I have written about the usefulness and the threat that Microsoft Office document macros can pose to your cyber security. This flaw, called Follina, exploits Office functionality to retrieve an HTML file, and Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) to run some malicious code, which can lead to privilege escalation attacks. …
New attack using Microsoft Office documents – could you or your team recognise it?
We all send and receive Microsoft Office documents, day in and day out, using email. It is how businesses and organisations work in a Microsoft Business World – even if you have a Mac or an iPad. So any attack vector that combine a Microsoft Word document with email is …
Zoom – just get it updated
What was a little known communication and collaboration product before the COVID-19 pandemic, has now become common place both in business and the home. Everything from music concerts, birthday parties, quizzes, government briefings and business meeting – some confidential and some not – have been held on Zoom all over …
Universities as targets UPDATED 23 May 2022
This post was first made on 12 April 2022 Update 23 May 2022 Now it is School Districts as targets: K-12 school districts in New Mexico, Ohio crippled by cyberattacks – The Record by Recorded Future Ransomware attack exposes data of 500,000 Chicago students (bleepingcomputer.com) Update 20 May 2022 I …
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Is the Conti gang really gone?
The Conti cyber-crime gang has featured in many of my blog post – they have been a prolific perpetrator of some of the worse cyber attacks. Now researchers are reporting that much of their illicit infrastructure has closed down: Notorious cybercrime gang Conti ‘shuts down,’ but its influence and talent …