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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 19 February 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 19 February 2021: Masslogger Swipes Outlook & Chrome Credentials; Phishers trick LinkedIn users; Solarwinds Attack ‘Largest And Most Sophisticated Attack’ Ever; Ransomware gangs are running riot, paying them off doesn’t help; Most security bugs in the wild are years old; Hacker Claims Files Stolen from Prominent Law Firm; 100+ Financial Services Firms Targeted in Ransom DDoS Attacks in 2020; 14 million alleged Amazon and eBay account details sold online; Think backups will protect you from ransomware? What do you think gets attacked first?

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 29 January 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 29 January 2021: Phishing Attacks Show High-Ranking Execs ‘Most Valuable Asset’ and ‘Greatest Vulnerability’; Paying Ransomware Funding Organised Crime; Police take down botnet that hacked millions of computers; After SolarWinds Hack, Who Knows What Cyber Dangers We Face; Russian businesses warned of retaliatory cyber attacks; iOS vulns actively exploited; Top Cyber Attacks of 2020

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 11 December 2020

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 11 December 2020: Cyber crime costs the world more than $1 trillion, 50% increase from 2018; One of the world's largest security firms breached; Chinese Breakthrough in Quantum Computing a Warning for Security Teams; Ransom payouts hit record-highs, surging 178% in a year; Ransomware Set to Continue to Evolve

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Cyber Threat Briefing 16 October 2020: ransomware tidal wave; notable ransomware victims from the last week; BEC Attacks: Nigeria no longer epicentre, losses top $26B; Trickbot back; MS fix 87 vulns

Cyber Threat Briefing 16 October 2020: ransomware tidal wave of attacks; Notable ransomware victims of the last week; BEC Attacks: Nigeria No Longer the Epicentre as Losses top $26B; Trickbot back after disruption attempts; Microsoft October 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 87 vulnerabilities; Malware gangs love open source offensive hacking tools

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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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Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 15 May 2020: Attacks on UK up 30% in Q1, 238% surge against banks, Microsoft fixes 111 vulns, Adobe patches 36 vulns, Thunderspy, 73m user records for sale on dark web

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 15 May 2020: Attacks on UK up 30% in Q1, 238% surge against banks, Microsoft fixes 111 vulns, Adobe patches 36 vulns, Thunderspy, 73m user records for sale on dark web

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Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 01 May 2020 – 50% of users feel vulnerable WFH, yet many have had no infosec training in last year, spear-phishing compromises execs in 150+ companies, Sophos zero-day

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing for 01 May 2020 – Half of users feel vulnerable WFH and many have had no infosec training in last year, spear-phishing compromises execs in 150+ companies, Chrome vulns, Sophos firewall zero-day exploited

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Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing for 11 April 2020 – NCSC advisory on COVID activity, Travelex pays $2.3M ransom, Zoom tries to get better, Shadow IT risks, Unkillable Android malware, Bot traffic up

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing for 11 April 2020 – NCSC advisory on COVID activity, Travelex pays $2.3M ransom, Zoom tries to get better, Shadow IT risks, Unkillable Android malware, Bot traffic up

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Week in review 27 October 2019: gang posing as Russian Government hackers are extorting financial service companies, ransomware & mobile malware to surge in 2020, younger staff pose security risk

Week in review 27 October 2019: gang posing as Russian Government hackers are extorting financial service companies, ransomware & mobile malware to surge in 2020, younger staff pose security risk

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