Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Yesterday I published my latest article over on our online training site CyberAwake looking at the most basic of cyber-attacks – an infected phishing email. Don’t be tempted to open that zip file A story of a phishing email – CyberAwake Could you people deal with this situation? QBot Malware: …
Threat Report 11th November 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
This is a weighty report from Microsoft looking at the state of cyber-attacks and responses – it is worth reading: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2022 Your takeaway from this is – if you are better informed you can make better decisions on how to prepare your cyber security responses.
There is an active email phishing campaign infecting both home users and organisations. The malicious emails contain a .zip attachment. The payload is called IceXLoader and it primarily exfiltrates sensitive information from infected systems: Phishing drops IceXLoader malware on thousands of home, corporate devices (bleepingcomputer.com) The threat actors are not …
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The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School has suffered a cyber-attack that has resulted in confidential student information getting into the public domain. Pupils’ data spread online in Hereford school cyber attack – BBC News The school has been open about the attack but is awaiting the outcome of the police …
