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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 22 December 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 22 December 2023:

-Majority of 2023’s Critical Cyber Attacks Stemmed from Fewer Than 1% of Vulnerabilities, with 1 in 4 High Risk Vulnerabilities Exploited Within 24 Hours of Going Public

-Ransomware Gangs Are Increasingly Turning to Remote Access Tools for Attacks, As UK Honeypots Attacked 17 Million Times Per Day

-Why Employees Are a Bigger Security Risk than Hackers

-77% of Financial Services Firms Detected a Cyber Attack in the Last Year, as Finance and Healthcare Continue to Suffer the Most Cyber Attacks

-New Report Data Shows 75% Increase in Suspicious Emails Hitting Inboxes

-Threat Actors Still Exploiting Old Unpatched Vulnerabilities

-Many Organisations Still Lack Formal Cyber Security Training

-Addressing the Growing Threat of Supply Chain Cyber Attacks

-Cyber Incident Costs Surge 11% as Budgets Remain Muted

-Attacks on Critical Infrastructure are Harbingers of War: Are We Prepared?

-UK Data Centres to be Classed as Critical Infrastructure Under New Gov Proposals

-Data Exfiltration and Extortion is the New Ransomware Threat, as 65% of Organisations Say Ransomware Concerns Impact Risk Management

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 10 March 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 10 March 2023:

-Business Email Compromise Attacks Can Take Just Hours

-Research Reveals ‘Password’ is Still the Most Common Term used by Hackers to Breach Enterprise Networks

-Just 10% of Firms Can Resolve Cloud Threats in an Hour

-MSPs in the Crosshair of Ransomware Gangs

-Stolen Credentials Increasingly Empower the Cyber Crime Underground

-It’s Time to Assess the Potential Dangers of an Increasingly Connected World

-Mounting Cyber Threats Mean Financial Firms Urgently Need Better Safeguards

-Developers Leaked 10m Credentials Including Passwords in 2022

-Cyber Threat Detections Surges 55% In 2022

-European Central Bank Tells Banks to Run Cyber Stress Tests after Rise in Hacker Attacks

-Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Business Data to ChatGPT

-Is Ransomware Declining? Not So Fast Experts Say

-Preventing Corporate Data Breaches Starts With Remembering That Leaks Have Real Victims

-Faced With Likelihood of Ransomware Attacks, Businesses Still Choosing to Pay Up

-Experts See Growing Need for Cyber Security Workers as One in Six Jobs go Unfilled

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Black Arrow Cyber Alert 07 March 2023 – ACTION REQUIRED: New Hiatus Hacking Campaign Targets DrayTek Routers to Spy on Businesses

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 05 August 2022

-Average Cost of Data Breaches Hits Record High of $4.35 Million: IBM

-Researchers Warns of Large-Scale Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) Attacks Targeting Enterprise Users

-UK NHS Suffers Outage After Cyber Attack on Managed Service Provider

-A Third of Organisations Experience a Ransomware Attack Once a Week

-Ransomware Products, Services Ads on Dark Web Show Clues to Danger

-Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing, How Malware Tricks Users and Antivirus

-Microsoft Accounts Targeted with New MFA-Bypassing Phishing Kit

-Cyber Attack Prevention Is Cost-Effective, So Why Aren’t Businesses Investing to Protect?

-Securing Your Move to the Hybrid Cloud

-Lessons from the Russian Cyber Warfare Attacks

-Four Sneaky Attacker Evasion Techniques You Should Know About

-Zero-Day Defence: Tips for Defusing the Threat

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Black Arrow Cyber Advisory 04/08/2022 – DrayTek provides patches for a critical vulnerability in their Vigor Routers

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 01 July 2022

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 01 July 2022:

-Ransomware Is the Biggest Global Cyber Threat. And The Attacks Are Still Evolving

-Study Reveals Traditional Data Security Tools Have a 60% Failure Rate Against Ransomware and Extortion

-Patchable and Preventable Security Issues Lead Causes of Q1 Attacks

-Three in Four Vulnerability Management Programs Ineffective, NopSec Research Finds

-EMEA Continues to Be a Hotspot for Malware Threats

-A New, Remarkably Sophisticated Malware Is Attacking Home and Small Office Routers

-What Are Shadow IDs, and How Are They Crucial in 2022?

-Zero-Days Aren't Going Away Anytime Soon & What Leaders Need to Know

-Half of 2022's Zero-Days Are Variants of Previous Vulnerabilities

-Human Error Remains the Top Security Issue

-Carnival Cruises Torpedoed by US States, Agrees to Pay $6m After Wave of Cyber Attacks

-Uber Ex-Security Chief Accused of Hacking Coverup Must Face Fraud Charges, Judge Rules

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 16 July 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 16 July 2021: 84% Of Orgs Experienced Phishing Or Ransomware Attacks In The Last Year; Phishing continues to be one of the easiest paths for ransomware; Only Half Of Orgs Can Defend Against Ransomware; MI5 Chief Warns Public Of Cyber-Threat From Hostile States Such As China & Russia; Almost All Orgs Suffered Insider Data Breaches; Cyber Crime Costs Orgs Nearly $1.79 Million Per Minute; Sonicwall Releases Urgent Notice About 'Imminent' Ransomware Targeting Firmware; Google Finds Zero-Day Security Flaws In All Your Favourite Browsers

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