It looks like Elon Musk’s social network X has become the new favourite place for threat actors who want to distribute their malware, especially malicious crypto-malware. X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads (bleepingcomputer.com) Hackers hijack govt and business accounts on X for crypto scams (bleepingcomputer.com) …
You are still not sure a SOC will work for you?
Our Security Operations Centre will monitor your Microsoft 365 and other systems day and night continuously watching and reacting to suspicious activity – it is a great place to start if you want to truly improve credential security. John O’Mahony, one of the keynote speakers from the recent Connect London …
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CISA Security Patch Notices
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) site is one of the “go to places” for me and my team to keep up with vulnerabilities in our client’s software. Although aimed at the US Government and US users it is still really useful. Here is a round-up of …
A good news cyber security story
The police forces from seven nations, with Europol and Eurojust have broken up and arrested members of a ransomware gang that has been attributed with cyber-attacks in 71 countries. Police dismantle ransomware group behind attacks in 71 countries (bleepingcomputer.com) The operation based primarily in Ukraine with assistance for investigators from …
Russian offensive malware spreads outside Ukraine
We have not heard much recently about the cyber war between Ukraine and Russia but here is a story that illustrates what I have been saying about malware creep and collateral damage from deployed malware weapons. By the very nature of online commerce and communications these cyber-weapons will spread outside …
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