So far in my 365 days of blogs, the biggest majority of my posts have been about the threats that face us when living in a digital world. So I thought it time to focus a bit more on the defensive side...
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...
A new RAT (Remote Access Trojan) has come on the scene which communicates via SMTP – The Simple Message Transfer Protocol to avoid detection by security tools. SMTP is vital in any network if yo...
In the past few years, a new, alternative to traditional passwords has started to be implemented by many services we use – most widely in banking. Rather than have to go through multiple securit...
US-based Cyber Security company BitSight have recently released a report about a botnet which is increasing its capability by over 50,000 newly infected devices every day. MyloBot has compromised thou...
The LockBit criminal gang has continued with its ransomware efforts with an attack on the water utility company of Portugal’s second-largest city – Porto. Águas e Energia do Porto said on Februa...
At the beginning of October last year, a number of websites under the control of the German government, including those of the office of the German Chancellor – Olaf Scholz, the German military,...
At the beginning of February, an encrypted messaging service that had been under investigation since 2019 was been shut down after a sweeping series of raids across Europe. In a search of 79 propertie...