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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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....
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 ...