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BleepingComputer reports that the Europol, in coordination with the Belgian and Dutch Police, has successfully disrupted a phishing group behind the theft of several millions of euros following the arrests of nine suspects in the Netherlands, from whom cash, cryptocurrency, electronic devices, jewelry, and firearms and ammunition have been seized.

Cisco has unveiled fixes for four security vulnerabilities impacting its products, including a high-severity vulnerability in its Secure Email and Web Manager and Email Security Appliance, The Register reports.

The Hacker News reports that threat actors could exploit several critical security vulnerabilities in the MEGA cloud storage service to compromise user data confidentiality and integrity.

The National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as well as cybersecurity centers in New Zealand and the U.K., have urged system administrators to leverage PowerShell for malicious Windows machine activity detection and prevention, reports BleepingComputer.

A new Emotet malware has led to a nine-fold increase in the use of Microsoft Excel macros compared with what security experts found in the fourth quarter of 2021.

CyberScoop reports that the U.S., along with law enforcement officials in the Netherlands, Germany, and the U.K., disrupted the Russian botnet dubbed "RSOCKS," which was found to be composed of millions of compromised internet-connected devices, just weeks after the FluBot botnet had been dismantled in a separate international law enforcement operation.

BlackCloak points out that organizations need to do a better job protecting their top executives: some 87% of executives use passwords that have been leaked on the dark web.