This is a social engineering combining a phishing email and an attached voicemail file – that can evade many security systems, including Microsoft’s and Google’s, as it appears to be from a legitimate source. Hackers employ voicemail phishing attacks on WhatsApp users | TechRepublic Our Social Engineering and Email Cyber …
Borat is a triple threat RAT
Nothing to do with Sacha Baron Cohen. A remote access trojan, (RAT), is a holy grail of an infection for a hacker to get onto your system, as this powerful cyber crime tool allows full access and control of an infected system. Once a hacker has this much control they …
The Works suffer a cyber attack – training is the key defence
The Works forced to shut some shops after cyber-attack – BBC News So far The Works is saying that no customer data has been compromised. There are some notable quotes in this article: “The Works should serve as an example to other companies.” “…staff should carry out training to highlight …
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Even the world’s biggest companies get suckered by social engineering
Both Apple and Meta were the victims of social engineering scams that caused them to simply giveaway user personal information. I am not going to call this sophisticated – actually it was quite simple – the cyber criminals, studied how an Emergency Data Requests (EDR) operated and then spoofed that …
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Because It’s Friday. I have an interest in flying cars – doesn’t everyone?
I have written about technology and flying cars on the Octagon blog a number of times – so I was please to find this article for our “Because It’s Friday” feature: From the Delorean to the Batmobile, these are the cars that shaped film history | Ars Technica Some of …
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