SANS Internet Storm Centre has a couple of blog posts looking at the mechanics of a Word document and a PDF both of which are malicious payloads in a phishing email. This is what you are up against! Analyzing a Phishing Word Document – SANS Internet Storm Centre Simple PDF …
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 22 April 2022
Weekly Threat Report 22nd April 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
Inside a commercial spyware company
Following the story this week that No. 10 Downing Street and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were infected with the Pegasus spyware, Bruce Schneier put me onto this article about the NSO Group and Pegasus spyware. It provides some amazing background into the way the software has developed and how …
Actors against AI
We have run a few AI stories over the past months, here is another: Actors launch campaign against AI ‘show stealers’ – BBC News Star Wars has a reputation for using technology to resurrect actors such as Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin: Rogue One: Peter Cushing resurrected as Grand …
When you improve your defences – the hackers change their tactics
Following up on the two articles I posted yesterday, to give you an awareness of the threat landscape, here are two articles discussing how that landscape is constantly changing. Criminals adopting new methods to bypass improved defenses • The Register Cybercriminals are finding new ways to target cloud environments | …
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