The Threat That Keeps Threatening – Everywhere And To Everyone

Here are a few of the big surprises:

• One company had been breached for some considerable time whilst the threat actors figured out how to maximise the opportunity presented to them.
• Windows 7 had been used as a weak point of entry.
• Email spear phishing was also used to gain entry.
• In both instances, once entry was gained, the hackers spent considerable time using the opportunity to move laterally through the network.
• In one instance, the hackers had spent over 187 days doing reconnaissance on the network.
• One of the sites had its backup routine altered to back up only useless data. They still were getting emails to say that their backups were completed – but the contents of the backup were useless.
• All the cyber security attacks happened over a weekend – when all the businesses were closed.
• Weak passwords also made hacking easier for threat actors. Not only was the password in question weak, but it had not been changed in 10 years.
• One business had a clone of its website spin up and start to take fraudulent eCommerce orders.
• One company had its finance system running on a server on-site. They came very, very close to losing all of their financial records.

And I was only away for a week or so…

These are not made-up examples.

These are real companies, in real-time, under a very real threat.

Some day you will join that list – it’s not a matter of ‘if’ but a matter of ‘when.’

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