American Airlines data breach due to employee email accounts being compromised

American Airlines had to write to customers to explain that personal data had been stolen through a cyber-attack – although they did state in the letter that there was no evidence of that personal data having been misused! I would like to see their evidence of that, because I think …

Phishing wave after Revolut security is compromised and personal information is stolen

Following a breach of security of the international financial technology company Revolut, which was quickly dealt with by their security team, over 50,000 client accounts were compromised and information stolen. Although information such as, email addresses, phone numbers, account data and some limited credit/debit card data was stolen, PIN, detailed …

Every major event will attract cyber criminals. What is your organisation doing on Monday 19 September?

The Queen

The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the associated ceremonies and period of national mourning will be no exception: Potential phishing activity update – NCSC.GOV.UK The National Cyber Security Centre has issued a warning that the potential for malicious phishing, social engineering and scam cyber-attacks is very high …

Phishing attacks will become easier for the threat actors and harder for you defend against

There is no doubt that threat actors are becoming more organised, with skilled organisations, not only carrying out attacks, but suppling highly capable hacking tools to less skilled organisations – fo a cut of the illicit profits: New EvilProxy service lets all hackers use advanced phishing tactics (bleepingcomputer.com) This one …

Malware in redistributed James Webb Space telescope images – but we use JWST images here at Smart Thinking!

James Webb Telescope

Here is a story that shows you always have to keep your guard up when dealing with cyber-security, as the threat landscape is constantly changing and the threat actors will always choose vectors that are in the news. This particular attack comes right back here to Smart Thinking – malware …