Threat Report 24 June 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 24 June 2022
New commercial spyware for phones
Google researchers are reporting on spyware that is active on both Apple and Android smartphones – the spyware is called Hermit and Google has taken steps to protect Android users. The software developed and marketed by RCS Lab, based in Milan, will exfiltrate messages ,contacts and password information from targeted …
If you are still catching up with Follina? Info from the Octagon support team.
The patches and fixes are out but Octagon’s support team is still getting enquiries about the Microsoft Follina flaw. Here is a blog post by Ben, one of the support team at Octagon, outlining what you need to know. And Smart Thinking’s article:
Parcel delivery service Yodel suffers a cyber attack
There is not much information on this issue, as the firm’s communications are jammed with customer complaints: Special delivery: Yodel latest victim of cyber ‘incident’ • The Register Yodel has acknowledged there is a problem on it’s web site, and is posting updates on social media. Any organisation can be …
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Microsoft versioning vulnerability – we have the solution
This is a ransomware encryption attack, that Octagon’s backup solution is designed to mitigate against. The attack exploits the Microsoft 365 versioning feature, when editing a file, saved in SharePoint or OneDrive. Once the threat actors gets into the cloud storage they can execute their attack and start encrypting your …
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