Having missed a week – the NCSC is back with it’s weekly report: Weekly Threat Report 20th May 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 20 May 2022
Good faith hackers – they do exist
Cyber security investigations often mean carrying out tasks that by the letter of the (US or UK) are illegal – it is the nature of the job. In the United Kingdom we have two critical pieces of legislation that a cyber security consultant could fall foul of: Computer Misuse Act …
Chatbot phishing
Phishing campaigns usually depend on social engineering and threat actors are always looking for new ways to exploit your trust: Phishing scam adds a ‘chatbot-like’ twist to steal credit card information and more – The Record by Recorded Future
BlackByte cyber gang active despite the FBI advisory
The BlackByte “Ransomware-as-a-Service” gang and it’s affiliates have been active worldwide, despite the FBI and US Secret Service issuing a cyber security advisory about the gangs operations. No one is slowing down BlackByte ransomware gang • The Register Ransomware in more hands can only be a bad thing for our …
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VMWare is a real cyber security issue – fix it or get rid of it CISA warns
This is pretty simple – do you use VMWare if so get it patched or change it. The Spring Cloud framework vulnerability is proving a honey pot for attackers. CISA issues directive for exploited VMware bug after IR team deployed to ‘large’ org – The Record by Recorded Future Patch …
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