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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 30 June 2023
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 30 June 2023:
-Zurich Insurance Group Secures Data Leak After Leaving Sensitive Data Publicly Accessible
-Employees Worry Less About Cyber Security Best Practices in the Summer
-Businesses are Ignoring Third-Party Security Risks
-Fear Trumps Anger When It Comes to Data Breaches – Angry Customers Vent, But Fearful Customers Don’t Come Back
-Over 130 Organisations and Millions of Individuals Believed to Be Impacted by MOVEit Hack, it Keeps Growing
-Widespread BEC Attacks Threaten European Organisations
-Lloyd’s Syndicates Sued Over Cyber Insurance
-95% Fear Inadequate Cloud Security Detection and Response
-The Growing Use of Generative AI and the Security Risks They Pose
-The CISO’s Toolkit Must Include Political Capital Within The C-Suite
-Microsoft Warns of Widescale Credential Stealing Attacks by Russian Hackers as War Ministers Reliant on Cyber Crime
-SMBs Plagued by Exploits, Trojans and Backdoors
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 14 April 2023
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 14 April 2023:
-Almost Half of Former Employees Say Their Passwords Still Work
-Efficient Risk Based Patch Management Means Eliminating Just 2% of Exposures Could Protect 90% of Critical Assets
-Printers Pose Persistent Yet Overlooked Threat
-Employees Are as Likely as Cyber Criminals to Cause Cyber Incidents
-Over 90% of Organisations Find Threat Hunting a Challenge
-75% of Organisations Have Suffered a Cyber Security Breach
-Leak Shows Evolving Russian Cyber War Capabilities
-Outsourced Payroll and HR Services Firm Forced to Shut Down After Cyber Attack
-When a Cyber Criminal Steals Personal Data from Your Organisation What Do You Do and Who Do You Need to Inform?
-Insider Threat and Ransomware: A Growing Issue
-How LockBit Changed Cyber Security Forever
-Hybrid Work Environments Are Stressing CISOs
-Protect Your Data with a USB Condom
-Strategising Cyber Security: Why a Risk-based Approach is Key
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 31 March 2023
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 31 March 2023:
-Phishing Emails Up a Whopping 569% in 2022
-The End User Password Mistakes Putting Your Organisation at Risk
-Millions of Penetration Tests Show Companies’ Security Postures are Getting Worse
-71% of Employees Keep Work Passwords on Personal Devices
-Cyber Crime Frontlines in Russia-Ukraine War Move to Eastern and Northern Europe
-Security Flaws Cost Fifth of Executive’s Businesses
-Companies Struggle to Build and Run Effective Programs to Protect Data from Insider Threats
-Only 10% of Workers Remember All Their Cyber Security Training
-Silence Gets You Nowhere in a Data Breach
-Just 1% of Cloud Permissions are Actively Used
-Dangerous Misconceptions About Emerging Cyber Threats
-‘Grim’ Criminal Abuse of ChatGPT is Coming, Europol Warns
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 24 March 2023
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 24 March 2023:
-Majority of SMBs Lack Dedicated Cyber Experts and Cyber Incident Response Plans
-Controlling Third-Party Data Risk Should Be a Top Cyber Security Priority
-IT Security Spending to Reach Nearly $300 Billion by 2026
-2023 Cyber Security Maturity Report Reveals Organisational Unpreparedness for Cyber Attacks
-Board Cyber Shortage: Don’t Get Caught Swimming Naked
-Should Your Organisation Be Worried About Insider Threats?
-UK Ransomware Incident Volumes Surge 17% in 2022
-Financial Industry Hit by Rising Ransomware Attacks and BEC
-55 zero-day Flaws Exploited Last Year Show the Importance of Security Risk Management
-Security Researchers Spot $36m BEC Attack
-New Victims Come Forward After Mass Ransomware Attack
-Ransomware Gangs’ Harassment of Victims is Increasing
-Wartime Hacktivism is Spilling Over Into the Financial Services Industry
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 17 March 2023
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 17 March 2023:
-Almost Half of IT Leaders Consider Security as an Afterthought
-Over $10bn Lost To Online Frauds, with Pig Butchering and Investment Scams Accounting for $3B, Overtaking BEC – FBI Report Says
-Over 721 Million Passwords Were Leaked in 2022
-How Much of a Cyber Security Risk are Suppliers?
-90% of £5m+ Businesses Hit by Cyber Attacks
-Rushed Cloud Migrations Result in Escalating Technical Debt
-17 European Nations Targeted by Russia in 2023 as Espionage Ramping Up
-Microsoft Warns of Large-Scale Use of Phishing Kits
-BEC Volumes Double on Phishing Surge
-The Risk of Pasting Confidential Company Data in ChatGPT
-Ransomware Attacks have Entered a New Phase
-MI5 Launches New Agency to Tackle State-Backed Attacks
-Why Cyber Awareness Training is an Ongoing Process