News of these issues with the National Health Service (NHS) broke yesterday, but I decided to wait for the speculation to die down before reporting on something as important as an essential service we all rely on. The cyber incident impacted the NHS 111 service – not the emergency 999 …
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 5 August 2022
Threat Report 5th August 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
BreachForums is more popular than ever with threat actors
BreachForums is a site that shares stolen data between threat actors – and it is expanding mainly due to the “billion record Chinese hack” being shared there: Billion-record Chinese data leak’s host booms • The Register Don’t let your organisation’s information end up there!
Long term firmware compromise
This is an article looking at the invisible threat in our hardware – UEFI rootkit attacks. Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us | Ars Technica
And we thought blocking Microsoft Office macros was a good idea – but close one door to the threat actors and of course they find another way to get to you…
Research is showing that with Microsoft now blocking Office VBA macros from the internet, threat actors are moving to other attachments that can execute malicious instructions, such as Windows Shortcut .lnk, .iso and .rar. As Microsoft blocks Office macros, hackers find new attack vectors (bleepingcomputer.com) My advice: Make sure your …