

Tony Cole
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Attivo Networks
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July 22, 2020
Calling out Russia publicly has had little effect on them outside of sanctions and even the latter doesn’t seem to curtail this activity.
It’s been clear for a number of years that the Russians have every intention to continue their efforts to undermine the fabric of Western society. They do this by focusing on a non-stop flow of disinformation campaigns in their targeted countries to sow disinformation to undermine free society foundations and especially hamper free and fair elections.
Countries should have a structure in place to strike back in a fair and meaningful manner through offensive cyber actions. This structure.....Read More

July 17, 2020
it’s impossible to state specifically at this point in time how the systems were taken over since we don’t have the internal details from Twitter.
The Twitter attack is an interesting one and we were lucky the actors involved were interested in monetizing the compromise versus creating potential significant unrest through the high profile accounts that were impacted. On the technical side, it’s impossible to state specifically at this point in time how the systems were taken over since we don’t have the internal details from Twitter. However, due to the number of accounts compromised it’s quite possible that an internal.....Read More

June 04, 2020
Practical measures include ensuring all data is backed up with copies kept offline.
This is yet another high-profile example of a contractor being inadvertently used by threat actors to carry out a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks are particularly prevalent at this time because threat actors know organisations may have left themselves vulnerable in the rush to avoid business disruption during the pandemic.
To deal effectively with ransomware organisations need to move from reactive, incident response to an anticipatory, threat preparedness mindset. Practical measures.....Read More
