Data Breach Today

JANUARY 31, 2024

FBI and CISA Detail Operation to Prevent Chinese Attacks on Critical Infrastructure The FBI launched a court-authorized sting operation against a Chinese hacking group known as Volt Typhoon, partnering with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a cohort of U.S.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency hopes to expand voluntary information sharing between the federal government and open-source software operators with a series of actions the agency announced following a two-day open-source security summit held at its Virginia headquarters.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Threat Actor Likely Operates From A Region With A Strategic Interest In Taiwan A previously undetected cyberespionage group spied against Taiwanese government agencies and the island-country's manufacturing sector, say cybersecurity researchers.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Strengthening OT Security with HCLTech and Microsoft In an age reliant on operational technology, ensuring robust security for diverse industries is crucial. Join us as we discuss operational challenges, highlighting specific threats faced by businesses today. We will discuss:

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Strengthening OT Security with HCLTech and Microsoft In an age reliant on operational technology, ensuring robust security for diverse industries is crucial. Join us as we discuss operational challenges, highlighting specific threats faced by businesses today. We will discuss:

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

WillJam Ventures Standing Up Joint Venture With AT&T for Managed Cybersecurity Unit AT&T will split its managed cybersecurity services practice from its core connectivity business by standing up a joint venture with Chicago-area investor WillJam Ventures.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Rami Raulas on Why SSH Plans to Invest in Zero Trust, OT Defense and Quantum Safety In his first week in his new role as interim CEO of SSH Communications Security, Rami Raulas shares insights on the company’s strategic focus on zero trust, operational technology security, and quantum-safe cryptography to address evolving cybersecurity challenges.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was setting up a variety of real-time initiatives to provide technical support and cybersecurity assistance for election offices nationwide, including an Election Day operations center and a virtual cyber situational awareness room.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Firm Seeks 60-Day Marketing, Sale Process to Test Value of Assets, Equity in Market A "cloud of uncertainty" strained IronNet's cash flows and negatively affected liquidity to the point where the cybersecurity vendor had to begin winding down operations. The firm once valued at $1.2

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Company Starts Patch Rollout for Flaws Exploited by Likely Chinese Intelligence Op Corporate VPN maker Ivanti on Wednesday began a belated patch rollout for zero-day flaws that many cybersecurity firms say paved the way for an espionage hacking operation likely conducted by China.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Subsidiary IPO Will Split High-Growth IoT Unit From Low-Growth Cybersecurity Unit BlackBerry will split its $418 million cybersecurity business and $206 million IoT business into separate, independently operated entities following a strategic review that lasted five months.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning critical infrastructure owners and operators about the dangers associated with the increasing reliance on Chinese unmanned aircraft systems, warning their use in CI sectors "risks exposing sensitive information to PRC authorities."

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Report Reveals How Hackers Targeted Danish Energy Infrastructure in Sweeping Attack Critical infrastructure operators across Denmark experienced the most extensive cybersecurity incident in Danish history earlier this year when hackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in firewalls meant to protect their networks from attacks, according to a new report (..)

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Atlanta Man Pleads Guilty, Is Ordered to Pay $818,000 Restitution, May Avoid Prison The chief operating officer of an Atlanta-based cybersecurity firm has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay restitution of more than $818,000 in a federal criminal case in which he admitted hacking a Georgia medical center in 2018 in an effort to drum up business for his (..)

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AUGUST 30, 2023

US Funds for Regional SOC, Use of Trusted 5G Providers Follows Big 2022 Cyberattack Costa Rica will build a national cybersecurity operations center with substantial U.S. The State Department extended $25 million to build a virtual security operations center.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Startup Company Vows It Will Earn $1 Billion in Annual Recurring Revenue Fast-growing cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz snagged a former Zscaler executive as its new chief operating officer and president as the company prepares to go public. Wiz announced Monday that Dali Rajic has jumped to the New York-headquartered company.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Citrix Bleed May Have Struck Again Operations resumed Monday at four major Australian ports incapacitated by a cybersecurity incident. Dubai-based DP World took systems offline Friday, provoking what government officials called a significant outage frustrating the movement of goods in and out of the country.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Subsidiary IPO Canceled in Announcement, Naming John Giamatteo as CEO BlackBerry reversed plans for an equity carve-out of its internet of things business in a Monday announcement of plans to instead make its cybersecurity and IoT units independently operated entities.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Nationally Significant Cyber Incident' Impacts Imports and Exports A cybersecurity incident at an operator of major Australian maritime ports caused what a government official on Saturday called a "nationally significant" outage frustrating the movement of goods in and out of the country.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

In this episode of CyberEd.io's podcast series "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Alex Zeltcer of nSure.ai discusses how fraudsters access your payment information, how industrialized payment fraud attacks operate, and how nSure.ai uses discriminative AI to identify these attacks and cut their scale.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Alphv/BlackCat Group Reportedly Hit Casino Operator via Social Engineering Attack Booking and reservation systems, as well as slot machines, hotel room door locks, ATMs and more remain offline at multiple MGM Resorts properties as the publicly traded casino hotel giant battles "a cybersecurity issue" that one group of security researchers has tied (..)

