Everyone needs policies and procedures that address the potential risk of business email compromise (BEC). That is when the threat actors through impersonation or compromised credentials get inside an email system and send malicious business instructions to your team pretending to senior people in your organisation or trusted partners. Here …
Did you know that multi-factor authentication can be defeated by threat actors?
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is not perfect and it can be compromised by threat actors. However, we still stand by our advice to all our clients: Always use MFA – using and authenticator app – whenever it is available. I published an article yesterday on CyberAwake about some of the issues …
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Emotet is back
Just when it looked like the Emotet spamming/malware operation had stopped, there are widespread reports that it has restarted. Emotet botnet starts blasting malware again after 5 month break (bleepingcomputer.com) Infected Microsoft Office documents are Emotet’s favoured method of malware distribution. Once the email has slipped past your technical defences, …
Steal the code… Dropbox
Dropbox has admitted that 130 of its confidential private GitHub repositories were coped by a threat actor. Among the haul were secret APUI codes. They do reassure users that no user content, usernames or passwords were stolen. Well of course not. That is not the issue. Why bother stealing those …
Catching up with US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency latest advisories
Whilst I have been away CISA has continued issuing useful advice. It added a Google Chromium vulnerability to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Google Chromium is an open–source browser project and is behind many widely used browsers including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. CISA Has Added One Known Exploited Vulnerability …
Ransomware attacks are down – but here is why the headline statistic is not going to help with your cyber security…
A report from SonicWall shows that the number of Ransomware has dropped over the past months – however this is not the good news it appears to be as they have only dropped from the record highs of 2020/2021 and are still way above levels previous to that. 2022 SonicWall …
My latest post on the Insider Threat
I have posted the latest part of my occasional series about the Insider Threat cyber security risk, on our online training site, CyberAwake:
