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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 03 May 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 03 May 2024:

-Most Attacks Impacting SMB’s Target Older, Unpatched Vulnerabilities

-91% of Ransomware Victims Paid At least One Ransom in the Past Year, as 1 in 5 Ransomware Attacks Triggers Lawsuit

-BEC and Fund Transfer Fraud Top Insurance Claims

-Correlating Cyber Investments with Business Outcomes

-Vulnerability Exploitation up 180%, 68% of Breaches involved Humans and Supply Chain Weak Link

-MOVEit & Change Healthcare Attacks Designated as Cyber Catastrophe Loss Events by Insurer

-Securing Your Organisation’s Supply Chain: Reducing the Risks of Third Parties

-Why Remote Desktop Tools are Facing an Onslaught of Cyber Threats

-95% of Organisations Revamped Cyber Security Strategies in the Last Year: Make Sure Yours is Right

-Human Factor a Significant Risk for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.

-Microsoft CEO Says it is Putting Security Above All Else in Major Refocus

-Ending the Culture of Silence in Cyber Security; Three Ways to Empower Teams

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 15 March 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 15 March 2024:

-Mind The Gap - Mimecast Report Finds Humans Are Biggest Security Flaw

-Three-Quarters of Cyber Victim Are SMBs - Why SMBs are Becoming More Vulnerable

-Cyber Security Skills Gap and Lack of Boardroom Engagement Invite Hacker Havoc

-UK Government’s Ransomware Failings Leave Country ‘Exposed and Unprepared’

-Data Breaches up 72% to New Record High: Cyber Security Incidents Rank as #1 Global Business Threat in 2024

-Finance Sector Facing Huge Number of Cyber Attacks That Could Leave It On its Knees, Highlights the Need to Build a Robust Security Culture

-Microsoft Confirms Russian Hackers Stole Source Code, Some Customer Secrets

-Independent Cyber Security Audits Are Powerful Tools for Boards

-Navigating Cyber Security in The Era of Mergers

-Phishing Tactics Evolve as Sophisticated Vishing and Image-based Phishing Take World by Storm

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 08 March 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 08 March 2024:

-FBI Reports Cyber Crime Losses Reached $12.5 billion in 2023, Ransomware Losses Surged by 74%, Average Ransomw Demand Reaching $600k

-Capita Plans £100 Million in Cost Cuts as it Continues to Grapple With 2023 Cyber Attack, Resulting in Significant Job Losses

-Employment Law Firm Sues IT Company Over Ransomware Attack

-Stolen Passwords are a Hacker Goldmine

-Phishing Attacks Up 40 Percent in 2023; Attackers Leverage Social Engineering for Greater Success

-Business Leaders Don’t Even Know They’ve Been Hacked

-Rising Cyber Security Risks: Insider Threat Main Concern Among Mid-Market Firms

-Security Risks Plague SMEs in Shift to Remote Working

-After Collecting $22 Million, Ransomware Group Stages FBI Takedown

-Cyber Attacks Remain Chief Concern for Businesses

-Two New Ransomware Groups Join Forces to Launch Joint Attacks

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 09 February 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 09 February 2024:

-Over Half of Companies Experienced Cyber Security Incidents Last Year

-Deepfake Video Conference Costs Business $25 Million

-Watershed Year for Ransomware as Victims Rose by Almost 50% and Payments Hit $1 Billion All-Time High

-Malware-as-a-Service Now the Top Threat to Organisations

-Over 9 in 10 UK Firms Who Fell Victim to Ransomware Paid the Ransom, Despite Alleged “No Pay” Stances

-Chinese State Hackers Hid in National Infrastructure for at Least 5 Years

-Email Attacks on Businesses Tripled and AI is a Huge Contributing Factor

-Security Leaders, C-Suite Unite to Tackle Cyber Threats

-UN Experts Investigate Cyber Attacks by North Korea that Raked in $3 Billion to Build Nuclear Weapons

-What Does a ‘Cyber Security Culture’ Actually Entail?

