Category Archives: Active Attacks

Posts relating to attacks that are currently under way.

WannaCrypt or the NHS Worm

Posted on 2017-05-15 by mike

As many of you will be aware, the NHS suffered from a mass outbreak of a ransomware worm last Friday which has since spread to many other organisations around the world. For more general information please see The Register’s article … Continue reading →

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Keeping Your Account Safe

Posted on 2017-05-10 by mike

We are seeing an increase in the number of compromised accounts due to various forms of attack, and decided to highlight some core protections for your account. If your account is compromised, you may find yourself locked out of the … Continue reading →

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‘Phishing’ Emails With Your Home Address

Posted on 2017-04-04 by mike

This article is currently being drafted, and will be added to over time. In the meantime, Sophos have an article that goes into some detail about what is going on here. Some key points :- Don’t click on the encrypted … Continue reading →

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Analysis Of A Phishing Attack

Posted on 2016-11-29 by mike

The following is the analysis of a real phishing attack that we have seen, together with some indications of how a phishing attack can be detected. For the impatient, some of those indicators are listed below :- Are you expecting … Continue reading →

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Friday’s DDoS Attack And The Mirai IoT Worm

Posted on 2016-10-25 by mike

It may have reached your attention that there was a significant denial of service attack against a widely used DNS provider – the service provider for organisations such as Twitter, Github, and Amazon. The effect was to make certain services … Continue reading →

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TeamViewer: People Being Hacked

Posted on 2016-06-03 by mike

There are many reports that those using the TeamViewer application are being subjected to hacks with their bank accounts being emptied and similar problems. The details of how the attackers are breaking in are not available, but it seems likely that … Continue reading →

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Ransomware for OSX

Posted on 2016-03-07 by mike

It turns out that ransomware is no longer just for Windows; OSX has it too. If you use the OSX version of the Transmission Bittorrent client, you may want to check what version you are running because version 2.90 was … Continue reading →

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Firewall Vulnerability Alerts

Posted on 2016-03-01 by mike

We are just about to enable something that will email people when there is a critical firewall alert relating to an attempted exploit. During normal web browsing activity (although not when the web site is encrypted with https), the firewall keeps … Continue reading →

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Have You Received An Invoice Spam?

Posted on 2016-01-07 by mike

  The following is one of a number of spam messages that I received yesterday; all carefully filed away in the spam folder. To Whom It May Concern, Please find attached an invoice relating to Penalty Charge Notice Number IA54236946 … Continue reading →

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OSX Malware: Yes It Does Exist!

Posted on 2016-01-07 by mike

One of the messages that we are regularly trying to push is that malware on Apple devices can and does exist. We have even encountered a few infected Apple laptops! It is easy to overlook amongst the ever rising flood … Continue reading →

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