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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. GhostPulse), and other forms of phishing campaigns.

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Balikbayan Foxes group spoofs Philippine gov to spread RATs

Security Affairs

Experts uncovered a new threat actor, tracked as Balikbayan Foxes, that is impersonating the Philippine government to spread malware. . 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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UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S. orgs with 3 malware

Security Affairs

The group targeted the organization with phishing attacks aimed at spreading at least three new sophisticated malware strains. The phishing messages include links to a malicious website that serves the malware, experts pointed out that the emails had subject lines that were customized for each targeted organization.

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10 things you must do to become cyber secure

IT Governance

Your employees are the ones following your policies and procedures, so they are directly responsible for keeping threats such as ransomware and phishing at bay. System monitoring enables organisations to detect criminals’ attempts to attack systems and business services. Set up system monitoring.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023

IT Governance

When MOVEit was hacked by the Russian Cl0p ransomware gang in May, email addresses and links to government employee surveys were compromised. The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Records breached: 815,000,000 Milford Management Corp.

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Proposed Amendments to NY Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations Impose New Obligations on Large Entities, Boards of Directors and CISOs

Hunton Privacy

In addition to the new heightened requirements for Class A Companies, the Proposed Amendments would impose new requirements for all covered financial institutions, including the following: A covered entity’s cybersecurity policies must (1) be approved at least annually by a “senior governing body” (i.e.,