Here is a link to the NCSC weekly threat report for week ending 3/12/2021: Weekly Threat Report 3rd December 2021 – NCSC.GOV.UK
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report
The future of society is smart contracts on a blockchain
The future of cyber crime is smart contracts on a blockchain with software bugs! Dan Goodin has an article explaining how a bug (flaw) in the code for drafting a blockchain smart contract, by MonoX Finance, allowed a hacker to steal $31million from them. Really stupid “smart contract” bug let …
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Malware Spam in the wild
The SANS Internet Storm Centre is reporting another spam email attack doing the rounds with a new payload. TA551 (Shathak) pushes IcedID (Bokbot) (sans.edu) The important things to take away from this are: In real world situations ransomware has been delivered to companies using these methods Keep your spam filters …
Legacy software – always a challenge
Old software that does exactly what you want, in the way you like to do it is everywhere – I am still using a copy of Paint Shop Pro v7.04 from 2000! But what happens when that legacy software or hardware is part of vital infrastructure or other systems? Bruce …
Building a botnet – this can impact you!
This is a story from a few days back but it came to mind following a discussion yesterday with a client who questioned “changing their router/modem/firewall” in a report a prepared for them. This is not the whole answer – which included VPN – but is some of it. SANS …
