There are reports of customers being angry with the response of Booking.com to a cyber-attack that has compromised their systems and has resulted in the theft of money from customers by the hackers. Booking.com users angry at firm’s response to hacks – BBC News How a company responds to its …
Let’s start the week with Ransomware
We finished last week with a ransomware story. let’s start this week with another: BlackCat ransomware hits Azure Storage with Sphynx encryptor (bleepingcomputer.com) This ransomware story has a twist, the prolific BlackCat ransomware gang are ow using stolen Microsoft credentials in custom software to execute their attacks. Your takeaway You …
Have a look at LinkedIn’s new security features
The idea of LinkedIn is to enable communications and trust between its users – something the threat actors soon exploited. Fake profiles, offering fake jobs but installing real malware, stealing credentials and defrauding users. Now LinkedIn has introduced several new measures to combat fake identities and the malicious exploitation of …
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Credential theft – where the threat actors start and some advice
Collecting (stealing) credentials is a favourite pastime of threat actors – either to break into accounts directly or to add them to their credential stuffing attacks (looking for those people who reuse passwords) or just to sell on the dark web! Here they are doing it to users of the …
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