Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
One of the speakers at the cyber security conference last week blamed the users when it came to cyber security. They also were concentrating on big business solutions when the most people work form small organisations. I never blame the users, I also will not get involved in a blame …
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This post was first made on 14 October 2022 Original Post Threat actors do not care who they infect as long as they pay up. Now fake anti-virus and security updates for Windows 10 have been circulating and deploying Magniber ransomware – the zip files contain JavaScript that initiates the …
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This is an interesting report from HP’s cyber security division: The Evolution of Cybercrime: Why the Dark Web is Supercharging the Threat Landscape and How to Fight Back | HP Wolf Security Something to read over coffee. HP-Wolf-Security-Evolution-of-Cybercrime-Report.pdf
This report is from HP’s Threat Research Blog and is about a threat discovered impacting hotels in South America. But it illustrates the wide range of threats that can get to you via an email attachment and has some examples you can look at. Stealthy OpenDocument Malware Deployed Against Latin …
Researchers at HP Wolf Security have started to see phishing spam email campaigns deploying a previously unknown malware family SVCReady. The HP security blog has a very good description of the malware and how it works – a bit techie – but towards the end it shows some images of …
Getting the word out to you, about the wide range of phishing emails and their associated social engineering tricks actually active in the wild, is one of the ain reasons this blog exists. Many of our clients use this blog as a resource as a link to the multitude of …
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