Shaw Computer Services

05/28/2026

Yesterday the FBI released an advisory on the Silent Ransom Group (SRG), aka Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, who use social engineering techniques like phone calls and phishing emails to access victim computers. SRG actors have been steadily targeting law firms since 2023, and they focus on accessing victim systems, exfiltrating data, and extorting their victims by threatening to release or sell the stolen data.

Since SRG actors use legitimate remote access tools, there are few artifacts of their attacks. Review the advisory to learn how SRG actors operate to exfiltrate data and potential signs of SRG activity: https://www.ic3.gov/CSA/2026/260526.pdf.

05/13/2026

This is both good and bad news. While the people that were affected by the breach may not have their stuff leaked on the internet (if you trust the criminals) it will also encourage other hackers now to do the same. It just shows that crime does pay.

The deal was announced just hours before the hackers’ supposed May 12 deadline.

04/24/2026

04/24/2026

Today, the Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is announcing a reward offer under the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program (TOCRP) of up to $4 million for information leading to the arrest of Daren Li for facilitating the laundering of proce...

04/24/2026

More information on the scam centers

The United States is taking coordinated action to protect Americans from large-scale online fraud and to expose the human rights abuses that enable it. In 2024, Americans lost at least $10 billion to scam operations in Southeast Asia, according to a U.S. government estimate. In response, the U.S. De...

04/24/2026

They are going after scam networks in various countries. I hope it starts working when it comes to whittling away at the number of scam calls.

WASHINGTON—Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kok An—a Cambodian senator who controls scam compounds throughout the country—as well as 28 individuals and entities in his network. Southeast Asian scam operators within this network have s...

04/20/2026

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/iphone-users-are-being-targeted-with-a-new-phishing-scam-041526.html

Scammers are sending fake alerts to iPhone users claiming their iCloud storage is full to trick them into clicking malicious links The messages oft

09/23/2024

If you are still using Kaspersky Antivirus, you need to contact us right away.

Starting Thursday, Kaspersky deleted its anti-malware software from computers across the United States and replaced it with UltraAV's antivirus solution without warning.

07/19/2024

The outage today for computers is caused by companies using an MDR software called Crowd Strike. Ironically this software is there for security but for some reason this update was released with this major bug in it taking down companies all around the world. We do not use Crowd Strike and none of my clients went down. If any of you have any questions, you are free to ask them. MDR stands for Managed Detection and Response.