1. Information Security – Sep 18
Current Threats & Landscape
Superdrug Ransom demand - believed to be from cyber criminals, claiming they had obtained customer information. Superdrug stated that they could not find any evidence of a data breach but now believe that the cyber criminals accessed their customer accounts using credentials from other websites.
Marap - a new piece of malware using phishing s to infect users have featured malicious attachments like Word documents or PDF files. To date, Marap has mostly targeted financial institutions.
Hermes 2.1 ransomware - , an evolution of ransomware used during the 2017 attempted theft of $60 million from a Taiwan-based bank. The victim receives an “Invoice Due” – an invoice is attached as a Word document, urges the victim to complete the transaction quickly. The document is protected by a password, contained within the , giving the campaign added credibility.