The Council has had to send out thousands of letter following being caught up in the security breach at Capita. Colchester City Council contacts 7,000 people after data hack – BBC News Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the country offering a wide range of services that businesses, organisations, …
Qbot evolves and some very basic cyber security advice!
Qbot is a long establish bit of malware that has been evolving to exploit the changing threat landscape. It started life over a decade ago as a banking trojan and the latest version the latest version employs a sophiscated command and control infrastructure to deliver a range of malware to …
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Realistic Cyber Security
As you probably know, if you follow this blog, I was in Edinburgh last week at the 6th Intl. Conference on Big Data, Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure held at the Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University. For my post this week I wanted to share one positive thing I got from …
Stealing your data is a priority for threat actors
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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What can be stolen in a cyber attack
Capita the largest business process outsourcing company in the UK was breached (read about that here). The company is now having to advise it’s clients that their data was stolen and personal data of their clients is in the hands of threat actors. Capita warns customers they should assume data …
