It would have been difficult to miss the fact that Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op and Harrods have all suffered serious cyber-attacks recently. There has been speculation that the attacks originated from a phishing attack, as the hacking group DragonForce bragged in an email that they had hacked an employee …
Accountable Email Communications
Today, I want to look at one of the fundamentals of cyber security – accountability – in particular, I want to talk about email communications. Email communications Nearly thirty years ago, I sat in on a meeting of senior solicitors as they got to grips with how they were going …
Under Pressure Social Engineering
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 …
Phishing attacks are not static
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 …
Delivery Scam – follow up
No, not an explanation from Evri or AliExpress – not that I expected one from either of them following this article: But a useful advice article from the Google blog: Google shares tips to avoid email, phone, text and Search scams Your Takeaway Two things. Photo by Tara Winstead
