Alex

Incident response consultant and a die-hard Derby County fan!

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

@dcfcofficial Morris
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[Mike.Maddison_cyber @MikeMaddison]

Earlier today, NCC Group’s Chief Technology Officer, Siân John, gave evidence to the UK House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee about the cyber resilience of critical national infrastructure and tackling the cyber skills shortage. https://t.co/0ogy6AjpQB

[NCC Group Research & Technology @NCCGroupInfosec]

In this post we delve into a recent incident response engagement handled by NCC Group's CIRT, which involved the Ransomware-as-a-Service known as NoEscape.

https://t.co/yl09AU5Dxp

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

The team have been handling a large number of ransomware cases recently and we want to share what we've observed to help the industry identify and prevent such attacks from succeeding. We kick off our ransomware series with BlackCat:

https://t.co/POH7skV6TI

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

What a great weekend at #steelcon, will definitely be back next year @Steel_Con

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

Last minute prep @Steel_Con

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

@nez_ze_nerd @ydoow

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

@dcfcofficial Sign some players please!

[Derby County @dcfcofficial]

We know the assignment. Let's do this.

𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗦 🖤🤍

#DCFC #dcfcfans

[NCC Group plc @NCCGroupplc]

January Threat Pulse now available. 165 ransomware attacks in January 2023 - 38% decrease from December 2022, but highest volume of attacks recorded in January over last three years. Full story: https://t.co/3hEWLwwE78

[Stephan Berger @malmoeb]

Yep, been there.

"Another tactic seen throughout multiple investigations is the adversary following a generic DESKTOP-<7 alphanumeric characters> naming pattern when using their own systems to connect to victim organization VPNs."

https://t.co/AjKdXXkqUV

[Mike.Maddison_cyber @MikeMaddison]

The scale and threat of Ransomware: UK Parliament Committee invites NCC Group’s Ollie Whitehouse to give evidence https://t.co/VC9YMOFXoz

[NCC Group Research & Technology @NCCGroupInfosec]

Blog: A glimpse into the shadowy realm of a Chinese APT: detailed analysis of a ShadowPad intrusion by William Backhouse ( @Will0x04 ), Michael Mullen ( @DropTheBase64 ) and Nikolaos Pantazopoulos https://t.co/cFJzb7jgBc

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

RIP The Queen!

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

[Chris Mayhew @ctmayhew]

Pushed v1.2 of the @XWaysSoftware YARA X-Tension. Now uses YARA v4.2.3 and has support for running multiple YARA rules. With help from @fir3xfly. Enjoy!

[NCC Group Research & Technology @NCCGroupInfosec]

Blog: Back in Black: Unlocking a LockBit 3.0 Ransomware Attack - explores some of the TTPs employed by a threat actor who were observed deploying LockBit 3.0 ransomware during an incident response engagement - by @rdi_x64 - https://t.co/QGETHfspbG

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

@G1nGe98 Good to know I wasn't the only one!

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

It's so good to be back, didn't think I'd be here! COYRS #dcfc

[NCC Group Research & Technology @NCCGroupInfosec]

Blog: Top of the Pops - Three common ransomware entry techniques by @MMatthews32

[Alex @ThisIsFineChief]

@carolyn005x It just shows this particular group of players haven't played together nor played much football pre-season. That Robertson has looked bright though.