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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 11 June 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 11 June 2021: World’s Biggest Meat Producer JBS Pays $11m Ransom; New Type Of Ransomware Could Be 10 Times As Dangerous; Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed At Business Explode; UK Schools Forced To Shut Following Ransomware; COVID-19 Has Transformed Work, But Cyber Security Is Not Keeping Pace; Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack Stemmed From Old VPN Password; Evil Corp Rebrands Ransomware To Escape Sanctions; Billions Of Passwords Leaked Online From Past Data Breaches

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 14 May 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 14 May 2021: Two Thirds Of CISOs Expect Damaging Cyber Attack In Next 12 Months; Ransomware - Don't Pay, It Just Shows Cyber Criminals That Attacks Work; Most Significant Cyber Attacks 2006-2020; The Shape Of Fraud And Cyber Crime, 10 Things We Learned From 2020; US Pipeline Ransomware Serves As Warning To Persistent Corporate Inertia Over Security; Ransomware Attackers Now Using Triple Extortion Tactics; AXA Pledges To Stop Reimbursing French Ransomware Victims; Cyber Experts Warn Over Online Wine Scams

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 16 April 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 16 April 2021: 61% Of Employees Fail Basic Cyber Security Quiz; More Than 1,900 Hacking Groups Active Today; Ransomware Crisis Worsens; Enterprise Security Attackers Are One Password Away From Your Worst Day; Microsoft’s April Update Patches 114 Bugs; Nation-State Attacks Targeting Businesses Rise; Criminals Installing Cryptojacking Malware On Unpatched Exchange Servers; Network Vulns Affect Over 100 Million Devices; Brits Still Confused By Multi-Factor Authentication

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 05 March 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 05 March 2021: New Strain Of Ransomware Implements Self-Spreading Capabilities; One In Four People Use Work Passwords For Consumer Websites; Massive Rise In Threats Across Expanding Attack Surfaces; Half of Orgs Concerned Remote Working Puts Them at Greater Risk of Cyber Attacks; Microsoft Patches Four Zero-Day Exchange Server Bugs; A Booming Trade In Bugs Is Undermining Cyber Security; Weaponized Spectre Exploit Discovered; Solarwinds Security Fiasco May Have Started With Simple Password Blunders

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Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 11 September 2020: Ransomware 41% of H1 2020 cyber insurance claims, MS Critical RCE Bugs, 60% of emails May/June fraudulent, Insider Data Breaches, Linux Targeting More

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 11 September 2020: Ransomware 41% of all H1 2020 cyber insurance claims, MS Patch Tuesday Critical RCE Bugs, 60 percent of emails May/ June were fraudulent, Insider-Enabled Data Breaches, Linux-Based Devices Targeted More, Chilean bank shut down following ransomware, meddling in US politics by Russia, China & Iran, TikTok battles to remove video of livestreamed suicide

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Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 14 August 2020: Travelex goes bust following ransomware, Microsoft fix 120 vulns inc two zero-days, more ransomware victims paying up, Cloud misconfigurations create risks

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 14 August 2020: Travelex Forced into Administration After Ransomware Attack, Microsoft fixes 120 vulnerabilities inc two zero-days, More ransomware victims are paying up, Misconfiguration #1 Cloud Security Threat, Beware What You Ask Amazon Alexa, Ex-Uber engineer sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing driverless car secrets from Google, Google and Amazon are now the most imitated brands for phishing

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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 for 13 March 2020 – more Coronavirus based phishing, adapting ways of working, emergency Microsoft patch, businesses breached due to employee error, IoT traffic unencrypted

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing for 13 March 2020 – more Coronavirus based phishing, adapting ways of working, emergency Microsoft patch, businesses breached due to employee error, IoT traffic unencrypted

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Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing for 28 February 2020 –authenticator codes nabbed on Android, Cisco and Chrome critical vulns, FCA data breach, online backups not good enough

Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing for 28 February 2020 – authenticator codes nabbed on Android, Cisco and Chrome critical vulns, FCA data breach, online backups not good enough

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