This post was originally made on 2 March 2022. It will be updated as the Russian Ukraine Conflict develops and will highlight the cyber security issues facing organisations and individuals at this time. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising all UK organisations to review and improve their cyber …
Cloudflare updates us about the massive DDoS attack they held back
The malware/botnet that instigated the recent DDoS attack has now been given a name by Cloudflare – Mantis. Mantis, the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks • The Register Octagon has specified Cloudflare to protect some it’s clients high profile websites. Distributed Denial of Service attacks – Smart Thinking …
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Shopping for malware
How cheap it is for threat actors, who are less technically able, to set up a technically complex attack has been a theme on the blog over the last few weeks. More low-level cyber criminals joining in Budget friendly malware increases your risk Here is another article showing that the …
Cloudflare has big boots!
Cloudflare is a service that offers a range of services – one of which is to protect client websites and servers from denial of service attacks. We are using it for one of our high profile clients. Cloudflare does this job very well and can deal with the biggest DDoS …
Borat is a triple threat RAT
Nothing to do with Sacha Baron Cohen. A remote access trojan, (RAT), is a holy grail of an infection for a hacker to get onto your system, as this powerful cyber crime tool allows full access and control of an infected system. Once a hacker has this much control they …