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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…or is it ransomware? Today is the Tuesday after the Easter Bank Holiday weekend and we should have had our weekly staff meeting – I thought we should have incident response training. Because of work commitments, the CEO being in Spain and two of our team on leave and driving …
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ChatGPT has been used for homework, writing radio programmes, academic papers, articles, coding, hacking etc. etc. etc.. Here are some of the most recent articles examining privacy and cyber crime using artificial intelligence, of which the adapting, convincing email scams is probably the issue that organisations need to think about …
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Ransomware can happen to any organisation. Tanbridge House School in West Sussex has paid an unstated fee to keep their information out of the public domain and secret following a ransomware attack. Students and teachers at English high school impacted by ransomware attack (therecord.media) However The Ransom House cyber criminals still …
This is a continuation of last week’s article that looked at stealth malware infection from a malicious phishing email. Phishing Emails I spend a lot of my time writing and talking about malicious phishing emails. It is the easiest attack vector into your organisation that a threat actor has access …
