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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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(21-03-23) Blog 80 – Ransomware attacks too much faff? Go straight for extortion instead

Ransomware is big business, but for some threat actors, it’s not big enough. A large number of ransomware attacks tend to use the same encryption algorithms, or ones which have only been slightl...

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21/03/2023
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(20-03-23) Blog 79 – BreachForums admin arrested – site down

Federal agents in the US have arrested a man from Peekskill, New York who is suspected of being the administrator of the stolen-data sharing website breachForums. The administrator who uses the online...

Mark
20/03/2023
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(19-03-23) Blog 78 – Ransomware – the Internets’ biggest threat

If you’ve been following my blogs over the last few months, you’ll have spotted a recurring theme in many of them – ransomware. It’s a scourge of modern Inetrnet life and it ca...

Mark
19/03/2023
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(18-03-23) Blog 77 – Meta develops new Cyber Kill Chain

Meta, the parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp has released what they say is a new, more modern Cyber Kill Chain – A list of the stages and events by which threat actors prepa...

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18/03/2023
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(17-03-23) Blog 76 – Got a Samsung device? oh dear…

Google have recently announced that their zero-day research team (Project zero) have discovered and reported 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in the Exynos chipsets used in Samsung devices. This chipset is...

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17/03/2023
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(16-03-23) Blog 75 – DNS – it’s always DNS…

The Domain Name System (DNS) has been a crucial part of the Internet / WWW since its conception back in 1983. Invented by Paul Mockapetris whilst he was a member of the Information Sciences Institute ...

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16/03/2023
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(15-03-23) Blog 74 – Ransomware gang sinks to a new low

The perpetrators of ransomware attacks are pretty low with their moral standing, but a recent attack by the BlackCat gang shows that they can sink to some very low depths. In the blog I posted yesterd...

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15/03/2023
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(14-03-23) Blog 73 – MoaR Ransomware attacks

In this blog I’ll cover two breaking events which might be very significant in the coming weeks/months. If you’ve been following my posts over the last few months, you will have noticed a ...

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14/03/2023
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(13-03-23) Blog 72 – In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream

The (adapted) most iconic poster tagline for any film starts this blog*, and with good reason, a new variant of the Xenomorph banking trojan has been seen in the wild causing issues for Android users....

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13/03/2023
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(12-03-23) Blog 71 – NetWire admin tool exposed as malware

The FBI announced on Thursday (9th March) that they had seized a domain which had been used to sell a Network Remote Administration Tool which was actually a malicious application that allowed threat ...

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12/03/2023
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