Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
First see what I have to say about “sophisticated attacks” then we will get into this leak of personal information by an organisation that should have a reasonable spend on cyber-security! Twilio – a communications and phone company based in San Francisco – is reluctant to give away much information on …
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With the holiday season well underway, I thought we would take a look at the cyber security implications of the Out-of-Office notification:
Research is showing that with Microsoft now blocking Office VBA macros from the internet, threat actors are moving to other attachments that can execute malicious instructions, such as Windows Shortcut .lnk, .iso and .rar. As Microsoft blocks Office macros, hackers find new attack vectors (bleepingcomputer.com) My advice: Make sure your …
Phishing attacks are highly successful for threat actors, now they can be executed by gangs with less technical ability as they can buy it in: New ‘Robin Banks’ phishing service targets BofA, Citi, and Wells Fargo (bleepingcomputer.com) You need to be ready
Threat actors have to find a way to get their malware onto your systems – phishing emails is an obvious method – Qakbot malware is the next step. This malware also known as Qbot, has been found to be to be intermediate software used by threat actors to infect victim’s …
