Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
I have written a lot about the fact that many cyber attacks include an element of social engineering, to tease the victim into lowering their guard and doing what the threat actor wants. Here is an excellent example of that, described by Xavier Mertens on SANS Internet Storm, where the …
