Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
In December 2019, Maastricht University in the Netherlands, decided to pay the ransom, of €200,000 at the time, to release the data of over 22,00 students, the academics and the university administration. Maastricht University wound up earning money from its ransom payment (bleepingcomputer.com) Since then the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service …
It may be a new cyber gang but Luna Moth are using the oldest tricks in the book – phishing with social engineering to exploit user’s trust: New ‘Luna Moth’ hackers breach orgs via fake subscription renewals (bleepingcomputer.com) What you and your team need is an awareness of what social …
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This post was originally published on 8 July 2022 Update 12 July 2022 Microsoft says that this rollback of “stopping macros from the web being blocked, out of the box” is only temporary and it points out that admins can still implement this restriction through Group policies: Macros from the …
There are claims from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team that they have discovered a nearly undetectable strain of malware. The malware is contained in a CV for Roshan Bandara, but rather than the normal .pdf or Word file it is an image file -.iso. Near-undetectable malware linked …
This post was first published on 5 July 2022. The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, is calling for improved cyber security, in the country following the unprecedented alleged data theft by ChinaDan: Security warning after sale of stolen Chinese data – BBC News Details of the theft are starting to be …
