Edinburgh Based Card Machine Scams
Warning to local Edinburgh businesses following recent card machine scams. Police Scotland are appealing for information and urging businesses to be vigilant following incidents in…
Category: Threat Intelligence Alerts
Latest threats and guidance from the cyber and fraud world
Business Email Compromise: Preventative and Remedial Measures
At the Cyber and Fraud Centre, we provide an Incident Response Helpline to support organisations that have fallen victim to cyber attacks or financial fraud. One…
Log4Shell Vulnerability (with updates)
On Friday the 10th of December 2021, a zero-day was identified in the Apache Log4j 2 library, a common logging utility featured in applications and services built…
COVID-19 vaccine text scams rife and targeting youngsters
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) issued a warning to the public about text scams that target youngsters. CTSI Lead Officer Katherine Hart informed CTSI…
Increase in UK’s Terrorist Threat Level to Severe
Following the Home Secretary’s announcement, Police Scotland’s Assistant Chief Constable, Mark Williams said: “This afternoon the Home Secretary announced an increase in the UK’s Terrorist…
Threat Intel: Pegasus Project NSO Spyware
Ethical hacker Suzie examines what we know so far on the NSO’s Pegasus spyware.
Threat Intel: PrintNightmare
SBRC ethical hacker Suzie explains the Microsoft Print Spooler vulnerability.
Kaseya VSA Supply Chain Cyber Attack
An active supply-chain attack is currently underway on Kaseya’s VSA, a product that is used to manage company networks. The supply-chain attack which is being used…
PayPoint scam alert
SBRC has been made aware of a possible scam related to mobile phone top ups.