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The US will ban the sale of anti-virus products made by Russian vendor Kaspersky to American customers from July onwards, a report says.

On 3 May, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella issued a long statement, saying in effect that security would be the most important thing for the company from now on.

A state-level actor, suspected to be from Russia and known as APT28 or Forest Blizzard, has been using malware known as GooseEgg to exploit a vulnerability within the Windows Print Spooler service.

The director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, claims that China's alleged targeting of the agency "should be of concern to all Australians".

A suspected Russian intrusion into Microsoft's corporate systems, which was disclosed in January, also affected US federal government systems, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Microsoft has issued a second post about the attack on its systems by an alleged Russian actor, revealing that the same actor also attacked a number of other organisations, one of which was HPE.

What has the Australian Government achieved by placing sanctions on Russian attacker Aleksandr Ermakov for allegedly being the main person behind the intrusion into health insurer Medibank?

Attackers claimed to be backed by Russia were inside Microsoft's corporate systems for nearly two months before the company detected their presence, it says in a blog post published on Friday.

Ukranian telco operator Lifecell has managed to launch more than 800 new base stations across the country, providing citizens connections, despite being in war with Russia since February 2022.

Microsoft has warned users of its products that unpatched security holes in both Windows and Office are being exploited and hinted that it could release patches for these before its next monthly release.

Behind the war taking place on the ground, there's a cyber-war being waged by shady hacktivists who are increasing their operations both in Eastern Europe and around the world.

GUEST RESEARCH: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced the findings of its latest Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers in Q1 2023. Key findings from the data show phishers leveraging browser-based social engineering strategies, new malware with ties to nation states, high amounts of zero day malware, living-off-the-land attacks on the rise, and more. This edition of the report also features a new, dedicated section for the Threat Lab team's quarterly ransomware tracking and analysis.

A class-action lawsuit against Apple over a 2018 comment by its chief executive, Tim Cook, about sales in China, will go ahead with a US judge giving the green light on Monday for accusations of defrauding shareholders to be tested in court.

Well-known ransomware threat researcher Brett Callow has poured cold water on claims that ransomware, which sought to capitalise on the recent Wagner group incidents, has been targeting Windows users in Russia.

Not for the first time, the industrial cyber security firm Dragos has contradicted popular conclusions about malware, saying its research into the ICS malware, dubbed COSMICENERGY by the Google-owned Mandiant, has found that it is not an immediate threat to operational technology.

Apple has issued fixes for two flaws in its iOS and iPadOS operating systems that were used to attack employees of Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released a new report Hacktivism Unveiled: Insights into the Footprints of Hacktivists.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware has released a new advisory about a pro-Russian hacktivist group called Zarya.

The United States has announced the creation of what it calls a Disruptive Technology Strike Force which, among other tasks, will check for criminal violations of export laws.

GUEST OPINION: Venafi, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, has released its predictions for the cybersecurity landscape in 2023, indicating that this will be one the most challenging years yet for the cybersecurity industry.