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Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education and government sectors

Security Affairs

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. ” reads the analysis published by Carbon Black Managed Detection & Response team.

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8Base ransomware operators use a new variant of the Phobos ransomware

Security Affairs

The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. Security experts attributed 67 attacks to the group in May 2023, most of the victims are in the U.S. and Brazil.

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TinyNuke banking malware targets French organizations

Security Affairs

The TinyNuke malware is back and now was used in attacks aimed at French users working in manufacturing, technology, construction, and business services. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint. .

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Experts warn of a spike in May and June of 8Base ransomware attacks

Security Affairs

The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. ” Security experts attributed 67 attacks to the group in May 2023, most of the victims are in the U.S. and Brazil. and Brazil.

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Balikbayan Foxes group spoofs Philippine gov to spread RATs

Security Affairs

Both Remcos and NanoCore are used for information gathering, data exfiltration, surveillance, and control of the victims’ computers. . The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. .

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LockFile Ransomware uses a new intermittent encryption technique

Security Affairs

This trick can be successful against ransomware detection software that relies on inspecting content using statistical analysis to detect encryption.” ransomware: The victims of the Lockfile ransomware gang are in the manufacturing, financial services, engineering, legal, business services, and travel and tourism sectors.

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10 things you must do to become cyber secure

IT Governance

As such, we recommend that you enrol all employees on annual staff awareness courses covering the essentials of cyber security and specific topics, such as phishing and the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). System monitoring enables organisations to detect criminals’ attempts to attack systems and business services.

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