Two data leaks of highly sensitive information by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) will have long term and serious implications for the officers, personnel and their families and friends. PSNI chief admits officers anxious and angry at data breach – BBC News These leaks are a crisis. Your …
Malware Stealing information from Apple’s Keychain
For a subscription of $1000 per month, Malware-as-a-Service is available to hackers via a Telegram channel that attacks Apple’s keychain password security on MacOS. The malware, called Atomic or AMOS, once deployed attempts to steal and exfiltrate a range information from MacOS machines, including passwords, cookies, crypto-wallets, browsers etc.. New …
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As promised yesterday…
… more about extortion ransomware and what you can do about defending your information from it: From Encryption Ransomware To Extortion Ransomware Part I – CyberAwake This first part looks at defending critical accounts from compromise.
Extortion only – no encryption
Ransomware is known for encrypting your data then demanding money for the key to recover your information (probably). Then ransomware moved on to not only encrypting but stealing your information and then extorting another ransom from you to not release or sell your information. Now there is ransomware that skips …
The Insider Threat
The insider threat – the breaking of trust by one of your team is probably the hardest cyber security incident to deal with. Without trust organisations cannot function. Here is an example from the world stage where China is accused of stealing intellectual property from computer chip manufacturer ASML : …
