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LinkedIn Phishing Ramps Up With More-Targeted Attacks

Dark Reading

Seeking to take advantage of out-of-work users, malware groups continue to use LinkedIn and business services to offer fictional jobs and deliver infections instead.

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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. The researchers did not observe newer variants utilizing older methods.

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Balikbayan Foxes group spoofs Philippine gov to spread RATs

Security Affairs

The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. The threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks using spoofed email addresses. Victims of the group are located in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. .

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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

Advarra says “a limited amount of company data” was “acquired” and its investigation is ongoing.

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FCA Publishes Wholesale Banks and Asset Management Cyber Multi-Firm Review Findings

Data Matters

phishing) and systems (e.g., Testing – the FCA observed wide variations in the difference in approaches to firms’ cybersecurity testing. Of the sample firms, the scale ranged from almost no testing of cyber arrangements at all to extensive programs covering staff (e.g., simulated attacks).