2021 – where it was also discovered that ransomware gangs have been using these attacks …
