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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 20 October 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 20 October 2023:

-Cyber Insecurity: Many Businesses Scared They May be Hit by a Cyber Attack at Any Moment

-Cyber Security Investments Show Mature Business Mindset

-SMBs Struggle to Keep Pace as Cyber Threats Reach All Time High

-Phishing Attacks Reach Record Highs as Banks, Financial Services Remain Top Targets with HR Remaining the Most Effective Phishing Lure

-Cyber Attacks are a Matter of When not if, The Best Time to Deal With Them is Before They Happen

-Lloyd's Of London Warns Of Worst-Case-Scenario Cyber Attack

-20,000 Britons Approached By Chinese Agents On LinkedIn, Says MI5 Head

-Ransomware - All it Takes is One Employee Mistake, Criminals are Aiming at Third-Party Vendors

-39% of Individuals Use the Same Password for Multiple Accounts

-Why Fourth-Party Risk Management Is a Must-Have

-AI Adoption Surges But Security Awareness Lags Behind

-UK watchdog fines Equifax £11 million for role in cyber breach

-Why Boards Must Understand and Govern Cyber Security Risk

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 13 August 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 13 August 2021:

-SMBs Increasingly Vulnerable To Ransomware, Despite The Perception They Are Too Small To Target

-440% Increase In Phishing

-Users Can Be Just As Dangerous As Hackers

-With Crime-As-A-Service, Anyone Can Be An Attacker

-Move To Cloud Creating Security Blindspots

-Connected Devices Increasingly At Risk Of Ransomware Attacks

-Ransomware Payments Explode Amid ‘Quadruple Extortion’

-Accenture Hit With $50M Ransomware

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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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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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