Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
In December 2019, Maastricht University in the Netherlands, decided to pay the ransom, of €200,000 at the time, to release the data of over 22,00 students, the academics and the university administration. Maastricht University wound up earning money from its ransom payment (bleepingcomputer.com) Since then the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service …
This post was first published on 5 July 2022. The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, is calling for improved cyber security, in the country following the unprecedented alleged data theft by ChinaDan: Security warning after sale of stolen Chinese data – BBC News Details of the theft are starting to be …
I have been explaining throughout the period of the Russia Ukraine conflict, that even though the cyber-threat spread has been limited, so far, it may not remain so and it may take time for the threat to UK organisation and individual systems to develop. Today the National Cyber Security Centre …
The threat actors are still attempting to exploit the Follina flaw in Microsoft Word – looking for those of you out there who have not bothered to run the updates: XFiles info-stealing malware adds support for Follina delivery (bleepingcomputer.com) Have you checked all the machines in your organisation have run …
The Raccoon Stealer malware is back with an updated version, with added functionality and capabilities. This malware is offered as malware-as-a-service (mimicking a legitimate business model), enabling less well equipped threat actors to implement sophisticated cyber security attacks. Expect the use of this malware to increase as threat actors, looking for …
It is an accepted practice for software vendors to offer a bug bounty to people who discover a flaw in their software, and report it to them. The vendor can then, hopefully, fix the vulnerability before a threat actor can exploit it. Now the ransomware gangs are at it – …
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I think it is true to say no one is sure what is happening to the Conti cyber criminal gang – other than, following the leak of it’s information earlier in the year, it has fractured. Son of Conti: Ransomware tries its hand at politics – The Record by Recorded …
