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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 22 September 2023:

-New Ransomware Victims Surge by 47% as Small Businesses Targeted

-MGM Resorts Lost Millions of Dollars a Day in What Should be a Wakeup Call for Corporate Boards

-SMEs Overestimate Their Cyber Security Preparedness

-China’s Hacking Power Bigger Than Rest of World Combined

-Cyber Insurance Claims for Ransomware Reach Record High

-Cyber Security Still Remains the Greatest Concern for Many C-Suite Executives

-Bad Torts: Law Firms Feel the Heat from Rising Cyber Threats

-Attacker Deepfakes IT Employees’ Voice in Phone Call to Breach Company

-Insider Risks are Getting Increasingly Costly as Organisations Fail to Proactively Address Them

-Half of Executives Expect Supply Chain Challenges

-How Social Engineering Takes Advantage of Your Kindness

-Employers Blame Employees as 54% of Firms Face Cyber Attacks Annually

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 15 September 2023:

-Overconfident Organisations Prone to Cyber Breaches

-Board Members Struggling to Understand Cyber Risks

-Cyber Criminals are Targeting Top Executives and Could be Using Sensitive Information to Extort Them

-Cyber Attacks Reach Fever Pitch in Q2 2023

-Ransomware Attacks Hit Record Levels in UK as More Companies Fail to Tackle Growing Threats

-Microsoft Warns of More Attacks as Ransomware Spreads Through Teams Phishing

-Europol - Financial Crime Makes “Billions” and Impacts “Millions”

-Almost One in Three Parents Have Never Spoken to Their Children About Cyber Security

-Hackers are Dropping USB Drives Outside Buildings to Target Networks

-Data Theft is Now the No. 1 Cyber Security Threat Keeping Execs Awake at Night

-If You Didn’t Change Your Passwords After the LastPass Data Breach, Do It Now

-Cloud Vulnerabilities Surge Nearly 200% as Cloud Credentials Become the New Hot Ticket on the Dark Web

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