CYBER INSIGHTS: The Latest SME Cybersecurity News & Intel for Wednesday, 6 March 2024

Gibraltar: Wednesday, 06 March 2024 at 07:00 CET

CYBER INSIGHTS: The Latest SME Cybersecurity News & Intelligence …
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Welcome to Today’s edition of CYBERInsights – My roundup of the latest European SME Cybersecurity News, Actionable Intelligence & Expert Risk Analysis including: 1) SCAM WARNING: Advance Fee Fraud 2) RANSOMWARE: WTF with Lockbit? 3) VPN: Assume Ivanti is Rogue.

1) SCAM WARNING: UK FINANCE – The Small Business “Guaranteed” Loan Scam. Regular Readers and Members will have been appraised by my recent Investigation into the proliferation of the old Advance Fee Fraud, now news has reached me that UK Finance the UK Banking trade-body has issued an Advisory warning potential victims that they, UK Finance, does not offer any financial products and anyone claiming to provide such products on our behalf is fraudulent. If you have been a victim of this scam contact your Bank Immediately & Report it to ActionFraud. Learn More /…

2) RANSOMWARE: Just who is behind Lockbit and what is going on? I first reported on this latest bout of Lockbit saga back in May last year when I covered the indictment of a Russian national Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev who was targeted by the DoJ for deploying various Ransomware variants including Lockbit – Hold that thought as we move forward to 21 June last year and the US DoJ again laid charges against Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov a Chechen (Russian) national for his involvement in deploying LockBit attacks. Learn More /…

3) VPN: IVANTI VPN – Five Eyes issue Ivanti VPN Advisory. In a joint advisory the Five Eyes Intelligence alliance including the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada and the US have issued a stark warning that ongoing exploitation of several Ivanti VPN flaws allowing attackers to bypass authentication and execute commands with command privileges. The advisory has warned users to assume that their IVANTI VPN has been breached and their credentials have almost certainly been compromised. Learn More /…

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INVESTIGATIONS 2024:

1. THE SMALL BUSINESS LOAN SCAM This model of the Small Business Loan Scam started during the Covid Pandemic and true to form the Scammers were offering “Guaranteed” Small Business Loans. Well, I have to report that the Business Loan Scam is rearing its ugly head. Register Free to read the full Report

2. PHISHING: The Sextortion scam as it is termed, has raised its ugly head again with a refined Scam for 2024. I first wrote about this nearly six years ago after I received a flurry of emails with the standard copy & paste text. Most Small Businesses/ SMEs ignore these threats as not being relevant to business but they would be wrong! Register Free to read the full Report

CYBERSECURITY EVENTS – EUROPE | LIVE & VIRTUAL

29/02/2024 – THE FRAUD CONFERENCE | London – Learn More /…
06/03/2024 – CLOUD&CYBER SEC EXPO | London – Learn More /…
17/03/2024 – RETHINK! IT SECURITY | Berlin – Learn More /…
20/05/2024 – CYBERWISECON EUROPE | Online – Learn More /…
31/05/2024 – SANS RANSOMWARE SUMMIT | Online – Learn More /…