Serve your country through cyber, White House says

Earlier this week, the United States White House unveiled a new initiative, called Service for America. This initiative, created together with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM), aims to get more people interested Read More …

US Department of Homeland Security looks to infosec testbed to help protect ports

The US Department of Homeland Security has outlined plans to enhance cyber security through the Maritime Transport System (MTS).The department’s aim is to protect the system and infrastructure used to ensure safe and free navigation of US waterways. Ports are Read More …

Russian Military Cyber Actors Target U.S. and Global Critical Infrastructure

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) assess that cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155) are responsible for Read More …

North Korea Aggressively Targeting Crypto Industry with Well-Disguised Social Engineering Attacks

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“DPRK” aka North Korea) is conducting highly tailored, difficult-to-detect social engineering campaigns against employees of decentralized finance (“DeFi”), cryptocurrency, and similar businesses to deploy malware and steal company cryptocurrency. North Korean social engineering schemes Read More …

City of Columbus sues researcher for sharing leaked ransomware data

The City of Columbus, Ohio, has taken legal action against a security researcher who shared leaked data from a ransomware attack against the city with members of the news media. A lawsuit filed last week alleges that the actions of Read More …

#StopRansomware: RansomHub Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and partners are releasing this joint advisory to disseminate known RansomHub ransomware IOCs and TTPs. These have been identified through FBI threat response activities and third-party reporting as recently as August 2024. RansomHub is Read More …

Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn network defenders that, as of August 2024, a group of Read More …

Hunters International ransomware gang threatens to leak US Marshals data

The Hunters International ransomware group is threatening to leak what it claims to be 386 GB of data from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), more than a year after the federal law enforcement agency suffered a major ransomware attack. The Read More …

Ransomware attacks on schools threaten student data nationwide

Imagine a criminal gaining unrestricted access to your child’s most private information — medical records, Social Security numbers and even details about their daily bus ride to school. This alarming scenario is becoming a reality for a growing number of Read More …