Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I recently wrote a couple of articles looking at some real-world email phishing attacks aimed at me – the links are below. This article is about another that happened this past weekend. Email Phishing Attack – The “wear you down” tactic. One of the favourite tactics threat actors use is …
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Last week I wrote about a technically advanced, highly sophisticated cyber-attack in Hong Kong, that netted the attackers $25m – it all started with some simple social engineering pretexting. You may not have $25m in your bank account but here is the state of play of deep fake hacking What …
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Here is an interesting article from the National Cyber Security Centre about whether you should trust public QR codes. Now we have had experience with this. One of our clients found that someone had stuck a new QR code over the one they displayed in their window. When I investigated, …
This article by Oli Buckley, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of East Anglia and Jason Nurse, Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Kent takes a balanced look at how AI is starting to help threat actors create more believable attacks. Cybercriminals are creating their own …
That is a long title, but for this well financed, hi-tech cyber-attack it is appropriate. A worked at a multi-national company in Hong Kong was persuaded to transfer $200 million Hong Kong dollars to a variety of accounts, having been reassured by a group video call with the company’s CFO …
