Facebook is a vital tool on most organisation’s marketing plan – so the Facebook credentials are as important as the ones for the bank and Microsoft 365. Threat actors targeting personal accounts with their phishing campaigns could also catch your business account details. Watch out for “I can’t believe he …
How to evade reputation based email cyber security
A very effective way to reduce phishing email is to enforce only receiving email from reputable email services. If you have not heard of this type of email protection then it is time to get in contact with us. However if the threat actors have a method of hijacking one …
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Email Phishing is a constantly changing threat
One of the topics covered at the cyber security conference I was at last week was how AI tools such as ChatGPT are helping threat actors refine the social engineering messages that enable the success of an email phishing attack. Our Cyber Security Awareness Training still includes looking out for …
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What to do if you think you have malware on you PC…
…and a good news story about Facebook. The information stealing malware, NodeStealer spotted by the Facebook security team stealing Facebook user information and hijacking accounts – so they stepped in and blocked it. Facebook disrupts new NodeStealer information-stealing malware (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware exfiltrated session cookies from a range of the …
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Facebook fined
Meta – the owners of Facebook – have been fined nearly £350m for the way they asked permission to use users personal information. The Irish Data Protection Commission found that Facebook had broken EU data protection laws, now Meta have three months to make fix things: Meta fined €390m over …