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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Email cyber attacks whilst you are off on your Christmas holidays – some advice
I have been travelling recently and have missed a couple of CISA announcements on software security updates: Samba Releases Security Updates | CISA Drupal Releases Security Updates to Address Vulnerabilities in H5P and File (Field) Paths | CISA CISA also recently released a joint advisory with other US agencies, explaining …
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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 …
