Regularly updating your firewall is essential for maintaining a strong security posture, protecting your network and data, and mitigating the risks associated with cyber threats. From the Trinidad and Tobago perspective, the exploitation of outdated and unpatched firewall systems is one of the most successful attack vectors executed against local organizations. This email serves as […]
The TTCSIRT has received reports from multiple Ministries, Divisions and Agencies of the occurrence of the following phishing campaign. Phishing emails are being received from the “virginmedia[.]com” domain and are impersonating the head of the respective MDA. The phishing email is targeting both personal and corporate email accounts. The emails try to coerce the victim […]
A large-scale outage has occurred due to a broken CrowdStrike cybersecurity update, rendering Windows computers unable to start and affecting much of the world’s infrastructure. The problem stems from an issue with CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensors, which encountered problems following an early Friday morning update. PLEASE BE ADVISED: Only accept information from the CrowdStrike support […]
At the Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TTCSIRT), our mission is clear: to stop breaches and ensure the security of Trinidad and Tobago’s digital infrastructure. Through detecting, preventing, and responding to cybersecurity incidents, we work tirelessly to protect our nation’s information systems. We understand that the battle against cyber threats cannot be […]
The Ministry of National Security, via the TT-CSIRT, recently hosted a comprehensive two-day cybersecurity tabletop exercise simulating a major cyber-attack on a critical national infrastructure (CNI) organization. The primary objective of the exercise was to promote the development of proper incident handling and communication procedures and to enhance cross-sector collaboration. The exercise involved entities from […]
It is with great pleasure and honor that Angus Smith, Manager of the Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT), was invited to be a panelist at the OAS Cybersecurity Symposium 2023, held in the Bahamas. This prestigious event focused on Incident Response in the Caribbean and featured Smith among the esteemed company of […]
Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Cisco products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities see the Cisco Security Advisories page. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco […]
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released an advisory on an ongoing, widespread Emotet malware campaign. Emotet is a Trojan—commonly spread via malicious email attachments—that attempts to proliferate within a network by brute forcing user credentials and writing to shared drives. ACSC provides indicators of compromise (IOCs) and recommendations to help organizations defend against […]
