Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
There is a highly completive market evolving to provide threat actors with malware that evades detection and then as quietly as possible exfiltrate sensitive data from the compromised system. This can include, cookies, session cookies, credentials, credit card and crypto-wallet data etc. The new info-stealing malware operations to watch out …
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…and a good news story about Facebook. The information stealing malware, NodeStealer spotted by the Facebook security team stealing Facebook user information and hijacking accounts – so they stepped in and blocked it. Facebook disrupts new NodeStealer information-stealing malware (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware exfiltrated session cookies from a range of the …
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Another school has been hit by ransomware. They tend to be soft targets for threat actors as they use a range of predictable applications, their IT teams are not large, IT tends not to be a priority and they have a large group of potential victims for phishing emails etc. …
This not not good reading – an increase in ransomware attacks: March 2023 broke ransomware attack records with 459 incidents (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway is – you need a plan for ransomware! If you’d like a little help with this have a look at my recent mini-series on ransomware: Ransomware – …
To increase the attack surface of this extortion ransomware attack threat actors did not go after a single organisation, they targeted and breached an IT company that was holding information for more than 140 organisations, much of it very sensitive: Cyber attack: Data from charities stolen in ransomware attack – …
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