Education
The loss of availability Ransomware causes is enough to make your day/week/s bad, the loss of data, bad month/quarter or longer.
Lockbit posted “Royal Mail need new negotiator.” Followed by “ALL AVAILABLE DATA PUBLISHED !”
What we actually found is that they published the chat history:
Read more “Lockbit 3.0 and Royal Mail – Chats Published”
Education
There are major questions that must be answered here!
Getting into Cyber
Quick, I’ll tell you a little secret… to get into CYBER you must first follow this guide:
Now if you are going to GET INTO CYBER you need to have a range of things:
Right ok, so let’s get some Hacking Skills!
Head over to KALI LINUX and download KALI
Read more “How to get into Cyber? It’s EASY!”
Leadership
Hacking
Ok this is going to be really short post, but expect more later! Did you ever want to run CME but you were stuck on a Windows machine? Well don’t worry you can! How do we do this?
First we download CME
Extract the zip file
Make sure you have python3 installed!
Read more “CrackMapExec (CME) on Windows”
Defence
You never know what you will find when you go hunting! So here’s a quick tale of an explore I did using Advanced Hunting!
I went hunting here in Advanced Hunting:
Read more “Threat hunting with some funny results!”
Threat Intel
Did you want to check out some of your detections? This isn’t everything of course but it’s a simple batch file to simulate a range of enumeration techniques used by actors like CONTI or LOCKBIT affiliates/operators:
Read more “Simulating Human Operated Discovery”
Uncategorized
A common way to deploy an encryption routine used in Ransomware scenarios is to create a scheduled task to launch a cyptor exe. This is commonly deployed via a Group Policy Object (GPO).
So I wanted to look at how with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) we could detect this both on domain controllers but also on CLIENT devices (MEMBER SERVERS/PCs)
Read more “Hunting for New Group Policies Where Scheduled Tasks are used”
Leadership
If you work in marketing you are probably walking around telling everyone that we all live in a ZERO trust era, that PASSWORDS are DEAD! Ransomware is DEAD and AI is the FUTURE and we should be doing that NOW!
Meanwhile back on CYBER PLANET EARTH, most organisation do NOT have or need AI, they use passwords and well they passwords they use are shockingly bad! Howe do I know this? I do password audits and security testing, but I also look at breach data! (and we have other people publish password audit reports etc.)
Read more “It’s 2023 and people’s passwords are still really really bad!”
Strategy
When forming a strategy you must realise for starts that people view the word strategy differently. However, the general view is STRATEGY AS A PLAN. Without a PLAN a strategy is a DREAM.
The plan must be supported by a rang of factors, it must also be managed. It should be something which helps you go from where you are (CURRENT STATE) to where you want to be (FUTURE STATE) and should have a roadmap (TRANSITION PLAN/ROADMP) of how you will get there.
When we talk about can I see your strategy, you will need to have it documented, a strategy without a document isn’t a strategy that can be shared and communicated. As to what “THE STRATEGY” document must be… well there is no such thing as a MUST, but there’s some component that are largely and widely recognised to be useful.
Read more “Strategy”