Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Threat actors, just like any other software developer, are always looking for ways to improve their software. In the case of threat actors this is often done to avoid the mitigation that software vendors have put in place to defend against the malware or patch a vulnerability the threat actors …
We will start with the good news – the zero-day threat Follina/msdt.exe has been patched. Let’s hope that it really is the fix we all need! Microsoft June 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes 1 zero-day, 55 flaws (bleepingcomputer.com) There are other fixes in the update, for Excel, Edge, Microsoft networking etc …
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The Emotet botnet started off as banking trojan then evolved into a spamming and malware delivery system, has now moved onto exfiltrating credit card data: Emotet malware gang shifts to stealing credit cards • The Register If you have your credit card details stored in your Google Chrome browser, the …
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I think the number is more than a quarter of the world’s population has a Facebook account, couple that with Meta’s international reputation for information security and ethics and so it is no surprise that it is a target for scammers and threat actors Facebook phishing campaign nets millions in …
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a joint advisory about Chinese state sponsored threats. People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploit Network Providers and Devices | CISA Chinese threat actors have been detected actively …
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