Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Although the attack on NHS systems, back in August was contained, the systems hit are still not fully funstional: Oxford Health: Cyber attack continues to hit NHS trust’s services – BBC News The NHS 111 non-emergency/first call service was infected by ransomware and severely disrupted and the disruption is still …
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Many office and web based applications, both commercial and bespoke use SQL servers of varying flavours – you or your cyber security consultant should know if your organisation is dependent on a Microsoft SQL server and what actions have been taken to protect it. Here is the threat, ransomware targeting …
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Your awareness of how ransomware evolves and works and the tactics being used by the ransomware gangs that deploy the malware, will help improve your cyber security. Here is one of those inside stories researched by the Threat Hunter Team at Symantec. Noberus Ransomware: Darkside and BlackMatter Successor Continues to …
As you have read ransomware has been in the news for because one of the major ransomware gangs, BlackCat/ALPHV updated and expanded its capability to carry out the double extortion tactic and because another major ransomware player LockBit suffered an insider attack of its own: The threat actors are also …
Threat actors are always changing their malware and tactics to evade the technical solutions the anti-virus and other security solution vendors distribute. So it is no surprise that malware gets patches and updates as well: Colonial Pipeline hackers add startling new capabilities to ransomware operation – The Record by Recorded …
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