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Trend Analysis Report – Average Weekly Cyber Attacks Increase, Utilities-targeted Attacks Increase 18%

Check Point has written a blog covering its recent analysis of global cyber attack statistics and findings that Q2 of 2023 saw the highest number of average weekly cyber attacks in 2 years. Globally, this translates to organizations having faced an average of 1258 attacks per week, an 8 percent increase overall.

Situational Awareness – Court Temporarily Pauses EPA Memo on Addressing PWS Cybersecurity

It’s been no secret that the March 3, 2023 EPA memo on Addressing PWS Cybersecurity in Sanitary Surveys or an Alternate Process has been challenged from the beginning and has faced legal opposition. Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St. Louis granted a stay of the memo, thus temporarily suspending the current EPA guidance.

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Ransomware Awareness – The Criminal Ransomware Economy Operates a Professional Business Model

Help Net Security has written an article discussing the consequences of the service-oriented ransomware industry’s growth. Due to the intense profitability of the industry, criminals have reproduced a legal economy with major ransomware groups using third parties and subcontractors while offering a menu of services to criminal consumers.

Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Enhanced Monitoring to Detect APT Activity Targeting Outlook Online

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Enhanced Monitoring to Detect APT Activity Targeting Outlook Online, to provide guidance to agencies and critical infrastructure organizations on enhancing monitoring in Microsoft Exchange Online environments. 

Threat Awareness – Defending Against EvilProxy Phishing Toolkit

Despite growing awareness of the threat from phishing emails and greater adoption of multifactor authentication (MFA), threat actors are still successfully compromising firms via phishing attacks and breaching MFA protections with phishing toolkits. To help bring greater awareness to this activity, Proofpoint recently published a blog detailing how network defenders can help mitigate this threat.

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