Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Working together is one of the best ways to beat the threat actors. Europol has had another success in closing down a phishing gang, arresting suspects and seizing assets: Phishing gang behind several million euros worth of losses busted in Belgium and the Netherlands | Europol (europa.eu) Phishing and social …
This is a ransomware encryption attack, that Octagon’s backup solution is designed to mitigate against. The attack exploits the Microsoft 365 versioning feature, when editing a file, saved in SharePoint or OneDrive. Once the threat actors gets into the cloud storage they can execute their attack and start encrypting your …
Continue reading “Microsoft versioning vulnerability – we have the solution”
I have just written this article, showing that more than 24billion stolen credentials are available for sale on the dark web: Now here is a voice mail phishing attack that is designed to steal your Microsoft credentials – so they can join the other 24 billion on the Dark Web: …
Continue reading “Threat actors come up with yet another way to steal your Microsoft credentials…”
The Emotet botnet started off as banking trojan then evolved into a spamming and malware delivery system, has now moved onto exfiltrating credit card data: Emotet malware gang shifts to stealing credit cards • The Register If you have your credit card details stored in your Google Chrome browser, the …
Continue reading “Emotet are back – now stealing credit card data”
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has gone to court to seize 41 domains alleged to have been used by an Iranian cybercrime group called Bohrium. The Bohrium group ran a targeted email spear-phishing operation against organizations in the US, Middle East, and India. As part of the operation they would pose …
Bored with ransomware stories? Read this one, it has a very nice Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference. There have been a flurry of ransomware attacks in the news recently – but these are only the ones that make the headlines. Louisiana authorities investigating ransomware attack on city of Alexandria …
I must be sounding a bit like a broken record (see references at the bottom), as I regularly write about the fact that ransomware attacks are ever increasing! Here is another report showing just that: A favorite of cybercriminals and nation states, ransomware incidents increase again | TechRepublic Just know …
