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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. The Powershell is used to retrieve a ZIP archive containing NetSupport RAT that. implacavelvideos[.]com).

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Personal and social information of 1.2B people exposed on an open Elasticsearch install

Security Affairs

The archive contained nearly 3 billion PDL user records associated with roughly 1.2 The archive included 650 million unique email addresses, the data belonging the three different PDL indexes were respectively scraped from LinkedIN (i.e. . The only difference being the data returned by the PDL also contained education histories.”

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Lockbit ransomware gang demanded an 80 million ransom to CDW

Security Affairs

CDW Corporation is a provider of technology solutions and services for business, government and education. A secondary division of the company, known as CDW-G , focuses on United States governmental entities, including as K-12 schools, universities, non-profit healthcare organizations, State & Local and the Federal government.

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Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

Security Affairs

A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. “The user eventually downloads an archive file containing either a malicious LNK file or an executable — eventually leading to a Cobalt Strike loader.”

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Operators behind Dark Caracal are still alive and operational

Security Affairs

The Bandook was spotted last time in 2015 and 2017 campaigns, dubbed “ Operation Manul ” and “ Dark Caracal “, respectively attributed to Kazakh and the Lebanese governments. This circumstance suggests that the implant was developed by a third-party actor and used by multiple APT groups. ” reads the report published by Check Point.

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Unwrapping the Archives

The Texas Record

When most people think of archives, the first thing that comes to mind is Indiana Jones swinging on vines and storing artifacts in giant rooms. While that is an interesting popular image, the archives and archivists here at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) are the protectors of documented history.

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Leveraging Metadata for Enhanced Information Governance 

Gimmal

Enter metadata—a powerful tool that can revolutionize your information governance strategy. Facilitate Compliance and Governance : Use metadata to automate records management processes, apply retention policies, and ensure regulatory compliance. A Visual Analogy Imagine walking down a supermarket aisle looking for soup.