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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 03 May 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 03 May 2024:

-Most Attacks Impacting SMB’s Target Older, Unpatched Vulnerabilities

-91% of Ransomware Victims Paid At least One Ransom in the Past Year, as 1 in 5 Ransomware Attacks Triggers Lawsuit

-BEC and Fund Transfer Fraud Top Insurance Claims

-Correlating Cyber Investments with Business Outcomes

-Vulnerability Exploitation up 180%, 68% of Breaches involved Humans and Supply Chain Weak Link

-MOVEit & Change Healthcare Attacks Designated as Cyber Catastrophe Loss Events by Insurer

-Securing Your Organisation’s Supply Chain: Reducing the Risks of Third Parties

-Why Remote Desktop Tools are Facing an Onslaught of Cyber Threats

-95% of Organisations Revamped Cyber Security Strategies in the Last Year: Make Sure Yours is Right

-Human Factor a Significant Risk for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.

-Microsoft CEO Says it is Putting Security Above All Else in Major Refocus

-Ending the Culture of Silence in Cyber Security; Three Ways to Empower Teams

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 19 April 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 19 April 2024:

-94% of Ransomware Victims Have Their Backups Targeted by Attackers

-Sharing IT Providers Is a Risk for Financial Services, Says IMF, as Rising Cyber Threats Pose Serious Concerns for Financial Stability

-Hackers are Threatening to Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist

-Your Annual Cyber Security Is Not Working, but There is a Solution

-73% of Security Professionals Say They’ve Missed, Ignored or Failed to Act on a High Priority Security Alert

-Russia and Ukraine Top Inaugural World Cyber Crime Index

-Police Takedown Major Cyber Fraud Superstore: Will the Cyber Crime Industry Become More Fragmented?

-Small Businesses See Stable Business Climate; Cite Cyber Security as Top Threat

-The Threat from Inside: 14% Surge in Insider Threats Compared to Previous Year

-Dark Web Sales Driving Major Rise in Credential Attacks as Attackers Pummel Networks with Millions of Login Attempts

-Large Enterprises Experience Breaches, Despite Large Security Stacks - Report Finds 93% of Breaches Lead to Downtime and Data Loss

-Charities Doing Worse than Private Sector in Staving off Cyber Attacks

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 05 April 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 05 April 2024:

-Corporations with Effective Cyber Governance Create 4 Times More Value, Boosting Shareholder Returns

-Ransomware Incidents Reported to UK Financial Regulator Doubled

-Half of British SMEs Have Lost Data in Past Five Years: Threat Indicators Show 2024 Already Promising to be Worse Than 2023

-Researchers Report Sevenfold Increase in Data Theft Cases, as 17 billion Personal Records Exposed in Breaches in 2023

-AI Abuse and Misinformation Campaigns Threaten Financial Institutions

-Security Teams are ‘Overconfident’ About Handling Next-Gen Threats

-AI Makes Phishing Attacks Accessible to Basic Users

-Cyber Attacks Wreaking Physical Disruption on the Rise

-73% Brace for Cyber Security Impact on Business in Next Two Years

-To Stay Ahead of Ransomware Businesses Need to Adopt An Offensive Security Mindset

-Cyber Security Imperative for Protecting Executives

-The Increasing Role of Cyber Security Experts in Complex Legal Disputes

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 15 March 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 15 March 2024:

-Mind The Gap - Mimecast Report Finds Humans Are Biggest Security Flaw

-Three-Quarters of Cyber Victim Are SMBs - Why SMBs are Becoming More Vulnerable

-Cyber Security Skills Gap and Lack of Boardroom Engagement Invite Hacker Havoc

-UK Government’s Ransomware Failings Leave Country ‘Exposed and Unprepared’

-Data Breaches up 72% to New Record High: Cyber Security Incidents Rank as #1 Global Business Threat in 2024

-Finance Sector Facing Huge Number of Cyber Attacks That Could Leave It On its Knees, Highlights the Need to Build a Robust Security Culture

-Microsoft Confirms Russian Hackers Stole Source Code, Some Customer Secrets

-Independent Cyber Security Audits Are Powerful Tools for Boards

-Navigating Cyber Security in The Era of Mergers

-Phishing Tactics Evolve as Sophisticated Vishing and Image-based Phishing Take World by Storm

