Category: General

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General Industry News

Newly published data collated by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau shows a huge spike in fraud and cybercrime so far in 2021. The UK has seen a three-fold increase in financial losses incurred from fraud and cybercrimes in the first six months of 2021. In total, £1.3bn has been lost to these kinds of crimes, a stark […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

The pop-up banners asking users permission to access certain data have become a familiar part of landing on a new website – but they could become far fewer. Read via Sky News. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

The recent news of the Modipwn vulnerability, highlights again how real this problem is; it has not gone away. While this Modicon attack is specific to a certain technology, what it shows is that effectively any of these legacy PLCs (programmable logic controllers) and associated technologies, could cause the take over of a smart building. […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog General

This week on Weekend Wisdom, it has been a busy week in news, with the major story of the week being the T-Mobile data breach, which resulted in the leak of 100 million customer records. Europol has shut down a cyber fraud ring that defrauded companies in 20 countries, and the Information Commissioner’s Office has […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

Customers should think carefully about handing over personal data when ordering food and drink via their mobile phones, the UK’s body overseeing data privacy suggests. Venues should only ask for data that is “relevant and necessary”, the ICO said. “I think it’s too easy to upload an app and straight away put your name, email […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

XLS.HTML phishing campaign used a variety of novel tactics to avoid detection Microsoft has released new details on a phishing campaign which employed evolving tactics including the use of Morse code to evade detection. Read via TechRadar

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

We are thrilled to be able to provide you with a fresh new piece of Advent content. Starting this week, we’ll be bringing you a weekly roundup of what we’ve been up to, from events to blogs to podcasts, everything we do at Advent IM during the week will be captured here for you to […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

Malicious container images were hidden in plain sight on Docker Hub Cybercriminals have begun using malicious container images as a means to install cryptominers on enterprise networks though they can also be used as part of a supply chain attack targeting cloud native environments. Read via TechRadar

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

Cybercriminals have given away the details to promote their new cyber-crime venture in what they say is an act of “unprecedented generosity”. Hackers have released private details of around one million people in a major credit card data breach. Read via Digit

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

Cyber crime has cost organisations more than £5 million in the past 13 months, with employees being tricked into downloading malware that looks like it comes from IT support, among other phishing scams. Read via SKY News.