Tag: cyber attack
News and information from the Advent IM team.
British spooks expose Russian-based cyber hacking gang masquerading as Iranian crooks after they targeted a UK academic organisation
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
British spooks have exposed a Russian-based cyber hacking gang masquerading as Iranian crooks after they targeted an academic organisation in the UK. Read via Mail Online
Read MoreMike Gillespie in Computer Weekly – Security Think Tank: Aim for integrated resilience, continuity and recovery
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
How should businesses plan to survive a potential cyber attack extinction event? Up to recent time, perhaps the past couple of years, when I talked about the possibility of an extinction event from a cyber attack, the perspectives of the vast majority of people were still entirely focused on this being an exfiltration, manipulation or […]
Read MoreHundreds of compromised WordPress and Joomla websites are serving up malware to visitors
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Researchers see a spike in compromised domains attempting to deliver malicious payloads including Shade ransomware and phishing links. Read full story.
Read MoreThe newest iteration of the UK Government Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework will include Advent IM
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog Advent IM News
**Press Release** Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 03.10.18 The UK’s leading independent, holistic security consultancy announced on Monday 1st October 2018 that they will be offering their services from the new iteration Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework 3. This framework is for public bodies and agencies to […]
Read MoreMike is in the first edition of The Professional Security Officer Magazine
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
The first edition of The Professional Security Officer Magazine has been published, this magazine is to help improve the working life for Front Line Security Professionals and create a loud and unified voice for them. Mike Gillespie was delighted to have contributed to this magazine, to read his article ‘Threat Convergence – Gone, but […]
Read MoreMike Gillespie – The Professional Security Magazine: Threat Convergence – Gone, but not forgotten
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
Mike Gillespie is discussing threat convergence in the first edition of The Professional Security Officer magazine, read full story.
Read MoreMike Gillespie – Security Think Tank: Reduce attacker dwell time with defence in depth
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
Mike Gillespie in Computer Weekly – Why is reducing cyber attacker dwell time important and how should this be tackled? Read full story.
Read MoreFMs must step up fight against cyber hacking, conference told
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
FM World – Mike Gillespie speaking to Herpreet Kaur Grewal about the FMs fight against cyber security. Read full story.
Read More1. Fileless attacks – a growing menace. A series of opinions from Advent IM Consultants
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
From Del Brazil Senior Security Consultant – Advent IM Fileless Malware Simply put Fileless malware is a very well-engineered piece of malware that is very difficult to detect as part of any post incident analysis. It is designed to operate and survive in the memory of systems and as such once a system is re-booted […]
Read More2017 Security Predictions from the Advent IM Team
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
At this time of year we like to make security predictions for the year to come. Ho Ho Oh dear… Mike Gillespie – Director I predict – further growth and sophistication in phishing attacks, and as a result of these successful attacks and continuing low quality user awareness and education, an increase in the […]
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