It’s really OK to take a break sometimes, especially in security
Summary: A Cisco Talos newsletter for Mental Health Awareness Month cites a Mimecast study finding 84 percent of cybersecurity professionals experience some form of burnout that impedes their motivation at work, and a Cybermindz finding that security workers rate their professional efficacy lower than the general population. The same issue reports a new ransomware actor called RA Group, active for about a month and believed with high confidence to use altered leaked Babuk source code, which has run double extortion attacks against three U.S. organizations and one in South Korea across manufacturing, wealth management, insurance and pharmaceuticals.
What's compelling: With 84 percent of security staff reporting burnout that undercuts their motivation, the RA Group's rapid expansion to four victims in a month lands on a workforce already running short on capacity.
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