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A look back at Patch Tuesday. BlackCat uses malicious Google ads. Social engineering in the third quarter of 2023. Are small businesses in denial about ransomware? Molerats have some new tools. Israel turns to NSO Group's Pegasus to search for hostages taken by Hamas. Tim Starks from the Washington Post examines the potential aftermath of a Russian group hitting a Chinese bank. In our Learning Layer, Sam Meisenberg helps a student understand and create a strategy for the CISSP CAT. And a cyberespionage campaign is attributed to Russia's SVR.\n\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/218\n\nSelected reading.\nAdobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products | CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA)\xa0\nFortinet Releases Security Updates for FortiClient and FortiGate (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | CISA)\xa0\nVMware Releases Security Update for Cloud Director Appliance (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | CISA)\xa0\nCISA Releases Two Industrial Control Systems Advisories (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | CISA)\xa0\nMicrosoft Releases October 2023 Security Updates (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | CISA)\xa0\nMicrosoft November 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 5 zero-days, 58 flaws (BleepingComputer)\nSAP Security Patch Day for November 2023 (Onapsis)\nThe ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Gang is Using Google Ads to Conduct\u2026 (eSentire)\nQ3 2023 Threat Landscape Report: Social Engineering Takes Center Stage (Kroll)\xa0\nOpenText Cybersecurity 2023 Global Ransomware Survey: The risk perception gap (OpenText Blogs)\nTA402 Uses Complex IronWind Infection Chains to Target Middle East-Based Government Entities (Proofpoint)\xa0\nIsrael's NSO unleashes controversial spyware in Gaza conflict (Axios)\xa0\nAPT29 Attacks Embassies Using CVE-2023-38831 (NCSCC)\nCyber-espionage operation on embassies linked to Russia\u2019s Cozy Bear hackers (Record)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices