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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 01 December 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 01 December 2023:

-Law Firms Face Surge in Targeted Attacks as Hundreds Impacted by Single Attack

-Approach Cyber Security Awareness Training by Engaging People at All Levels

-Board Support Remains Critical as Majority of CISOs Experience Repeat Cyber Attacks

-Ransomware Attacks Surge 81% in October as New Threat Actors Emerge

-Hacked Microsoft Word Documents Being Used to Trick Windows Users

-Mitigating Deepfake Threats in The Corporate World

-Black Basta Ransomware Made Over $100 Million From Extortion Alone

-Long Recovery Times After Cyber Attacks Could Annihilate Your Organisation

-Booking.com Customers Scammed in Novel Social Engineering Campaign

-Stop Panic Buying Your Security Products and Start Prioritising

-A Fifth of UK SMBs Unable to Spot Scams

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 03 September 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 03 September 2021

-Ransomware Attacks Soar 288% in H1 2021

-Ransomware Costs Expected To Reach $265 Billion By 2031

-Brute Force Email Attacks and Account Takeover Attempts Rise 671%, Reaching Unprecedented Levels, Causing Financial And Reputational Damage

-Investigation Into Hacked "Map" Of UK Gun Owners

-Eight US Financial Services Firms Given Six-Figure Fines Over BEC Data Breaches

-Ransomware Has Been A ‘Game Changer’ For Cyber Insurance

-WhatsApp hit with $267 million GDPR fine for bungling user privacy disclosure

-Microsoft Warns About Open Redirect Phishing Campaign

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 28 May 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 28 May 2021: Cyber Insurance Firms Start Tapping Out As Ransomware Continues To Rise; Irish Health Service Faces Final Bill Of At Least €100M Following Cyber Attack; The 10 Most Dangerous Cyber Threat Actors; Dramatic Increase In Ransomware Attacks Is Causing Harm On A Significant Scale; Deepfakes Could Be The Next Big Security Threat To Businesses; Two-Thirds Of Organisations Say They'll Take Action To Boost Their Ransomware Defences

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 27 November 2020

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 27 November 2020: Hundreds of C-level executives’ credentials available for $100 to $1500; Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes; Three members of TMT cybercrime group arrested in Nigeria; Cyber criminals make £2.5m raid on law firms in lockdown; Hackers post athletes’ naked photos online

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Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 18 Sept 2020: Higher cyber losses; old MS Office exploit; banking Trojan given away free; new Bluetooth flaw; IoT risks; DDoS attacks up; US charge Iranians & Russians

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 18 September 2020: Cyber losses increasing in frequency & severity, decade-old MS Office exploit, Cerberus banking Trojan released for free to attackers, Bluetooth vulnerability affects billions of devices, The Internet of Things devices that could put you at risk from hackers

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Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 22 May 2020: EasyJet say 9m customers hacked, firm phishes its own staff and 20% fail, 60% insider threats involve staff planning to leave, 1 in 10 WFH Brits breach GDPR

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 22 May 2020: EasyJet say 9m customers hacked, firm phishes its own staff and 20% fail, 60% insider threats involve staff planning to leave, 1 in 10 WFH Brits breach GDPR

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