Today’s interdependent and interconnected world requires joint efforts and holistic approaches to protect critical infrastructure assets from the growing number of attacks and to address ever-evolving cyber threats to government, energy, healthcare, education, banking, transportation, telecommunication and other critical sectors.
With a dedicated section focusing on Critical Infrastructure protection, we aim to enhance cooperation and engage security professionals through news, articles and in-depth analysis of emerging threats and technologies.
NEWS
- The people behind the pixels: why cybersecurity in critical industries is more human than ever
July 3, 2025
When the phone rings at 3am in the world of critical infrastructure cybersecurity, it’s rarely good news. For security professionals protecting water utilities, power grids, and transport networks, these midnight calls often signal that someone, somewhere, is trying to disrupt the services millions depend on. Recent ransomware attacks targeting water treatment facilities remind us that ...
- FBI: Iranian Cyber Actors May Target Vulnerable US Networks and Entities of Interest
June 30, 2025
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), and the National Security Agency (NSA) (hereafter referred to as the authoring agencies) strongly urge organizations to remain vigilant for potential targeted cyber activity against U.S. critical infrastructure and other U.S. entities by Iranian-affiliated cyber ...
- Hacktivist groups led a massive surge in DDoS on US businesses following an attack on Iran
June 28, 2025
An abrupt and massive rise in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against U.S. businesses has coincided with Washington’s involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict. According to Radware’s Director of Threat Intelligence, Pascal Geenens, between June 21 and 22, 2025, hacktivist-led DDoS claims surged by 800%. This dramatic increase was paralleled by a 900% drop in ...
- Canadian Centre for Cyber Security/FBI: People’s Republic of China cyber threat activity
June 20, 2025
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) and the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are warning Canadians of the threat posed by People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actor tracked in industry reporting as Salt Typhoon. The Cyber Centre previously joined our partners in warning that PRC cyber actors have compromised ...
- U.S. companies brace for Israel-Iran cyber spillover
June 17, 2025
As Israel and Iran exchange airstrikes, cybersecurity experts are warning that a quieter, but still destructive, digital conflict is unfolding behind the scenes. And U.S. companies could soon find themselves in the blast radius. Iran and Israel are home to some of the world’s most skilled hackers. Escalating tensions between the two could spill over into ...
- Cyber crime a big threat to Nigeria’s oil, gas sector
May 14, 2025
Nigeria’s strategic oil and gas industry has been urged to beef up its cyber security and avoid massive potential cost to the economy if current measures fail. According to Check Point’s African Perspectives on Cyber Security Report 2024, Nigeria continues to face one of the highest frequencies of cyber attacks in Africa, with organisations being attacked ...
- FBI Seeking Tips about PRC-Targeting of US Telecommunications
April 24, 2025
FBI is issuing this announcement to ask the public to report information about PRC-affiliated activity publicly tracked as “Salt Typhoon” and the compromise of multiple US telecommunications companies, especially information about specific individuals behind the campaign. Investigation into these actors and their activity revealed a broad and significant cyber campaign to leverage access into these ...
- CISA, DHS S&T, INL, LSU Help Energy Industry Partners Strengthen Incident Response and OT Cybersecurity
April 23, 2025
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) hosted Louisiana State University (LSU) and several energy industry and critical infrastructure partners to train against simulated, high-impact cyberattacks on operational technology (OT) and traditional information technology (IT) at CISA’s Control Environment ...
- NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?
April 4, 2025
A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has warned. The technique is known as fast flux. It allows decentralized networks operated by threat actors to hide their infrastructure and survive takedown attempts that would ...