Do you know what a zero-day cyber security threat is? Maybe you do and maybe you don’t, but we are going to take a couple of articles to look at: What is the Zero-day Threat? The competition between the threat actors and the anti-virus and cyber security software vendors should …
ChatGPT and Cyber Security
The sale of credentials is a very active illicit market place. Now the cyber criminals are hoping that employees have shared organisational secrets with ChatGPT as compromised ChatGPT credentials are found for sale on the Dark Web. Trove of ChatGPT creds found on dark web • The Register Do you …
Why modern software does not help with the cyber threat
Modern software often offers extra features through the use of code extensions such as using Python or in the case of Microsoft the macro. We all love the extra functionality – threat actors like the way this functionality allows them to slip malicious code through our defences to us. Microsoft …
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The Phishing Attack – Malware for Rent
The rise of hacking-as-a-service, complete with support, updates (to evade detection) and user feedback and testimonials has seen an increase of less Technal threat groups being able to launch effective phishing attack. The malware, Mystic Stealer can be rented on the dark web for as little as $150 per month. …
Microsoft suffers DDoS attacks
The big vendors give you peace of mind when it comes to the services they offer. However the big vendors are big targets for threat actors. Recently Microsoft Azure, OneDrive and Outlook portals have been suffering outages and service degradation – Microsoft’s investigation revealed they were under a sustained distributed …