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Black Arrow Adminivanti, github, mimecast, sophos, joint committee on the national security strategy, jcnss, identity theft resource center, allianz, lockbit, sec, securities and exchange commission, blackberry, midnight blizzard, kremlin, ibm, notpetya, merck, fcc, ipsos, bianlian, stopcrypt, british library, stanford university, black basta, unitedhealth, equilend, nissan, dropbox, chatgpt, magnet goblin, windows smartscreen, darkgate, remcos, redline, pixpirate, sceiner smart lock, jfsc, 23andme, play, lastpass, tiktok, dora, pci dss 4.0, volt typhoon, alabama, pypi, microsoft sccm, hyper-v, fortinet, fortios, fortiproxy, forticlient, sap, adobe, confluence, qnap, marinemax, cisco, wordpress, amd, intel, japan, wef, world economic forum, sans, cyber solidarity act, cyber resilience act, meta, nsa, switzerland, lithuania, us army, okta, france, french, black arrow cyber, black arrow, threat intelligence, osint, ncsc, national cyber security centre, cpni, mi5, gchq, cert, nca, national crime agency, europol, interpol, enisa, nato, cyber, information security, it security, cyber warfare, russia, north korea, china, iran
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 08 March 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 08 March 2024:

-FBI Reports Cyber Crime Losses Reached $12.5 billion in 2023, Ransomware Losses Surged by 74%, Average Ransomw Demand Reaching $600k

-Capita Plans £100 Million in Cost Cuts as it Continues to Grapple With 2023 Cyber Attack, Resulting in Significant Job Losses

-Employment Law Firm Sues IT Company Over Ransomware Attack

-Stolen Passwords are a Hacker Goldmine

-Phishing Attacks Up 40 Percent in 2023; Attackers Leverage Social Engineering for Greater Success

-Business Leaders Don’t Even Know They’ve Been Hacked

-Rising Cyber Security Risks: Insider Threat Main Concern Among Mid-Market Firms

-Security Risks Plague SMEs in Shift to Remote Working

-After Collecting $22 Million, Ransomware Group Stages FBI Takedown

-Cyber Attacks Remain Chief Concern for Businesses

-Two New Ransomware Groups Join Forces to Launch Joint Attacks

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 01 March 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 01 March 2024:

-Phishing, Smishing and Vishing Skyrocket 1,265%

-Business Email Compromise Attacks Are Evolving, But What Can Be Done About It

-Vulnerabilities Count Set to Rise by 25% in 2024

-BYOD Increases Mobile Phishing; Risks Have Never Been Higher

-Risk-based spending: An Imperative for Cyber Security That Demands Board Attention

-If you Pay Ransoms, You May not Get Your Data Back and Worse, You Will Probably Get Hit Again, with 78% of Firms who Paid Then Suffering Repeat Ransomware Attacks

-Cyber Resilience and Cyber Hygiene: Why They Matter to Your Business

-Why Governance, Risk and Compliance Must be Integrated with Cyber Security

-More and More UK Firms Concerned About Insider Threats

-98% of Businesses Linked to Breached Third Parties

-What Companies Should Know About Rising Legal Threats

-CIOs Rethink All-In Cloud Strategies as Five Eyes Nations Warn of Evolving Russian Cyber Espionage Practices Targeting Cloud Environments

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 02 February 2024

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 02 February 2024:

-The Financial Sector Is Plagued by Increasingly Sophisticated Cyber Attacks That Demand a Defensive Paradigm Shift

-The $10 Billion Cyber Insurance Industry Sees a Dangerous Year in Cyber Crime Ahead. AI, Ransomware, and War are its Biggest Concerns

-Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Used Known Identified Tactics to Breach Senior Exec Emails

-Old Methods, New Tricks: Cyber Criminals Are Still Using Social Engineering to Steal Your Credentials

-UK Government Unveils New Cyber Threat Guidelines as 32% of Firms Suffer Attacks in Past Year

-94% of Organisations Would Pay a Ransom, Despite Having ‘Do Not Pay’ Policies, as 79% Faced an Attack in 2023

-Interpol Arrests More than 30 Cyber Criminals in Global Operation

-Divide and Succeed: Splitting IT and Security Makes Business Sense

-Ransomware Groups Gain Clout with False Attack Claims

-Payment Fraud is Hitting Organisations Harder Than Ever Before

-Chinese Hacking Operations Have Entered a Far More Dangerous Phase, US Warns

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 01 December 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 01 December 2023:

