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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 14 July 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 14 July 2023:

-Cyber Attacks Are a War We'll Never Win, but We Can Defend Ourselves

-Helping Boards Understand Cyber Risks

-Enterprise Risk Management Should Inform Cyber Risk Strategies

-Law Firms at High Risk of Attack as Ransomware Groups Begin to Focus Attention

-20% of Malware Attacks Bypass Antivirus Protection

-Ransomware Payments and Extortion Spiked Compared to 2022

-AI, Trust, and Data Security are Key Issues for Finance Firms and Their Customers

-Caution: Microsoft Warns of Office Zero-Day Attacks with No Patch Available

-Scam Page Volumes Surge 304% Annually

-Financial Industry Faces Soaring Ransomware Threat

-The Need for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management to Combat Threats

-Government Agencies Breached in Microsoft 365 Email Attacks

-Concerns Raised as Report Questions UK’s “Completely Inadequate” Defence to Threats from China

-Hackers Backed by North Korea have Stolen Billions of Dollars Over the Last Five Years

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 07 July 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 07 July 2023:

-Cyber Attacks Against Mobile Devices Growing Fast

-One Third of Security Breaches Go Unnoticed by Security Professionals

-Cyber Security Experts Have Become Targets for Board Seats

-Phishing Attack Prevention as Email Attacks Surge Over 450%

-Outsmarting Business Email Compromise Scammers

-Small Organisations Face Security Threats on a Limited Budget

-Cloud Security: Sometimes the Risks May Outweigh the Rewards

-Cl0p's MOVEit Campaign Represents a New Era in Cyber Attacks

-75% of Consumers Prepared to Ditch Brands Hit by Ransomware

-Scammers Using AI Voice Technology to Commit Crimes

-What are the Causes of Data Loss and What it the Impact on Your Organisation?

-Ransomware Affiliates, Triple Extortion, and the Dark Web Ecosystem

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 02 June 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 02 June 2023:

-How to Keep Cyber Attacks from Tanking Your Balance Sheet

-Company Size Doesn’t Matter When It Comes to Cyber Attacks

-‘Exceptional’ Cyber Attacks Now Normal, says BT Security Chief

-How State-Sponsored/Advanced Persistent Threat Groups (APTs) Target SMBs

-Phishing Campaigns Thrive as Evasive Tactics Outsmart Conventional Detection

-Don't be Polite When you Get a Text from a Wrong Number

-Capita Cyber Attack: 90 Downstream Organisations Reported Data Breaches

-Travel-Themed Phishing, BEC Campaigns Get Smarter as Summer Season Arrives

-Organisations Spend 100 Hours Battling Post-Delivery Email Threats

-Ransomware Gangs Adopting Business-like Practices to Boost Profits

-The Sobering Truth About Ransomware—For The 80% Who Paid Up

-The Great CISO Resignation: Why Security Leaders are Quitting in Droves

-When is it Time for a Cyber Hygiene Audit?

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 03 June 2022

-Turbulent Cyber Insurance Market Sees Rising Prices and Sinking Coverage

-Ransomware Attacks Still The #1 Threat to Businesses and Organisations

-Third of UK Firms Have Experienced a Security Breach Since 2020

-There Is No Good Digital Transformation Without Cyber Security

-Ransomware Gang Now Hacks Corporate Websites to Show Ransom Notes

-Attackers Are Leveraging Follina, a Critical Microsoft Windows Vulnerability Affecting Nearly All Versions of Windows and Windows Server. What Can You Do?

-Ransomware Attacks Need Less Than Four Days to Encrypt Systems

-57% Of All Digital Crimes In 2021 Were Scams

-Intelligence Is Key to Strategic Business Decisions

-How Cyber Criminals Are Targeting Executives at Home and Their Families

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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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