Insights

25/10/2024

The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack.

29/10/2024

Microsoft is finally adding threaded conversations to its Microsoft Teams communications app. Threaded conversations in Teams won’t arrive until mid-2025, but ahead of that, Microsoft is also combining its separate chats and channels UI inside Teams into a single view.

9/10/2024

Search any of the Gmail support forums online, from social media platforms such as the Gmail subreddit or the official Gmail community help from Google itself, and one question comes up time and time again: my Gmail account has been hacked, how can I recover it?

21/9/2024

Professional social networking site LinkedIn allegedly used data from its users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models, without alerting users it was doing so. According to reports this week, LinkedIn hadn't refreshed its privacy policy to reflect the fact that it was harvesting user data for AI training purposes.

9/10/2024

Ethical hacker Christopher Hawkins shares the common mistakes he sees people making when accessing the internet in public.

20/9/2024

Microsoft is launching a Windows app for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, web browsers, Android devices, and even Windows PCs. The Windows app is essentially a hub for streaming a copy of Windows from a variety of sources, including Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop, and more.

6/8/2024

Hackers delivered malware to Windows and Mac users by compromising their Internet service provider and then tampering with software updates delivered over unsecure connections, researchers said.

6/8/2024

With macOS Sequoia this fall, using apps that need access to screen recording permissions will become a little bit more tedious. Apple is rolling out a change that will require you to give explicit permission on a weekly basis to these types of apps, and every time you reboot your Mac.

5/8/2024

The Hunters International ransomware group is targeting IT workers with a new C# remote access trojan (RAT) called SharpRhino to breach corporate networks. The malware helps Hunters International achieve initial infection, elevate their privileges on compromised systems, execute PowerShell commands, and eventually deploy the ransomware payload.