DAILY CYBER INSIGHTS: The Latest SME Cybersecurity News & Analysis for Tuesday, 16 January 2024

Tuesday, 16 January 2024

DAILY CYBER INSIGHTS: The Latest SME Cybersecurity  News & Analysis for Tuesday, 16 January 2024: 
CYBERInsights Written & Curated By Iain Fraser – SME Cybersecurity Journalist
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DAILY CYBER INSIGHTS: Good Morning from Gibraltar – CYBERInsights for Tuesday, 16 January 2024 including NCSC Advice for Small Businesses, Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine & ICO fines recipe box outfit HelloFresh for send millions of Spam Emails & SMS texts. #NCSC #SMEs #SME #Cybersecurity #Europol #Crypto #Cryptojacking #ICO #HelloFresh #SpammersandScammers 

NCSC: How SMEs Can reduce the Risk of Cyber Attacks – The UK Cyber Agency NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) has issued new advice aimed at SMEs essentially reminding Small Business owners that they need to deploy counter-measures to Reduce the Risk of Cyber Attack. Small Businesses have to rely on a number of online services in their day to day operations, even if they are not aware of the protocols used on their behalf. Its rudimentary stuff but worth a review before 2024 gets fully underway. Learn More /…

EUROPOL: Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8 million mining scheme – The National Police of Ukraine (Національна поліція України), with the support of Europol, has arrested an individual believed to be the mastermind behind a sophisticated cryptojacking scheme. The arrest comes after months of intensive collaboration between Ukrainian authorities, Europol and a cloud provider, who worked tirelessly to identify and locate the individual behind the widespread Cryptojacking operation. Learn More /…

SPAMMERS & SCAMMERS: ICO – Information Commissioners Office has fined Food delivery company HelloFresh over €160,000 for sending millions of spam emails and texts. The ICO reacted to 14 complaints made direct to the regulator with a further 8,729 were made to the 7726 Spam message reporting service. Subsequent enquiries led to the ICO “finding” an astonishing 79 million emails and 1 million texts over a seven month Spam campaign. HelloFresh says it has made changes to its Email & SMS Policy. Learn More /…