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21 Mar

Audit Finds Council IT Systems Have Weak Security Controls

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Victoria’s auditor-general has expressed concern over the increasing number of weaknesses in IT controls in the state's local government sector.   According to a new audit, the office found more IT control weaknesses due to increased scrutiny. These weaknesses included access management, policies and procedures, logging and monitoring, backup and recovery, and change management.   The auditor-general noted that poor IT controls increase the risk of unauthorised access, cyber-attacks,...

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21 Feb

APT37 Malware Deployed by North Korea to Target South Korea

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The North Korea-linked threat actor tracked as APT37 has been linked to a piece of new malware dubbed M2RAT in attacks targeting its southern counterpart, suggesting continued evolution of the group's features and tactics. APT37, also tracked under the monikers Reaper, RedEyes, Ricochet Chollima, and ScarCruft, is linked to North Korea's Ministry of State Security (MSS) unlike the Lazarus and...

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20 Feb

Financial Cybercriminals Deploy Ransomware and Clipper Malware

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A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas. Cisco Talos said it "observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines with an exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP) port 3389." The attacks, per the cybersecurity company,...

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19 Feb

CISA Releases Decryptor Tool to Combat New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant

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After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the threat actors have bounced back with an updated version that encrypts more data. The emergence of the new variant was reported by a system administrator on an online forum, where another participant stated that files larger than 128MB...

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