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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 6 October 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 06 October 2023:

-Many Cyber Attacks Begin by Breaking Human Trust

-BYOD Should Stand for Bring Your Own Disaster, According to Microsoft Ransomware Data

-SME Cyber Security Knowledge Gap Widens

-UK Security Budgets Under Strain as Cyber Incidents Soar

-Cyber Leaders’ Confidence in Their Organisation’s Defences Plummets, But Costs Mount

-FBI Warns of Dual Ransomware as Data Destruction Dwell Times Hit Low of 24 Hours

-Tech-Savvy Young Workers Might Be the Biggest Cyber Liability to Your Business

-Half of Cyber Security Professionals Report Increase in Cyber Attacks, with 60% of Attacks Going Unreported

-Global Cyber Survey Finds 50% Rise in Cyber Insurance Premiums

-Evolving Conversations: Cyber Security as a Business Risk

-Threats in Cloud Top the List of Executive Cyber Concerns

-Over Half of Phishing Emails Now Use Obfuscation Tactics to Avoid Detection

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 31 March 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 31 March 2023:

-Phishing Emails Up a Whopping 569% in 2022

-The End User Password Mistakes Putting Your Organisation at Risk

-Millions of Penetration Tests Show Companies’ Security Postures are Getting Worse

-71% of Employees Keep Work Passwords on Personal Devices

-Cyber Crime Frontlines in Russia-Ukraine War Move to Eastern and Northern Europe

-Security Flaws Cost Fifth of Executive’s Businesses

-Companies Struggle to Build and Run Effective Programs to Protect Data from Insider Threats

-Only 10% of Workers Remember All Their Cyber Security Training

-Silence Gets You Nowhere in a Data Breach

-Just 1% of Cloud Permissions are Actively Used

-Dangerous Misconceptions About Emerging Cyber Threats

-‘Grim’ Criminal Abuse of ChatGPT is Coming, Europol Warns

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 09 April 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 09 April 2021: Ransomware Attacks Grew By 485% In 2020; Cyber Insurance Firm Suffers Cyber Attack; Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers For Leverage; 'We Have Your Porn Collection' - The Rise Of Extortionware; Should Firms Be More Worried About Firmware Cyber Attacks; Armed Conflict Draws Closer As State-Backed Cyber Attacks Intensify; Coca-Cola Trade Secret Theft Underscores Importance Of Insider Threat Early Detection; Attackers Blowing Up Discord, Slack With Malware

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 26 February 2021

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 26 February 2021: Cyber Crime Could Cost The World $10.5 Trillion Annually By 2025; 119,000 Threats Per Minute Detected In 2020; 78% Of Top Security Leaders Say Their Organisations Are Unprepared For A Cyber Attack; Uk Faced Millions Of Cyber Attacks Last Year; New Tier Of APT Actors That Behave More Like Cyber Criminals; US Calls North Korean Hackers ‘World’s Leading Bank Robbers’; Sequoia Capital, One Of Silicon Valley's Most Notable VC Firms, Told Investors It Was Hacked; Poor Hardware Disposal Practices Posing A Risk To Data Security

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