Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The model of ransomware attacks has definitely moved for a backroom hackers sending malware out, to a corporation style operation, complete with updates, support and marketing of the illicit tools. Small opportunist threat actors remain, and always will, hackers have to start somewhere, as is shown by this article at …
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At the moment the perpetrators of these attacks are unknown, but they are targeting Macs, with malware that allows backdoor access to the devices Once in the malware, bypasses various MacOS defences and is then able to exfiltrate a range of data from the machines, including keystrokes, emails, documents, files, …
The threat actor Roaming Mantis has been detected since February, targeting victims across Europe and the Far East. Their attacks are based around phishing text messages, Android users are directed to download a malicious app, whilst Apple users (as the Apple “walled garden” Apps store does an effective job of …
An air-gapped system is designed to be very secure. It is not connected to any other system, network or internet – literally a physical gap between it and the rest of the IT world. If it is not connected, then threat actors cannot connect to it. Mordechai Guri, from Ben-Gurion …
The European Union (EU) has issued a warning about the measurably increase in the volume of Russian cyber-attacks associated with the Russia Ukraine conflict and how these attacks can easily spread to other regions. Nations that actively support Ukraine, with whatever resources, are likely to be “at risk” of this …
