Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
It is not really a surprise, with the exponential rise in home shopping and deliveries because of the pandemic, that the delivery service DHL is the most impersonated organisation when it comes to cyber attacks: DHL named most-spoofed brand in phishing • The Register Microsoft and LinkedIN are close behind. …
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I write a lot about phishing emails and social engineering attacks, because it is probably the way threat actors could most easily get malware inside your defences and from there compromise your security, your information and ultimately your wallet! The Berkshire based construction company, Interserve Group Ltd, with an employee …
Yesterday CyberAwake published my article looking at how snippets of information can leak out of a company and aid a threat actor:
I really liked this article. I have covered various highly involved cyber attacks over the last few months, deepfakes, hacking cars, air–gap attacks but as it describes in this article, you can use technology to steal those credentials or you can just ask nicely for them: Phishing works so well …
The threat actors will go after anyone who they can exploit, steal credentials from, or who has something the criminal wants! In this case it is workers for the forthcoming US elections. This one is targetting people in a privileged position: US election workers hit with phishing, malware emails • …
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