Just when it looked like the Emotet spamming/malware operation had stopped, there are widespread reports that it has restarted. Emotet botnet starts blasting malware again after 5 month break (bleepingcomputer.com) Infected Microsoft Office documents are Emotet’s favoured method of malware distribution. Once the email has slipped past your technical defences, …
Royal Mail Click and Drop website closed
The Royal Mail had to close its Click and Drop website this week, as a security slip up allowed some customers access to information, they should not have been able to see. Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop • The Register Engineers solved the issue within …
Malicious Android smartphone apps
Here are a couple of the current examples of Android malware that could compromise your organisation, reported in the technical press this week. New SandStrike spyware infects Android devices via malicious VPN app (bleepingcomputer.com) Malicious Android apps with 1M+ installs found on Google Play (bleepingcomputer.com) They have different malicious intent …
Steal the code… Dropbox
Dropbox has admitted that 130 of its confidential private GitHub repositories were coped by a threat actor. Among the haul were secret APUI codes. They do reassure users that no user content, usernames or passwords were stolen. Well of course not. That is not the issue. Why bother stealing those …
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 28 October 2022
Threat Report 28th October 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
