White House ‘very in favor’ of bill thought to target TikTok

One of the authors of a Senate bill that would enable the US commerce department to ban technologies with links to foreign governments has said the Biden White House is “very in favor” of the measure, but stopped short of Read More …

Uncle Sam reveals it sent cyber-soldiers to Albania to hunt for Iranian threats

US Cyber Command operators have confirmed they carried out an online defensive mission in Albania, in response to last year’s cyber attacks against the local government. Over the course of the three-month deployment, Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) troops worked Read More …

FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center Releases 2022 Statistics

In the recently released 2022 Internet Crime Report produced by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the numbers confirm that cyber actors continue to plague Americans by targeting U.S. networks, attacking critical infrastructure, holding our money and data for Read More …

China used stolen data to expose CIA operatives in Africa and Europe

Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence, according to three former U.S. officials. The surveillance by Read More …

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the Read More …

Threat Actors Exploited Progress Telerik Vulnerability in U.S. Government IIS Server

Today, the CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Threat Actors Exploit Progress Telerik Vulnerability in U.S. Government IIS Server. This joint CSA provides IT infrastructure defenders Read More …

Hands up who DIDN’T exploit this years-old flaw to ransack a US govt web server…

Multiple criminals, including at least potentially one nation-state group, broke into a US federal government agency’s Microsoft Internet Information Services web server by exploiting a critical three-year-old Telerik bug to achieve remote code execution. The snafu happened between November 2022 Read More …

What happens if you ‘cover up’ a ransomware infection? For Blackbaud, a $3m charge

Blackbaud has agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges that it made misleading disclosures about a 2020 ransomware infection in which crooks stole more than a million files on around 13,000 of the cloud software slinger’s customers. According to Read More …

TSA issues new cybersecurity requirements for airport and aircraft operators

Today, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a new cybersecurity amendment on an emergency basis to the security programs of certain TSA-regulated airport and aircraft operators, following similar measures announced in October 2022 for passenger and freight railroad carriers. This is part of the Read More …