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Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

Krebs on Security

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. energy facilities. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. Dragonfly 2.0,

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US indicted 4 Russian government employees for attacks on critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

has indicted four Russian government employees for their role in cyberattacks targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in the energy sector worldwide between 2012 and 2018. According to the indictment, the campaigns against the energy sector campaign involved two phases. and international Energy Sector organizations.

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

Historical context There was strong anti-American sentiment woven into the Shamoon “wiper” virus that devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco in August of 2012. Stuxnet was intended to quietly gain deeper footholds and thus remain in prime position to access industrial controls of Iranian plants at an opportune moment. That was a glitch.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

Edinburgh mental health clinic in probe after client information accessed in scam (unknown) Iranian Hackers Hit H&M Israel (unknown) South Africa’s VirginActive goes offline after cyber attack (unknown) B.C. Data breaches. Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

It makes sense that big companies with access to unholy amounts of structured data pioneered the AI era. (Of Of course, if you’re not a big company, and you want access to massive amounts of data, it helps to just take it without asking permission ). Enterprise Data Moves Beyond Marketing.

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