Do not be tempted to click on an offered PowerShell fix, for an apparent error in Microsoft Word, OneDrive or Google Chrome – it could be a social engineering trick to get you to install malware to your computer: Fake Google Chrome errors trick you into running malicious PowerShell scripts …
Tourist rebound after COVID-19 is an obvious target for phishing attacks
Research company Proofpoint, has shown that the threat actor, tracked as TA558, has increased it’s phishing campaigns targeted at hotel and travel companies, to coincide with the rapid increase in foreign travel as the pandemic decreases. Hackers target hotel and travel companies with fake reservations (bleepingcomputer.com) Threat actors are always …
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82% of Companies pay ransomware demands to get their data back – only 4% got it back – now sign up for our Cyber Security Master Class
The UK Government discourages organisations, hit by ransomware, from paying cyber criminals to get their information back. But we all knew it was happening. I was at a talk last week by Bruce Schneier, where he spoke about US companies keeping quiet about cyber-attacks if they could, even though in …
