Week in review: Quantum-resistant encryption, attackers using deepfakes, Patch Tuesday forecast

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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos:

Healthcare organizations targeted with Maui ransomware
A less known ransomware threat dubbed Maui has been and is likely to continue hitting healthcare organizations, a new CISA alert warns.

Threat actors exchange beacons for badgers to evade endpoint security
Unidentified cyber threat actors have started using Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4), an adversary simulation tool similar to Cobalt Strike, to try to avoid detection by endpoint security solutions and gain a foothold on target networks, Palo Alto Networks researchers have found.

Checkmate ransomware hits QNAP NAS devices
QNAP Systems is warning about Checkmate, a new piece of ransomware targeting users of its network-attached storage (NAS) appliances.

Attackers are using deepfakes to snag remote IT jobs
Malicious individuals are using stolen personally identifiable information (PII) and voice and video deepfakes to try to land remote IT, programming, database and software-related jobs, the FBI has warned last week.

July 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: A summertime lull?
We saw a much smaller number of CVEs addressed last month…

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