Journalist’s accounts are among those compromised in an attack on News Corp. News Corp journalists’ accounts compromised, China suspected • The Register News Corp breached by suspected Chinese hackers – The Record by Recorded Future
Ransomware gang gives a public “business” interview
Following the article in The Guardian that compared ransomware cyber criminals to legitimate businesses: Here is a ransomware gang giving an interview outlining it’s future “business” plans and goals – including discussing its “brand” as a way of making interactions with businesses and insurance companies easier! An ALPHV (BlackCat) representative …
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The impact of ransomware on businesses – threat actors acting like legitimate businesses
This is an interesting article on the financial impact of ransomware on businesses by Rob Davies and Dan Milmo of The Guardian. I think the way they illustrate that these criminal gangs have shaped their operations to outwardly function as legitimate businesses, including having well spoken help desks to aid …
Octagon’s 365R service addresses flexible working cybersecurity issues for organisations
That is a bit of a mouthful of a headline – not as good as “Snack Attack!” but it does explain this post. This article from Tech Republic outlines clearly the challenges to all business working in the new flexible work space. Remote work causing security issues for system and …
Log4j exploits and behind the scenes with the Apache patching team
Here is an interesting article from the team at Apache dealing with patching the Log4j problem: The Apache Log4j team talks about the Log4Shell patching process – The Record by Recorded Future But the exploits in the wild are still happening: Threat actor target Ubiquiti network appliances using Log4Shell exploits …
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