I often refer to the typical “Nigerian Prince” email scam in my Cyber Awareness Training – not expecting them to work today. But there are always new angles! Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist – BleepingComputer Next week’s Wednesday’s bit is going to be about …
Bank Scams Everywhere
Here is cyber security advice for your organisation and home. There is a marked increase of threat actors using bank scams, online, via phone calls, text messages and email. But we should have already been aware of these. The new trends are for attacks to come via social media, online …
Some Seasonal Training over on CyberAwake
Just in time for Christmas – I have an article, published yesterday, over on our inline training site, CyberAwake, with a few tips on tightening your cyber security before heading off for your Christmas break. Christmas cyber security advice – CyberAwake In particular I offer some advice on controlling that …
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Business Email Compromise
Everyone needs policies and procedures that address the potential risk of business email compromise (BEC). That is when the threat actors through impersonation or compromised credentials get inside an email system and send malicious business instructions to your team pretending to senior people in your organisation or trusted partners. Here …
My latest article on our training website CyberAwake.co.uk
Yesterday CyberAwake published my article looking at how snippets of information can leak out of a company and aid a threat actor:
