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Cyber Highlights
Vulnerability
Microsoft Adds Python Interpreter To Excel Resulting in Potential Security Implications
Industry impacted: Information Technology
Microsoft announced Excel for Windows will gain a functionality to run Python code in formulas allowing the use of extended data analysis and visualization functions provided by Python and its libraries. Yet, this new feature has security implications related to the possibility of executing malicious scripts, essentially introducing an execution vector similar to macro execution.
Rollups
Industries impacted: Communication Services, Consumer Discretionary, Financials, Government, Health Care, Industrials, Information Technology
- New NoFilter Tool Could Allow Threat Actors to Gain Access to Windows SYSTEM
- Global Play Ransomware Campaign Targets Managed Service Providers Across Multiple Industries
- Akira Ransomware Targets Cisco VPNs to Breach Organizations
- Researchers Find Cyberattacks On Financial Institutions Nearly Double Since 2021 And Result In 254 Million Leaked Records
- Threat Actors Used Spacecolon Toolkit to Spread Scarab Ransomware Variants to Organizations Worldwide
Geo Highlights
The EU Commission To Exercise Increased Scrutiny On Small Mergers
Industry impacted: Industrials, Information Technology
After the European Commission said last week it will use a competition tool that has hardly been used to assess two mergers that do not meet the necessary notifications thresholds under the EU Merger Regulation, QuoIntelligence analyzes the Commission’s stringent scrutiny on small mergers.
Rollups
Industries impacted: Industrials, Information Technology
- BRICS Summit Explores Expansion and Geopolitical Goals
- German Industries Raise Concerns Over Impending EU Carbon Border Tariff Challenges
- German Investment Guarantees in China Decrease as Dependency Concerns Grow
- Big Tech braces for EU Digital Services Act regulations
Outlook
- 8 August – WARNING! Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Releases Patches For 87 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Latest Reports & Finished Intelligence
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- 1 August – Finished Intelligence
News
- 3 August – [Podcast (in German)]
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