There are reports of even more information about Twitter users is being leaked into the public domain or sold privately between hackers: 5.4 million Twitter users’ stolen data leaked online — more shared privately (bleepingcomputer.com) Just the time to be without a CISO. It looks like you will have to …
Another fix for another zero-day Google Chrome flaw
Google Chrome is a very popular browser so it is worthwhile for the threat actors to keep poking away at it to find the vulnerabilities. The team a Google also keep looking and patching: Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022 (bleepingcomputer.com) Get Chrome patched now.
Just in case you thought you could relax about ransomware
Ransomware both the encryption attack and the exfiltrate/extortion attack are still probably your most serious cyber security risk. Here is some basic advice all of which you have implemented: Here is the latest double whammy ransomware attack being reported on in the tech news: Donut extortion group also targets victims …
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Newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Windows is being exploited now
Zero-day attacks will always be a serious issue for anyone involved in cyber security. A zero-day cyber attack is one that happens in the gap between the hackers discovering a vulnerability in a system and putting an exploit out in the wild and the software vendors, discovering the same software …
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Phishing emails in the wild – how can this infect you?
Threat actors are always looking for ways to evade your anti-virus software and other technical defences you use. There is an active Qbot malware email phishing campaign being run across the world that is compromising the Windows Control panel of infected machine – which can evade some software defences. This …
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