Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
…ask the UK Government, HMRC and the UK taxpayer who will ultimately pay the bill. Here is Faarea Masud’s report on the HMRC cyber-attack: Scammers stole £47m from HMRC in phishing attack – BBC News Your Takeaway Here is what I have to say on phishing attacks and how to …
“Empty shelves, cancelled online orders, the data of millions of customers stolen.” BBC News The BBC is reporting that the Scattered Spider cyber-gang is probably behind the attacks and they have been using an “off the shelf” threat actor package called DragonForce to carry out the attacks. M&S and Co-op …
Here are two informative articles from the BBC looking at two different cyber-attacks. The first is a look at an attack on Redcar and Cleveland Council in February 2020, which for the rest of us got overtaken by world events but for those living and working in the region it …
I do not often post on Saturdays but this could not wait until after the Bank Holiday. All last week my articles were about the cyber attacks impacting UK retail stores. It started with M&S, then the Co-op and finished with Harrods. You can read those articles below. I was …
This one to be specific: WooCommerce admins targeted by fake security patches that hijack sites It is a phishing campaign, attacking the popular WordPress plugin WooCommerce, exploiting admins and their credentials with malicious security patches the admins think they must have – again a classic bit of threat actor social …
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