I can’t say this enough. Supply chains are the weak spot and hackers know it and abuse it. Scattered Spider, the group responsible for attacks on US insurance firms Aflac, Philadelphia and Erie and British retailers like Marks & Spencer and others, uses supply chain attacks as their favorite method. After they use social engineering […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cost of Recent UK Retail Cyberattacks is $350 to $600 Million Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-$591 million). Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Harrods were all targets. That is a lot of money for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The help desk was operated by a third party. The hackers conned the help desk, it is reported, to reset all of the two factor methods that were set up to protect a super-admin account. They likely did this after they phished an employee for his/her userid and password. They used deceptive phone calls to […]
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