Your awareness of how ransomware evolves and works and the tactics being used by the ransomware gangs that deploy the malware, will help improve your cyber security. Here is one of those inside stories researched by the Threat Hunter Team at Symantec. Noberus Ransomware: Darkside and BlackMatter Successor Continues to …
Because It’s Friday – these are my frustrations when rotating my iPhone when browsing files in the OneDrive app
What does that rambling title actually mean? I use OneDrive and SharePoint for storing nearly everything, and I give files long file names. Who remembers to days when we had to name that file in eight characters? So, when I am browsing for a in portraits mode, the first part …
AirTag Abuse and Cyber Stalking
A gadget the size of a 10p coin, the AirTag was intended to help people find their keys. Instead it has facilitated a boom in terrifying behaviour from abusers Anna Moore – The Guardian 5 September 2022 AirTags – a great idea but a privacy nightmare. Worse than that, they …
If you are better informed on the how, what and where of ransomware attacks, you will be better equipped on what decisions you need to take to defend against it.
Here is an article from last week that is an in depth look at the Vice Society hacking gang’s operations. It was issued by the following US government agencies; the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center …
So, what has ransomware done this week?
There are always ransomware stories in the technical press – and even one of two that get into the mainstream press, but of course for all of these headliners, smaller companies and micro-businesses get hit by ransomware but do not make the news. That could be you! BlackCat ransomware claims …