WatchGuard – a market leader in security devices – appears to have kept a significant vulnerability secret – although it did patch the issue. WatchGuard failed to explicitly disclose critical flaw exploited by Russian hackers | Ars Technica If they patched the issue, then surely everything is fine. Well no. …
Malware in the wild – in an Excel file sent out by email. Could you spot it?
Here is a classic phishing email attack – millions of potential emails could contain this, could you spot it? It also includes the dreaded “Enable Macro” request. Windows MetaStealer Malware – Sans Internet Storm Centre Windows MetaStealer Malware – SANS Internet Storm Center
Check your Zyxel devices
Zyxel have issued critical updates for some essential cyber security devices. Check your business cybersecurity plan to see if you are impacted and if so – get the updates done. Zyxel patches critical vulnerability that can allow Firewall and VPN hijacks | Ars Technica You do not have a business …
Unbelievable!
Bank that lacked basic security suffers predictable fate • The Register Where have these people been living – under a stone! Andra Pradesh Mahesh Co-Operative Urban Bank – 45 branches, holding money that people entrusted to them.
Even the world’s biggest companies get suckered by social engineering
Both Apple and Meta were the victims of social engineering scams that caused them to simply giveaway user personal information. I am not going to call this sophisticated – actually it was quite simple – the cyber criminals, studied how an Emergency Data Requests (EDR) operated and then spoofed that …
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