Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
It’s Emotet – this is obviously where the cyber-criminals are making their money. Emotet reestablishes itself at the top of the malware world • The Register Emotet is operated by an operation called Cryptolaemus, and they have been developing the code to bring the malware back after it had been …
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It is a package included in a phishing email attack – it is in the wild, now. Brad on the SANS Internet Storm Diary has described the chain of events for an infection, which includes screenshots of what the email and package looks like. “aa” distribution Qakbot (Qbot) infection with …
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Researchers at Google have been tracking various phishing cyber attacks, that are exploiting the Russia Ukraine conflict, but originate from other countries. China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and others using Ukraine invasion in phishing attacks: Google – The Record by Recorded Future Both state sponsored and financially motivated groups are …
When does the term “data breach” help you PR machine mitigate a cyber security data breach – especially when it involves the personal information of children? When you (The Isle of Wight Council) actually just email the data out. Isle of Wight children’s details sent out in data breach – …
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You can report a suspect malicious email through the National Cyber Security Centre website – over 10,000,000 have been reported: Nation of digital defenders blow the whistle on over 10… – NCSC.GOV.UK Report a scam email – NCSC.GOV.UK There is also good advice there about passwords – but see our …
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