NCSC (UK)

New advisory highlights Russian state cyber actors’ global exploitation of poorly configured routers

Five Eyes cyber security agencies urge organisations to act on rapidly transforming cyber risk.

Organisations using Fortinet services are being urged to take action following a campaign affecting firewalls and VPN gateways.

Dr Richard Horne highlighted the scale of cyber threats against the UK’s critical infrastructure at RUSI’s Annual Security Lecture.

Explaining the widespread shift in tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) towards networks of compromised infrastructure, and how to defend against it

Passkeys are the more secure and user-friendly login method and should be the default authentication option for consumers.

New advisory highlights how to defend against attacker tactics believed to be used by China-linked actors to hide malicious cyber activity.

Organisations should map and baseline their edge device traffic, especially VPN and remote access connections, and adopt dynamic threat feed filtering that includes known covert network indicators.

SilentGlass, a plug-and-play device, actively blocks any unexpected or malicious HDMI and Display Port connections.

As the technology landscape develops, the definition of cyber security is expanding with it.

New advisory warns cyber threat group APT28 have exploited vulnerable edge devices to support malicious operations.

Russian cyber actor APT28 exploit vulnerable routers to hijack DNS, enabling adversary‑in‑the‑middle attacks and theft of passwords and authentication tokens.

The NCSC has issued actions for individuals at risk of targeted attacks against messaging apps.

The NCSC is encouraging UK organisations to mitigate an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager.

UK organisations encouraged to take immediate action to mitigate two recently disclosed vulnerabilities affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway.

Dr Richard Horne delivered a keynote about cyber risks and opportunities at the RSAC Conference in San Francisco

CYBERUK will be delivered by the NCSC and sponsors across four distinct tracks of activity: Resilience, Technology, Threat, and Ecosystem.

In response to the evolving events in the Middle East, the NCSC is advising that UK organisations review their cyber security posture.

Agencies strongly encourage immediate investigation of potential compromise of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN.

The NCSC encourages local government and critical infrastructure operators to harden their ‘denial of service’ (DoS) defences