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Computing Giant Continues the Fight Against Malicious Macros Microsoft, in its February monthly dump of fixes, is patching three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, including one that coaxes users into downloading a file that bypasses Office security features. In all, the computing giant pushed fixes for 77 vulnerabilities.http://dlvr.it/SjTJKr

UK Toughens Anti-Cybercrime Stance by Sanctioning Accused Operators for First Time As ransomware continues to disrupt British organizations, the U.K. for the first time has sanctioned alleged cybercriminals, including accused Conti and TrickBot operators. Ransomware victims must conduct due diligence before paying any ransom, as violating sanctions carries severe penalties.http://dlvr.it/SjTHb0

Google Fi users have received emails regarding a recent data breach at T-Mobile. From November 2022 through January 2023, hackers were able to obtain unauthorized access to data for 37 million T-Mobile …http://dlvr.it/SjTDJc

Police Say Responses to Nonemergencies Are Delayed; Emergency Systems Unaffected The California city of Oakland is in a state of emergency as its response to a ransomware attack enters its second week. The attack did not affect emergency systems, including 911 dispatch and fire services, or the city’s financial systems, the city says.http://dlvr.it/SjSzy5

ICYMI: Here’s Where Risk Management Is In 2023 This discussion on risk management emphasizes the challenges of implementing effective risk management practices in the real world, using the pandemic as a global example of risk management.http://dlvr.it/SjQWXq

The hackers behind Prilex PoS (point-of-sale) malware have developed a new way to steal credit card information to target customers using contactless or “tap-to-pay” payments. Prilex PoS malware has stolen credit card …http://dlvr.it/SjQJ94

ICYMI: Attackers Demand 80 Bitcoins, Threaten to Put Data Up for Sale If Demands Not Met A previously unknown, self-proclaimed politically-motivated hacking group disrupted Israel’s Technion University following a Sunday ransomware attack. Attackers, going under the name “DarkBit,” took credit for the attack in a Telegram post accusing Technion of serving “an apartheid regime.”http://dlvr.it/SjQFrJ

ICYMI: CEO Gil Shwed Says Building Rather Than Buying SD-WAN Provides Tighter Integrations Check Point has at last introduced an SD-WAN offering that supports more than 1,000 applications and is tightly integrated into the company’s network security stack, CEO Gil Shwed says. The debut of Quantum SD-WAN makes Check Point Software the last major firewall…
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ICYMI: Experts Urge Rapid File Transfer Software Patching to Fix Zero-Day Vulnerability Attackers have been actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in widely used managed file transfer software GoAnywhere MFT to take full control of systems, and in some cases to deploy ransomware. Vendor Fortra has released a patch and urged users to review systems for…
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Here’s Where Risk Management Is In 2023 This discussion on risk management emphasizes the challenges of implementing effective risk management practices in the real world, using the pandemic as a global example of risk management.http://dlvr.it/SjMcKs