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Policy & Regulation

New Zealand welfare staff face 22 security incidents every single day

Government figures show Ministry of Social Development workers recorded more than 8,000 safety events in a year, from verbal abuse to threats of self-harm. The numbers are down slightly, but the daily reality for front-line staff remains grim.

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Threat Intelligence

Norway's government login systems knocked offline by third DDoS attack in months

A flood of junk traffic hit the agency that runs Norway's public-sector logins and digital ID, snarling tax and citizen services since Monday morning.

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Threat Intelligence

SilkParasite: New Espionage Group Hits Central Asian Governments With Five Unseen Hacking Tools

Researchers have named a fresh spying operation running seven remote-access tools against government offices across the region, five of them never seen before.

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Breaches

France's tax office admits hackers walked off with data on 678,000 people

A criminal listed the stolen database for sale on a hacking forum in August. The French finance ministry now says property records and tax figures were among the files taken.

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Breaches

A Survey Company May Have Leaked Scottish Government Workers' Personal Details

A contractor hired to run a government training exercise lost staff data from Scotland's public prosecution service. The real worry: dozens of other agencies probably handed over the same information.

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Ransomware

Ransomware Hit Colombia's Justice Ministry Five Days Before a New President Took Office

Files were encrypted, services went down, and ColCERT had warned about exactly this kind of attack the day before. Here is what happened, and why Colombia keeps ending up in the crosshairs.

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Threat Intelligence

Leaky Alibaba Cloud Server Exposes China-Linked Spying Kit Aimed at Hospitals and Governments

Researchers at Group-IB stumbled on a misconfigured server in Singapore that revealed a new Windows loader, TriBack, used against targets across Asia and Latin America.

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Policy & Regulation

FedRAMP is scrapping the annual audit. Here's what 20X actually changes.

The old federal cloud approval process runs on PDFs and once-a-year checks. The replacement wants live proof that your controls are working, all the time.

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Threat Intelligence

Brazilian Government Sites Turned Into Malware Traps in PhantomEnigma Campaign

Attackers quietly took over more than 20 official .gov.br domains and used them to push a stealthy backdoor, according to new analysis from ANY.RUN.

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