I write a lot of bad news stories here, it is the nature of a cyber security news site – that’s why we have Because It’s Friday – but here is a good news story when the threat actors get it wrong: First Linux variant of Clop ransomware targeted universities, …
ESXiArgs ransomware is a massive problem
ESXiArgs ransomware targets VMware ESXi virtualisation systems – usually used by larger companies, data centres, cloud providers etc, but we have used this software in the past – and exploits a vulnerability that was patched by VMware two years ago. However it appears not everyone has applied the patches. Thousands of …
Even the biggest suppliers have outages
Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service has been and is suffering a series of outages that is impacting it’s users. This is not a common service used by business, however we do have some clients, who have a need to use this type of service ( I am not sure if they …
Earthquake = Scams
There has been a terrible series of earthquakes in Syria and Turkey – so expect the amount of scam traffic email, texts and websites to leap up in the coming days as the scammers take advantage of people’s suffering and other’s compassion. This article by Johannes Ullrich has some very …
Bruce Schneier on AI and Hacking
The very capable ChatGPT AI has been in the news recently for writing human quality code, essays, novels and even academic papers. Whilst it was free it was even used for hacking – of course – and it may still be used for malicious purposes even though it is now …