-Beyond Checkboxes: Security Compliance as a Business Enabler

-No One in Cyber Security Is Ready for the SolarWinds Prosecution

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 02 February 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 02 February 2024:

-The Financial Sector Is Plagued by Increasingly Sophisticated Cyber Attacks That Demand a Defensive Paradigm Shift

-The $10 Billion Cyber Insurance Industry Sees a Dangerous Year in Cyber Crime Ahead. AI, Ransomware, and War are its Biggest Concerns

-Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Used Known Identified Tactics to Breach Senior Exec Emails

-Old Methods, New Tricks: Cyber Criminals Are Still Using Social Engineering to Steal Your Credentials

-UK Government Unveils New Cyber Threat Guidelines as 32% of Firms Suffer Attacks in Past Year

-94% of Organisations Would Pay a Ransom, Despite Having ‘Do Not Pay’ Policies, as 79% Faced an Attack in 2023

-Interpol Arrests More than 30 Cyber Criminals in Global Operation

-Divide and Succeed: Splitting IT and Security Makes Business Sense

-Ransomware Groups Gain Clout with False Attack Claims

-Payment Fraud is Hitting Organisations Harder Than Ever Before

-Chinese Hacking Operations Have Entered a Far More Dangerous Phase, US Warns

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 29 December 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 29 December 2023:

-UK Ministers Publicly State Fears of Potential Widescale Power Grid Disruptions

-Countries Brace for Influence Operations, AI and Hacking Campaigns Ahead of Historic 2024 Election Year, Could Upset World Balance

-The Most Popular Passwords of 2023 are Easy to Guess and Crack

-Dangerous Malware Pretends to be Some of Your Most Used Business Software

-MFA Helps You Stay Resilient, But Nothing is a Silver Bullet

-Ransomware Leak Site Victims Reached Record-High in November

-MOVEit, Capita, CitrixBleed and More: The Biggest Data Breaches of 2023

-Europol Warns 443 Online Shops Infected with Credit Card Stealers

-Physical Access Systems Open Door to IT Networks

-Simple Hacking Techniques Prove Successful in 2023 Cyber Attacks

-Daily Malicious Files Rise to 411,000 a day in 2023

-Android Malware Actively Infecting Devices to Take Full Control

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Black Arrow Adminnational risk register, national grid, nordpass, gartner, carbanak, hubspot, veeam, xero, uber, okta, ea, mgm resorts, moveit, capita, citrixbleed, citrix, black hat, kaspersky, nissan, hcl, rockstar, xeinadin, skynet, peach sandstorm, battleroyal, darkgate, msix, uac-900, winrar, longpage, xamalicious, barracuda, kimsuky, instegogram, appleseed, tiktok, chameleon, loancare, insomniac, ubisoft, rhode island prison, mint mobile, yakult, national amusements, cbs, paramount, eagers automotive, kyber, pink drainer, cmmc, cloud atlas, unc4841, ofbiz, nasa, integris health, lonepage, rugmi, steam, clfs, black arrow cyber, black arrow, threat intelligence, osint, ncsc, national cyber security centre, cpni, mi5, gchq, cert, nca, national crime agency, europol, interpol, enisa, nato, cyber, information security, it security, cyber warfare, russia, north korea, china, iran
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 Adminparis water agency, kubernetes, ssndob, dollar tree, general electric, ray, qilin, nassau bay, gloucestershire, cts, a&o, allen & overy, ibm, ncc group, deepfake, black basta, booking.com, vidar infostealer, secureworks, uk finance, sysjoker, onedrive, fidelity national, ardent health, henry schein, dp world, staples, stanford university, london and zurich, british library, zoom, google chrome, zyxel, owncloud, uber, allianz, moveit, graham cluley, djvu, xaro, cactus, qlik sense, rhysida, hse, yanfeng, telekopye, threatlabz, chatgpt, genai, redline, scrubcrypt, gh0st rat, logofail, namedrop, okta, gulf air, radware, nxp, killnet, motorola, meta, sec, solarwinds, colp, shadowy, rust, deloitte, kpmg, konni, macos, openssl, splunk, zscaler, bluffs, bluetooth, black arrow cyber, black arrow, threat intelligence, osint, ncsc, national cyber security centre, cpni, mi5, gchq, cert, nca, national crime agency, europol, interpol, enisa, nato, cyber, information security, it security, cyber warfare, russia, north korea, china, iran
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 10 November 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 10 November 2023:

