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The current economic downturn has meant significant budget cuts for many enterprises. But cyberthreats continue to escalate and businesses need to take them seriously.

A release from the Cybersecurity Advisory outlines what organizations should be on the lookout for when it comes to a Russian cybersecurity attack.

The campaign targets rank and file employees at cryptocurrency firms – namely system administrators and IT or software developers – through social media and other communications. Threat actors have posed as job recruiters offering high paying gigs, slick-looking websites and links a malware-infected cryptocurrency application.

Patch Tuesday is here once again, and this month, security teams must fix two privilege escalation zero-days in the Windows Common Log File System Driver and the Windows User Profile Service

The US authorities have seen fit to add the WatchGuard vulnerability used by Sandworm to build the Cyclops Blink botnet to its list of must-patch vulnerabilities.

Agency issues mitigation advice to help organizations tighten network defenses

DHS warns Russia could launch cyberattacks against US ahead of Ukraine invasion - SiliconANGLE

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre joins US calls to be wary of Russian state interference in critical national infrastructure IT systems.

Business Scoop provides news and views on Business and Markets from New Zealand

An Apple store in London. Apple had become Google’s largest customer of cloud data services. (Jon Rawlinson/CC BY 2.0) Reports Tuesday that Apple had become Google’s largest customer of cloud data services – and that the iCloud data was encrypted by Apple – was viewed as a positive development by some security researchers, who said more companies need to take the shared responsibility model with cloud service providers (CSPs) seriously. The report said Apple was on track to ...