Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
ChatGPT has been used for homework, writing radio programmes, academic papers, articles, coding, hacking etc. etc. etc.. Here are some of the most recent articles examining privacy and cyber crime using artificial intelligence, of which the adapting, convincing email scams is probably the issue that organisations need to think about …
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Researchers have discovered a new strain of ransomware malware, they have named Rorschach, which has a very fast encryption engine. New Rorschach ransomware is the fastest encryptor seen so far (bleepingcomputer.com) This makes having a well trained team, who know exactly what to do if they even suspect they may …
I recently wrote a mini-series of articles looking at various aspects of ransomware and what you need to do about it. Ransomware – A Primer – Smart Thinking Solutions That series mainly concentrated on encryption ransomware but the cyber gangs are also turning to extortion ransomware – so I wrote …
AlienFox is a malicious modular toolkit that threat actors can buy via a private Telegram channel. New AlienFox toolkit steals credentials for 18 cloud services (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware can be configured to scan for misconfigured servers and steal authentication details and credentials for a range of popular cloud-based services such …
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I have a couple of articles over on CyberAwake looking at the issue of extortion ransomware and offering some tips for small and medium organisations on how to protect their information using tools they already have. From Encryption Ransomware To Extortion Ransomware Part I From Encryption Ransomware to Extortion Ransomware …
