Tag: malware
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Hundreds 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 MoreIt’s day 17 of the #AdventAdventCalendar – have you received any Christmas e-card greetings yet?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Security Think Tank: Human, procedural and technical response to fileless malware
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
Mike Gillespie in Computer Weekly – What should organisations do at the very least to ensure business computers are protected from fileless malware? 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 More#Security predictions for 2018 from the Advent IM Team
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Its that time of year. We look back over our shoulder and use the previous 12 months to try and work out what we can expect in the coming 12 months. Sometimes we get it horribly right, such as our prediction of the meteoric rise in ransomware and also that it would start to impact […]
Read MoreMike talks to CSL’s Simon Banks about cyber crime and security for installers
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
This month Simon Banks talks to Mike Gillespie, Founder of Advent IM Ltd the UK’s leading independent information security and physical security consultancy. Mike is also Vice President of ‘The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science’. Read it here.
Read MoreThe twelve days of Christmas…with extra risk
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Julia’s #Rules to Ransomware Safety
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
From Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron For those of you who read my irregular blogs, you’ll know I have a passion for the TV series NCIS. When I say passion more of an obsession really. So imagine the irony when they air an episode in the UK about Ransomware, in the wake of the world’s […]
Read MoreCSP: 2017 – Ransomware workshop
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
York Racecourse is the venue for CSP: 2017 and this year it is 23-24 May. Ellie Hurst will be hosting a workshop to discuss the legalities and implications of paying ransoms through cyberspace, on day 1. Details of the event are here.
Read MoreReady for Doxware?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A guest post from Del Brazil – Advent IM Security Consultant Doxware is a more vicious version of Ransomware in that not only does the hacker holds the user to ransom having encrypted their files but also threatens to release sensitive information, photos and/or conversations into the public domain until such time a ransom is […]
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