-Law Firms Face Surge in Targeted Attacks as Hundreds Impacted by Single Attack

-Approach Cyber Security Awareness Training by Engaging People at All Levels

-Board Support Remains Critical as Majority of CISOs Experience Repeat Cyber Attacks

-Ransomware Attacks Surge 81% in October as New Threat Actors Emerge

-Hacked Microsoft Word Documents Being Used to Trick Windows Users

-Mitigating Deepfake Threats in The Corporate World

-Black Basta Ransomware Made Over $100 Million From Extortion Alone

-Long Recovery Times After Cyber Attacks Could Annihilate Your Organisation

-Booking.com Customers Scammed in Novel Social Engineering Campaign

-Stop Panic Buying Your Security Products and Start Prioritising

-A Fifth of UK SMBs Unable to Spot Scams

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 17 November 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 17 November 2023:

-Cyber Resilience Requires Maturity, Persistence & Board Engagement

-Security is a Process, Not a Tool

-46% of SMBs and Enterprises Have Experienced a Ransomware Attack

-Cyber Threat Intelligence: Getting on the Front Foot Against Adversaries

-67% of Workers Put Businesses at Risk by Downloading Applications and Software Without Permission

-The Persistent Menace: Understanding And Combating Ransomware, as New Ransomware Groups Account for Quarter of All Leaks in 2023

-Financial Services still Stubbornly Vulnerable to Cyber Disruption

-Worlds Biggest Bank Hit by Ransomware, Workers Forced to Trade With USB Sticks

-NCSC Warns UK Over Significant Threat to Critical Infrastructure

-Ransomware Gang Files SEC Complaint Over Victim’s Undisclosed Breach

-Businesses are Losing Huge Chunks of Their Revenue to Cyber Attacks

-Phishing Emails Are More Believable Than Ever. Here's What to Do About It.

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 10 November 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 10 November 2023:

-Boardroom Woes on Ransomware Intensify as Organisations Face an Average of 86 Ransomware-linked Events Annually

-Many SMBs Have No Real Way to Deal with Cyber Threats, Leaving Them Vulnerable

-Cyber Attacks Top Global Risk – 2023 Aon Survey

-To Improve Cyber Defences, Practice for Disaster

-Meet Your New Cyber Security Auditor: Your Insurer

-Allen and Overy Suffer Ransomware Attack

-Shadow IT Remains a Top Threat, as Shown by Attack on Okta

-Ransomware, AI, and Social Engineering All Set to Be 2024's Biggest Security Threats

-Cyber Governance: Growing Expectations for Information Security Oversight and Accountability

-Generative AI Will Level Up Cyber Attacks, According to New Google Report

-Public Wi-Fi Remains a Huge Risk, is Your Organisation Prepared?

-88% of Security Leaders Think Their Organisation Is Falling Short Addressing Cyber Security

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 6 October 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 06 October 2023:

-Many Cyber Attacks Begin by Breaking Human Trust

-BYOD Should Stand for Bring Your Own Disaster, According to Microsoft Ransomware Data

-SME Cyber Security Knowledge Gap Widens

-UK Security Budgets Under Strain as Cyber Incidents Soar

-Cyber Leaders’ Confidence in Their Organisation’s Defences Plummets, But Costs Mount

-FBI Warns of Dual Ransomware as Data Destruction Dwell Times Hit Low of 24 Hours

-Tech-Savvy Young Workers Might Be the Biggest Cyber Liability to Your Business

-Half of Cyber Security Professionals Report Increase in Cyber Attacks, with 60% of Attacks Going Unreported

-Global Cyber Survey Finds 50% Rise in Cyber Insurance Premiums

-Evolving Conversations: Cyber Security as a Business Risk

-Threats in Cloud Top the List of Executive Cyber Concerns

-Over Half of Phishing Emails Now Use Obfuscation Tactics to Avoid Detection

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 22 September 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 22 September 2023:

-New Ransomware Victims Surge by 47% as Small Businesses Targeted

-MGM Resorts Lost Millions of Dollars a Day in What Should be a Wakeup Call for Corporate Boards

