Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Data stealing malware, pushed through compromised Google search ads, is attempting to evade detection by using virtualisation components: Google ads push ‘virtualized’ malware made for antivirus evasion (bleepingcomputer.com) Researchers think this new type of attack strategy and other emerging attack vectors are being prompted s as reaction to Microsoft tightening …
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The Police in the Indian State of Telangana have started a grassroots cyber education scheme to combat social engineering scams: In the Fight Against Scams, ‘Cyber Ambassadors’ Enter the Chat | WIRED UK Education is the way forward. – that is why we created CyberAwake: European cops shut down fake …
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Yesterday I published an article on CyberAwake discussing the advice every security expert gives (including myself) “don’t click on that link”. Don’t blame your team “Just Click Here” – CyberAwake It’s more complicated than you would expect.
It is ransomware: Rackspace confirms outage was caused by ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com) Rackspace has now confirmed that the outage of Exchange email services for its clients is being caused by a ransomware infection inside their systems – but they refer to this as “isolated disruption”. Which I think is a …
Yesterday CyberAwake published my article looking at how snippets of information can leak out of a company and aid a threat actor:
