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  • January

(31-01-23) Blog 31 – JD sports hit with cyber attack

Up to 10 million customers of retail giant JD Sports Fashion may have had their details compromised. This includes customers of JD sports, Size?, Millets, Blacks, Scotts, and MilletsSport, and relates...

Mark
31/01/2023
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  • January

(30-01-23) Blog 30 – “It’s an older code, sir, but it checks out.”

Security researchers at Palo Alto Network’s Unit-42 were working on a response to a Black Blasta ransomware attack recently, and in the process of doing so, uncovered a new variant of a RAT (Rem...

Mark
30/01/2023
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  • 365 days of blogs
  • January

(29-01-23) Blog 29 – “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” – Pt 2

The united states has put up a $10 million reward for intelligence on the identities and whereabouts of the Hive ransomware criminals – see my previous blog about the Hive take-down. The reward ...

Mark
29/01/2023
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  • 365 days of blogs
  • January

(28-01-23) Blog 28 – Who ya gonna call?

This is a re-working of blog I actually published via the company I work for about 2 years ago, but thought that I would revisit as the content is still very relevant today: Cyber Attacks on the rise ...

Mark
28/01/2023
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  • January

(27-01-23) Blog 27 – “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”

Yesterday saw the final step in a long campaign by global law-enforcement agencies to take down a RaaS (Ransomware as a Service) network called Hive. Operation Dawnbreaker Europol (The European Union ...

Mark
27/01/2023
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  • 365 days of blogs
  • January

(26-01-23) Blog 26 – You dirty RAT

A new Rat (Remote Access Trojan) has been identified which is infecting various machines and allows the attackers full control over a compromised device. Identified by threat analysis company Securoni...

Mark
26/01/2023
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  • 365 days of blogs
  • January

(25-01-23) Blog 25 – Another cautionary tale

Back in December last year – between December 6th and 8th to be more precise, PayPal discovered that they had been on the receiving end of a cyber attack. After conducting their internal investi...

Mark
25/01/2023
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  • January

(24-01-23) Blog 24 – A cautionary tale of default settings

For many years, many cyber security professionals (myself included) have droned on about the need for people to change their default passwords to something only they know. You know the ones: But what ...

Mark
24/01/2023
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  • January

(23-01-23) Blog 23 – VASTFlux malvertising operation taken down

A large-scale advertising fraud operation dubbed ‘Vastflux’ which has been predominantly targeting iOS users has been disrupted by security researchers at cyber-security company HUMAN. The...

Mark
23/01/2023
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  • January

(22-01-23) Blog 22 – wHy dO My dNS QuEriEs lOOk oDd?

In an attempt to further secure our online browsing activities, Google has started rolling out a new approach to DNS (Domain Name System) queries & responses. For those who are unsure about how DN...

Mark
22/01/2023
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