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

IT Governance

According to the security company Resecurity , which discovered the listing, the data included victims’ name, age, gender, address, passport number and Aadhaar number (a 12-digit government identification number). It secured its systems, notified law enforcement and began investigating the incident. Reading rooms remain open.

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10 things you must do to become cyber secure

IT Governance

One of the most trusted resources is the NCSC’s (National Cyber Security Centre) ten-step guide. For any cyber security strategy to be effective, it needs to be supported by senior managers and applied across the whole organisation. A risk management regime is a top-level framework for addressing security issues.

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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. The post Balikbayan Foxes group spoofs Philippine gov to spread RATs appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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

Data Matters

The review aimed to look more closely at how wholesale banking and asset management firms oversee and manage their cybersecurity, including the extent to which firms identify and mitigate relevant cyber risks and their current capability to respond to and recover from data security incidents. phishing) and systems (e.g.,

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GE Employees Lit Up with Sensitive Doc Breach

Threatpost

Marriage, divorce and death certificates, beneficiary info, passports and more were all caught up in an email takeover hack.