If you want to know what a malicious phishing email and Word document looks like and how it functions, have a read of this article by Xavier Mertens on SANS Internet Strom. Infostealer Embedded in a Word Document – SANS Internet Storm Center It uses a simple technique to get …
Phishing emails – can you recognise them?
Phishing emails with a carefully scripted social engineering message, a malicious .pdf file with links to malware stored in Firebase Storage on Google. Brad Duncan on SANS InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog has the full story including screenshots of the phishing email and the steps to infection: Recent IcedID (Bokbot) activity …
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Apple – patch everything
This includes some older iPhones and iPads – with iOS 15 and 16 and iPadOS 15 and 16 getting updates – and the Studio Display: Apple Updates Everything – SANS Get them done. Not sure you need to do this? Here is an example of a data stealer specifically aimed …
Infected and you didn’t even know it…
When I am delivering the cyber awareness training – and people relax, realising I really mean it when I say there are no stupid questions – I often get asked “how do I know if my computer was infected?”. Usually just before being asked about the length of a piece …
How do hackers get into secure networks?
Here is a clue – social engineering. I am often asked this by clients, especially those who I am suggesting need to up their cyber security game. Here is a very good article by the cyber security expert Brian Krebs looking in detail at the recent high profile data breaches …
