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Posted on 7 May 20257 May 2025

Free Advice and Anti-virus

email phishing

Last week I had a prospective client take me up on our free 30 minute “ask me anything about your cyber security” Teams meeting. Things went well, she had some questions, I ran through my advice checklist with her – everyone was happy until I asked about their anti-virus – …

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Posted on 1 May 20251 May 2025

I was going to write about a WooCommerce attack…

ransomware

This one to be specific: WooCommerce admins targeted by fake security patches that hijack sites It is a phishing campaign, attacking the popular WordPress plugin WooCommerce, exploiting admins and their credentials with malicious security patches the admins think they must have – again a classic bit of threat actor social …

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Posted on 30 April 202530 April 2025

Under Pressure Social Engineering

delivery scammers

The scammers – sorry, cyber criminals – who masquerade as the delivery firm Evri, have been up to their old social engineering tricks again!  A couple of weeks back, whilst waiting for a delivery by Evri, I received a scam text message and I wrote about that experience here:  Delivery …

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Posted on 21 April 202524 April 2025

This is a good question…

a phishing attack needs to tempt you with bait

It’s 2025… so why are obviously malicious advertising URLs still going strong? – SANS Internet Storm Center The article by Jan Kopriva makes a number of excellent points about why threat actors continue with these types of social engineering attacks – but the bottom line is that lack of training …

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Posted on 10 April 202510 April 2025

Phishing attacks are not static

phishing email threat

Time to add another chapter to my Phishing Email Primer: It is being reported that threat actors have been using a new targeting tactic to sort through victims who have been ensnared by their social engineering attacks. When presented with the malicious credentials Window, only those high-value victims who have …

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