-SMEs Overestimate Their Cyber Security Preparedness

-China’s Hacking Power Bigger Than Rest of World Combined

-Cyber Insurance Claims for Ransomware Reach Record High

-Cyber Security Still Remains the Greatest Concern for Many C-Suite Executives

-Bad Torts: Law Firms Feel the Heat from Rising Cyber Threats

-Attacker Deepfakes IT Employees’ Voice in Phone Call to Breach Company

-Insider Risks are Getting Increasingly Costly as Organisations Fail to Proactively Address Them

-Half of Executives Expect Supply Chain Challenges

-How Social Engineering Takes Advantage of Your Kindness

-Employers Blame Employees as 54% of Firms Face Cyber Attacks Annually

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 08 September 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 08 September 2023:

-More Than Half of UK Organisations Know They Aren’t Well Protected

-Generative AI Considered a Security Risk by 60% of Board Members: How Organisations Can Prepare

-Businesses Ignore Incident Response at Their Peril

-Blame Culture: An Organisation’s Ticking Time Bomb

-Spend to Save: CFO’s and Cyber Security Investment

-Cyber Security Tools Are New Targets for Attackers, including Nation-State Actors

-Attackers Access UK Military Data Through Third Party Supplier as Relentless Russian Cyber Attacks Raise Spectre of WW3

-Common Tactics Used by Threat Actors to Weaponise PDFs

-Years-old Microsoft Security Holes Still Hot Targets for Cyber Criminals

-Popular ‘As-a-Service’ Operations Have Earned Cyber Criminals over $64m

-71% of Organisations are Impacted by Cyber Security Skills Shortage

-Multiple Schools Hit by Cyber Attacks Before Term Begins

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 18th August 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 18 August 2023:

-Ransomware Group Targeting MSPs Worldwide in New Campaign

-As Ransomware Surges, A lack of Resources Makes SMBs Most Vulnerable

-Business Email Compromise Attack Costs Far Exceeding Ransomware Losses

-Email Phishing Remains the Main Entry for Cyber Criminals; People with Six Personality Traits are More Susceptible

-Gartner Study Finds Generative AI to be a Top Emerging Risk for Organisations

-LinkedIn Suffers Significant Wave of Account Hacks

-High Net-Worth Families are at Risk of Cyber Crime

-Cyber Attack Rule Raises Insurance Risks for Corporate Officers

-PSNI and UK Voter Breaches Show Data Security Should be Taken More Seriously

-The Imperative of Cyber Preparedness: The Power of Tabletop Exercises

-Why Are Phones a Cyber Security Weak Spot?

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 11 August 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 11 August 2023:

-75% of Organisations Worldwide Set to Ban ChatGPT and Generative AI Apps on Work Devices

-How an Eight-Character Password Could be Cracked in Just a Few Minutes

-Ransomware Victims Surge 143% as Threat Actors Pivot to Zero-Day Exploits

-How Executives’ Personal Devices Threaten Business Security

-77% of Financial Firms Saw an Increase in Cyber Attack Frequency

-Protecting Against Sophisticated Cyber Attacks Requires Layered Defences

-Managing Human Cyber Risks Matters Now More Than Ever

-Hackers are Targeting Top Executives’ Microsoft 365 Accounts to Steal Work Logins

-UK Shaken by Major Data Breaches

-Threat of Cyber Attacks to UK National Security Upgraded: Compared to Chemical Weapons or Nuclear Attack

-Mac Users are Facing More Dangerous Security Threats Than Ever Before

-Cyber Attack to Cost Outsourcing Firm Capita up to £25m

-Government and Public Services Face 40% More Cyber Attacks and Struggle to Protect Due to Lack of Resources

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 4th August 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing 04 August 2023:

-Top 12 Exploited Vulnerabilities List Highlights Troubling Reality: Many Organisations Still Are Not Patching

-67% of Data Breaches Start with a Single Click, with 1 in 100 Emails Being Malicious

-Ransomware Attacks Hit All Time High. Attackers’ Motives Change, So Should Your Defence

-The Generative AI War Between Companies and Hackers is Starting

-Spend to Save: The CFO’s Guide to Cyber Security Investment

-Corporate Boards Take Heed: Give CISOs the Cold Shoulder at your Peril

-How the Talent Shortage Impacts Cyber Security Leadership

-Salesforce, Meta Suffer Phishing Campaign that Evades Typical Detection Methods

-Cyber Insurance and the Ransomware Challenge

-Microsoft Exposes Russian Hackers' Sneaky Phishing Tactics via Microsoft Teams Chats

