Today sees an update about the ongoing LockBit saga. Readers of my posts over the last year will know that I have written many times about the antics of this threat actor, and some of the devastating ...
In the previous post, I covered the SMB protocol and how it has become one of the most widely used protocols in modern networks in one form or another regardless of operating system used. This post co...
Server Message Block (SMB) is one of the most important protocols in computer history – it facilitates the sharing of multiple resources in IT networks – printers, computers, files, and mu...
Today (29th April 2024) sees the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) become enforced in the UK – something that should help make consumer devices safer to use....
Mandiant – the Google-owned Cyber Security company have released an in-depth exposé on the Russian threat actor group known as APT44, more commonly known as Sandworm. The full 40-page report can...
For those who don’t keep up to date with the world of IT – back in late March, Andres Freund, a developer working at Microsoft noticed some odd behaviour in the login process of an SSH con...
Saturday the 28th October 2023 was a very dark day for The British Library – it was a day that they are still trying to fully recover from, it was the day they found out they had been compromise...
The other day, I posted about AlphaV and their attack against Change Healthcare. (link) Just 2 days later, the posting on the AlphaV website disappeared – an indicator that a ransom had been pai...
AlphaV – the cyber-criminal gang temporarily disrupted last year by the FBI have been steadily working their way back to being a major player in the ransomware field. Their latest attack has bee...
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the news recently, you’ll know by now that the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), aided by law enforcement teams from the FBI and Europol have claimed...