Cryptocurrency bridge Nomad recently lost nearly $200 million to a cyber attack. Now they are offering the threat actors 90/10 split on the loot, for the return of 90% and not prosecution – Nomad will treat it as bug bounty for finding the flaw. Nomad are referring to the threat …
NHS cyber-attack effectively contained
News of these issues with the National Health Service (NHS) broke yesterday, but I decided to wait for the speculation to die down before reporting on something as important as an essential service we all rely on. The cyber incident impacted the NHS 111 service – not the emergency 999 …
We have clients with impacted devices – so our team has been out checking and patching
We practice what we preach: DrayTek routers offer great value and functionality to many micro to medium businesses, so a flaw with them could be an issue to an organisation without IT or cybersecurity support: Critical RCE vulnerability impacts 29 models of DrayTek routers (bleepingcomputer.com)
Ransomware, the how and where and what your first step is in defending against it…
Here are a couple of stories showing that ransomware hits large and small organisations: Luxembourg energy companies struggling with alleged ransomware attack, data breach – The Record by Recorded Future At least 34 healthcare orgs affected by alleged ransomware attack on OneTouchPoint – The Record by Recorded Future The Bromford …
Chinese Hacktivism UPDATED
Nancy Pelosi, a senior United States politician and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, has now left after a short but controversial visit. China was not pleased about the visit. SANS has a report this morning on monitoring of Chinese reaction online – not blogs, news reactions, etc. …