-66% of Cyber security Leaders Don’t Trust Their Current Cyber Risk Mitigation Strategies

-Startups Should Move Fast and Remember Cyber Security

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 28th July 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 28 July 2023:

-Half of UK businesses Struggle to Fill Cyber Security Skills Gap as Companies Encounter Months-long Delays in Filling Critical Security Positions

-Deloitte Joins fellow Big Four MOVEit victims PWC, EY as MOVEit Victims Exceeds 500

-Why Cyber Security Should Be Part of Your ESG Strategy

-Lawyers Take Frontline Role in Business Response to Cyber Attacks

-Organisations Face Record $4.5M Per Data Breach Incident

-Cryptojacking Soars as Cyber Attacks Diversify

-Ransomware Attacks Skyrocket in 2023

-Blocking Access to ChatGPT is a Short-Term Solution to Mitigate AI Risk

-Protect Your Data Like Your Reputation Depends on It (Because it Does)

-Why CISOs Should Get Involved with Cyber Insurance Negotiation

-Companies Must Have Corporate Cyber Security Experts, SEC Says

-Over 400,000 Corporate Credentials Stolen by Info-stealing Malware

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 21 July 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 21 July 2023:

-Cyber Attacks Reach Two-Year High Amid Ransomware Resurgence as Financial Service Firms Lose $32 Billion in 5 Years

-MOVEit Body Count Closes in on 400 orgs, 20M+ Individuals

-IT Worker Jailed for Impersonating Ransomware Gang to Extort Employer

-Stabilising the Cyber Security Landscape: The CISO Exodus and the Rise of vCISOs

-Risk is Driving Medium-Sized Business Decisions

-Talent and Governance, Not Technology, are Key to Drive Change around Cyber Security

-Hybrid Work, Digital Transformation can Exploit Security Gaps

-Human Cyber-Risk Can Be Demonstrably Mitigated by Behaviour Changing Training

-AI Tool WormGPT Enables Convincing Fake Emails For BEC Attacks

-Pro-Russian Hacktivists Increase Focus on Western Targets

-Infosec Doesn't Know What AI Tools Orgs Are Using

-Google Restricting Internet Access to Some Employees to Reduce Cyber Attack Risk

-Unlocking Business Potential: How CISOs are Transforming Cyber Security into a Strategic Asset

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 07 July 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 07 July 2023:

-Cyber Attacks Against Mobile Devices Growing Fast

-One Third of Security Breaches Go Unnoticed by Security Professionals

-Cyber Security Experts Have Become Targets for Board Seats

-Phishing Attack Prevention as Email Attacks Surge Over 450%

-Outsmarting Business Email Compromise Scammers

-Small Organisations Face Security Threats on a Limited Budget

-Cloud Security: Sometimes the Risks May Outweigh the Rewards

-Cl0p's MOVEit Campaign Represents a New Era in Cyber Attacks

-75% of Consumers Prepared to Ditch Brands Hit by Ransomware

-Scammers Using AI Voice Technology to Commit Crimes

-What are the Causes of Data Loss and What it the Impact on Your Organisation?

-Ransomware Affiliates, Triple Extortion, and the Dark Web Ecosystem

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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 26 May 2023

Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 26 May 2023:

-50% of UK CEOs See Cyber as a Bigger Business Risk than the Economy

-Report Finds 78% of Organisations Felt Prepared for Ransomware Attacks, Yet Half Still Fell Victim

-SMBs and Regional MSPs are Increasingly Targeted by State-Sponsored APT Groups

-IT Employee Piggybacked on Cyber Attack for Personal Gain

-Ransomware Threats Are Growing, and Targeting Microsoft Devices More and More

-Microsoft Reports Jump in Business Email Compromise (BEC) Activity

-Forrester Predicts 2023’s Top Cyber security Threats: From Generative AI to Geopolitical Tensions

-Advanced Phishing Attacks Surge 356% in 2022

-Today’s Cyber Defence Challenges: Complexity and a False Sense of Security

-Almost All Ransomware Attacks Target Backups, Says Veeam

-NCSC Warns Against Chinese Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

-Half of all Companies were Impacted by Spearphishing in 2022

-Google's .zip, .mov Domains Give Social Engineers a Shiny New Tool

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