-Boardroom Woes on Ransomware Intensify as Organisations Face an Average of 86 Ransomware-linked Events Annually

-Many SMBs Have No Real Way to Deal with Cyber Threats, Leaving Them Vulnerable

-Cyber Attacks Top Global Risk – 2023 Aon Survey

-To Improve Cyber Defences, Practice for Disaster

-Meet Your New Cyber Security Auditor: Your Insurer

-Allen and Overy Suffer Ransomware Attack

-Shadow IT Remains a Top Threat, as Shown by Attack on Okta

-Ransomware, AI, and Social Engineering All Set to Be 2024's Biggest Security Threats

-Cyber Governance: Growing Expectations for Information Security Oversight and Accountability

-Generative AI Will Level Up Cyber Attacks, According to New Google Report

-Public Wi-Fi Remains a Huge Risk, is Your Organisation Prepared?

-88% of Security Leaders Think Their Organisation Is Falling Short Addressing Cyber Security

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Black Arrow Adminimperial kitten, raidforums, operation monopoly, securidropper, jupyter, stripedfly, magic circle, akamai, aon, allen overy, lockbit, x, twitter, okta, zerofox, sec, foundry, solarwinds, allianz, atlassian, farnetwork, gootbot, moveit, apache activemq, icbc, mr cooper, marina bay, dolly.com, transform, chatgpt, meta, 23andme, gootloader, google calendar rat, bluenoroff, blazestealer, openai, cloudflare, hilb, monero project, hiscox, looney tunables, lego, nis2, trinidad tobago, sandworm, aws, confluence, veeam one, tellyouthepass, android 14, microsoft authenticator, israel, gaza, black arrow cyber, black arrow, threat intelligence, osint, ncsc, national cyber security centre, cpni, mi5, gchq, cert, nca, national crime agency, europol, interpol, enisa, nato, cyber, information security, it security, cyber warfare, russia, north korea, china, iran
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 03 November 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 03 November 2023:

-Surviving a Ransomware Attack Begins by Acknowledging it’s Inevitable

-Are You and Your Clients Soft Targets?

-Cyber Attacks Cause Revenue Losses in 42% of Small Businesses

-Executives May be The Biggest Risk to Your Business

-Organisations Can Only Stop 57 Percent of Cyber Attacks

-Many Businesses Remain Unprepared for AI as Phishing Attacks Rise 1,265% Since Launch of ChatGPT

-Business Email Compromise is Most Common Entry Point for Cyber Attack

-US Regulator Charges Firm and its CISO For Fraud and Cyber Security Failures

-Companies Scramble to Integrate Immediate Recovery into Ransomware Plans

-Your End-Users are Reusing Passwords, That’s a Big Problem

-Cyber Workforce Demand is Outpacing Supply

-What the Boardroom Is Missing: CISOs

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 27 October 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 27 October 2023:

-More Companies Adopt Board-Level Cyber Security Committees

-Ransomware Attacks Rise by More Than 95% Over 2022, to All Time High

-Security Still Not a Priority for a Third of SMBs Despite 73% Suffering Cyber Attack Last Year

-More Than 46 Million Potential Cyber Attacks Logged Every Day

-Fighting Cyber Attacks Requires Top-Down Approach

-Email Security Threats are More Dangerous This Year as Over 200 Million Malicious Emails Detected in Q3 2023

-98% of Security Leaders Worry About Risks of Generative AI as Fears Drive Spending

-48% of Organisations Predict Cyber Attack Recovery Could Take Weeks

-Cyber Security Awareness Doesn't Cut It; It's Time to Focus on Behaviour

-How Cyber Security Has Evolved in The Past 20 Years

-Rising Global Tensions Could Portend Destructive Hacks

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 29 September 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 29 September 2023:

