It’s 2025… so why are obviously malicious advertising URLs still going strong? – SANS Internet Storm Center The article by Jan Kopriva makes a number of excellent points about why threat actors continue with these types of social engineering attacks – but the bottom line is that lack of training …
Because It’s Friday – Bottom
A “click bait” title for this week’s “Because It’s Friday” article. From the BBC archive comes an excellent Tomorrow’s World episode, hosted by James Burke, looking at the technology that kept people alive and working in Antartica in 1967. Every trick to either keep things warm or cold and plans …
Phishing attacks are not static
Time to add another chapter to my Phishing Email Primer: It is being reported that threat actors have been using a new targeting tactic to sort through victims who have been ensnared by their social engineering attacks. When presented with the malicious credentials Window, only those high-value victims who have …
To Catch A Thief… A Story of a Security Operations Centre
I am sorry, the title is a bit misleading, but once you have read the article, I am sure you will see how we – and the Security Operations Centre – could have caught a thief. Additionally, it is not about the Hitchcock movie; however, some of the action does …
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – April 2025
Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The day the cyber security world thinks about Microsoft patches and vulnerabilities. But remember other vendors also release cyber security and functionality updates and patches on or around the same time – check those as well. Our support team …