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The systems of SEPE, the Spanish government agency for labor, were taken down following a ransomware attack that hit more than 700 agency offices across Spain. SEPE director Gerado Guitérrez confirmed that the agency's network systems were encrypted by Ryuk ransomware operators after the incident.

CybelAngel announced its major UK expansion with a five-fold investment increase, a series of new hires to its sales and marketing team as well as a new UK office. CybelAngel's decision to expand in the UK follows a series of growth milestones and new additions to its portfolio less than a year after the company's $51 million total funding.

Microsoft users are being targeted with thousands of phishing emails, in an ongoing attack aiming to steal their Office 365 credentials. The attackers add an air of legitimacy to the campaign by leveraging a fake Google reCAPTCHA system and top-level domain landing pages that include the logos of victims' companies.

Microsoft has added XLM macro protection for Microsoft 365 customers by expanding the runtime defense provided by Office 365's integration with Antimalware Scan Interface to include Excel 4.0 macro scanning. Microsoft first extended support for its Antimalware Scan Interface to Office 365 client applications in 2018 to defend customers against attacks using VBA macros.

For the brave - or perhaps foolhardy - senior IT jobs hunters there is an opening at the UK Home Office for a Deputy Director of IT Operations in a lovely '70s era highrise in Croydon. In September, as chief digital, data and technology officer at the Home Office, Joanna Davinson told Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee that delays to the troubled Emergency Services Network would create additional annual costs "In the ballpark" of £550m "Across the whole of the legacy estate".

Designed as cloud-native software, BitDam ATP+ is the only solution that protects Office 365 users from unknown threats at first sight. Office 365 ATP, which is considered to have high detections rates, misses more than 25% of the unknown content-borne threats each day.

Jason Nurse, an associate professor in cybersecurity at the University of Kent, and a visiting academic at the University of Oxford, cautioned that personal photos and information shared via various online platforms used by remote workers can expose not only the employee, but also corporate networks, to threats from savvy attackers who are looking to exploit personal data. With more workers online than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people have gotten so comfortable with sharing photos and other personal information online that they may not be aware of how it can be misused, Nurse said.

In response to a security breach that exposed personal information from around 1.6 million unemployment claims filed last year, the Washington Senate has unanimously passed a measure that creates a state Office of Cybersecurity. The measure, passed by the chamber on Wednesday, creates the new office within the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Office Long Term Servicing Channel and Office 2021 later this year for clients who don't want to get an Office 365 cloud subscription service. These are the company's next perpetual and one-time purchase Office releases, respectively, both of them to get a five-year support lifecycle after Microsoft reduced Office LTSC and Windows 10 LTSC lifecycles from 10 to 5 years.

Microsoft is adding new security warnings to the Security and Compliance Center default alert policies to inform IT admins of detected phishing attempts abusing Microsoft Forms in their tenants. It has recently been made available for personal use to anyone with a Microsoft account after previously being available only to business users with Microsoft 365 Personal and Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions.