I have written about how to defend your cybersecurity when your firewalls, anti-virus and other defences fail you:
When your technical defences fail – CyberAwake
A new place to get a different viewpoint on cyber security – CyberAwake
As well as yesterday being the day we published our 1000th post here, on Smart Thinking. It was also the day we launched the blog on the CyberAwake training site. The content of the CyberAwake blog will be different from Octagon and Smart Thinking, with an emphasis on the issues …
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Roaming Mantis targets both Android and Apple iOS. But there are more malicious apps out there than you probably realise…
The threat actor Roaming Mantis has been detected since February, targeting victims across Europe and the Far East. Their attacks are based around phishing text messages, Android users are directed to download a malicious app, whilst Apple users (as the Apple “walled garden” Apps store does an effective job of …
OpenDocument files distributing stealth malware – make sure your team can recognise these types of attack.
This report is from HP’s Threat Research Blog and is about a threat discovered impacting hotels in South America. But it illustrates the wide range of threats that can get to you via an email attachment and has some examples you can look at. Stealthy OpenDocument Malware Deployed Against Latin …
I have told everyone to use MFA so I do not need to think about more cyber security! UPDATED 14 July 2022
This post was original published on 27 June 2022 Update 14 July 2022 Here is an article from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team outlining how the big phishing campaigns backed by experienced and skilled hackers can bypass the security of multi-factor authentication: …
