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Posted on 19 February 202419 February 2024

Android Malware

This is another story of another malicious Android app making its way into the Googler Play store and then onto users devices: Anatsa Android malware downloaded 150,000 times via Google Play (bleepingcomputer.com) Something Apple users can probably look forward to when the EU forces Apple to allow side loading and …

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Posted on 15 February 202415 February 2024

Phone number recycling

Here is something new to think about: Meta brushes off risk of account theft via number recycling • The Register I must admit I had never thought about this type of leak in a cyber security plan. I am not sure how relevant this is in the UK, but it …

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Posted on 14 February 202414 February 2024

Social Engineering – Getting the Victim Ready

social engineering wraps the victim up ready for the follow-up cyber-attack

Last week I wrote about a technically advanced, highly sophisticated cyber-attack in Hong Kong, that netted the attackers $25m – it all started with some simple social engineering pretexting. You may not have $25m in your bank account but here is the state of play of deep fake hacking What …

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Posted on 14 February 202414 February 2024

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – February 2024

patches and updates

Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month that means our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are no issues …

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Posted on 13 February 20248 April 2025

Do you want fries with that hack?

hacking

Setting up phony websites with just a letter different from the legitimate sites is nothing new – I can remember a marketing company (now defunct) trying to persuade me to buy dozens of variations of our IT support company domain, to capture those potential customers who have “fat fingers” – …

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