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OCTOBER 7, 2023

Brand-New Android Smartphones, Tablets and Connected TVs Harboring Trojan Backdoor Tens of thousands of knockoff Android products manufactured in China including TV streaming boxes reached consumers infected with malware, say cybersecurity researchers.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Nation-States Running Information Operations Embrace AI-Generated Images and Video Hackers wielding generative artificial intelligence tools have yet to pose a serious cybersecurity risk, say researchers at Google's threat intelligence group Mandiant, as they sound the alarm instead about a rise in information operations featuring AI-generated fake (..)

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2024

The technology and best practices for treating cybersecurity as a business enabler, instead of an onerous cost-center, have long been readily available. Now comes a Forrester Research report that vividly highlights why attaining and sustaining a robust cybersecurity posture translates into a competitive edge.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Researchers Allege Cloudzy Lacks Know-Your-Customer Safeguards, Operates From Iran A little-known cloud infrastructure provider called Cloudzy has been facilitating nation-state hackers, commercial spyware operations and ransomware affiliates' attacks by failing to keep a close eye on what its customers are doing, researchers at cybersecurity firm (..)

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Annual Federal Funding Will Expire in 12 Days Cybersecurity experts urged Congress to avoid a government shutdown on Oct. Congress has yet to approve funding bills necessary to keep most federal agencies operational.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Regulator Will Publish Guide for Organizations That Process Data on a Large Scale The French data regulator is calling on operators of large scale databases to shore up defenses against a slew of threats including nation-states and sophisticated hackers capable of exploiting the supply chain or zero day flaws.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While industries like financial services and healthcare tend to dominate in IT attacks, the tables are turned when looking at Operational Technology (OT) cyber attacks – and the energy sector is the clear “winner.”

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JULY 25, 2022

federal regulators are revamping their approach to oil pipeline cybersecurity by telling operators they have newfound latitude so long as they implement continuous monitoring and test their posture. Pipeline cybersecurity became a priority after a 2021 ransomware attack led to gas shortages.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2023

Paris, France, July 27, 2023 – CrowdSec , the pioneering open source and collaborative cybersecurity company, today released its Q2 2023 Majority Report , a comprehensive community-driven data report fueled by the collective efforts of its thousands of users. Only 5% of reported IPs are flagged as VPN or proxy users. •The

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MARCH 21, 2023

European Cybersecurity Agency Warns That Digital Extortion Is Coming for OT Europe's cybersecurity agency predicts hackers will take advantage of the growing overlap between information and operational technologies in the transport sector and disrupt OT processes in a targeted attack.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trend Micro: Operators Rebrand "Supplier" Ransomware Before Deployment Researchers at cybersecurity firm Trend Micro have observed the adoption of a new franchise-based business model by ransomware operators that moves away from the traditional ransomware-as-a-service model.

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JULY 24, 2023

Experts Discuss Fraud, Security, Implementation Hurdles With Fast Payment Program Now that the long-awaited FedNow faster-payment program is operating, experts debate whether U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 30, 2019

On May 24, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (the “CAC”), together with eleven other relevant government authorities, jointly released the draft Cybersecurity Review Measures for public comment. Cybersecurity Review Working Mechanism. Security Risk Report and Cybersecurity Review. Applicability. Procurement Contracts.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A hacking gang known as Scattered Spiders soundly defeated the cybersecurity defenses of MGM and Caesars casinos. For the moment, hackers appear to have the upper hand in the global chess match between cybersecurity professionals and digital criminals. How they steamrolled multi-factor authentication is a reason for pause.

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JULY 12, 2022

Hack Attacks That Affect Operational Security Environments Remain Rare The Predatory Sparrow hacking group recently claimed to have triggered fires in multiple state-run Iranian steel foundries via hack attacks. Clearly, industrial cybersecurity remains essential.

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JULY 20, 2021

Agency Cites 'Ongoing Cybersecurity Threat' The U.S. Transportation Security Administration issued a directive Tuesday requiring owners and operators of oil and natural gas pipelines to implement several cybersecurity controls. Earlier, the TSA had issued new incident reporting requirements for these companies.

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