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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn its guidance requiring cybersecurity audits for water utilities across the country following a lawsuit filed by Arkansas, Iowa, and Missouri and supported by trade groups that challenged the viability of water utility cybersecurity regulation in the long term, according to CyberScoop.
Threat actors have targeted .NET developers with a malicious NuGet package typosquatting the Pathoschild.Stardew.ModBuildConfig deploying the SeroXen RAT, The Hacker News reports.
Asian governments, telcos impacted by ToddyCat-linked attack campaign Asian government entities and telecommunications providers, particularly those in Vietnam, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, have been subjected to an ongoing malware attack campaign linked to Chinese cyberespionage operation ToddyCat since 2021, according to BleepingComputer.
Akira ransomware operation's massive remote encryption attack against an industrial organization in June has been circumvented with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's user containment functionality, according to The Hacker News.
While the initial attacks were unsuccessful, security researchers advise patching right away as continued attacks on the healthcare and other sectors will follow.
Patches have been released by Citrix for a critical flaw affecting NetScaler Application Delivery Controller and NetScaler Gateway instances, which could be exploited to facilitate the disclosure of sensitive data without any authentication, according to SecurityWeek.
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