-Ransomware Groups Are Shifting Their Focus Away From Larger Targets

-Cover-ups Still the Norm as Half of Cyber Attacks go Unreported

-Reported Cyber Security Breaches Increase Threefold for Financial Services Firms

-Attacks on SME’s Surged in The First Half of 2023

-The CISO Carousel and Its Effect on Enterprise Cyber Security

-Bermuda Struggles to Recover from Ransomware Attack

-Businesses Remain Unprepared Despite Cyber Threats Remaining a Top Concern

-Business Leaders More Anxious About Ransomware Than Recession as Tally from One Attack Alone Surpasses 2,000 Victim Organisations

-Hotel Hackers Redirect Guests to Fake Booking[.]com Site in Major Phishing Campaign

-Cyber Leaders Worry That AI Will Overwhelm Cyber Defences

-Boards Still Lack Cyber Security Expertise

-4 Legal Surprises You May Encounter After a Cyber Security Incident

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 22 September 2023

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

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 08 September 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 08 September 2023:

-More Than Half of UK Organisations Know They Aren’t Well Protected

-Generative AI Considered a Security Risk by 60% of Board Members: How Organisations Can Prepare

-Businesses Ignore Incident Response at Their Peril

-Blame Culture: An Organisation’s Ticking Time Bomb

-Spend to Save: CFO’s and Cyber Security Investment

-Cyber Security Tools Are New Targets for Attackers, including Nation-State Actors

-Attackers Access UK Military Data Through Third Party Supplier as Relentless Russian Cyber Attacks Raise Spectre of WW3

-Common Tactics Used by Threat Actors to Weaponise PDFs

-Years-old Microsoft Security Holes Still Hot Targets for Cyber Criminals

-Popular ‘As-a-Service’ Operations Have Earned Cyber Criminals over $64m

-71% of Organisations are Impacted by Cyber Security Skills Shortage

-Multiple Schools Hit by Cyber Attacks Before Term Begins

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 23rd June 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 23 June 2023:

-How the MOVEit Breach Shows Hackers' Interest in Corporate File Transfer Tools

-Attackers Discovering Exposed Cloud Assets Within Minutes

-Majority of Users Neglect Best Password Practices

-One in Three Workers Susceptible to Phishing

-Ransomware Misconceptions Abound, to the Benefit of Attackers

-Threat Actors Scale and Commoditise Uncommon Tools and Techniques

-Goodbyes are Difficult, IT Offboarding Processes Make Them Harder

-Security Budget Hikes are Missing the Mark, CISOs Say

-Understanding Cyber Resilience: Building a Holistic Approach to Cyber Security

-Emerging Ransomware Group 8Base Releasing Data on SMBs Globally

-Cyber Security Industry Still Fighting to Recruit and Retain Talent

-Financial Firms to Build Resilience in Face of Growing Cyber-Threats

-Fulfilling Expected SEC Requirements for Cyber Security Expertise at Board Level

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 16 June 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 16 June 2023:

-Hacker Gang Clop Deploys Extortion Tactics Against Global Companies

-Social Engineering Drives BEC Losses to $50B Globally

-Creating A Cyber-Conscious Culture—It Must Be Driven from the Top

-Artificial Intelligence is Coming to Windows: Are Your Security Policy Settings Ready?

-Cyber Crooks Targeting Employees, Organisations Fight Back with Training Programs

-Massive Phishing Campaign Uses 6,000 Sites to Impersonate 100 Brands

-A Recent Study Shows Over One in Ten Brits are Willing to Engage in ‘Illegal or Illicit’ Online Behaviour as the Cost of Living Crisis Worsens, Driving Insider Threat Concerns

-Microsoft Office 365 Phishing Reveals Signs of Much Larger BEC Campaign

-Europol Warns of Metaverse and AI Terror Threat

-What is AI, and is it Dangerous?

-Cyber Liability Insurance Vs. Data Breach Insurance: What's the Difference?

-Exploring the Dark Web: Hitmen for Hire and the Realities of Online Activities

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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

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