State and local governments are better equipped to ensure election security than they were four years ago, says Christopher Krebs, director of CISA, who calls on election officials to serve as "risk managers." His comments came at ISMG's Cybersecurity Virtual Summit.
An alert from U.S. National Security Agency and the FBI warns of a recently discovered Russian-deployed malware variant called Drovorub that's designed to target Linux systems, creating a backdoor into targeted networks to exfiltrate data.
Since 2018, an advanced persistent threat group dubbed RedCurl, which has served as a team of for-hire hackers specializing in corporate espionage, has hit at least 14 targets in Canada, Russia, the U.K. and beyond, says cybersecurity firm Group-IB.
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs is out with its latest Global Threat Landscape Report, and it tracks cyber adversaries exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic at a worldwide scale. The best response? A shift to proactive defense, says FortiGuard's Derek Manky, Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances.
The Domain Name System, which is at the heart of the internet, is a rich source of data that can help organizations defend themselves against cybercrime. DNS pioneer Paul Vixie says monitoring DNS traffic is crucial, and it's advisable to run your own recursive resolver.
Cybercriminals have shifted their focus from individuals and smaller businesses to target governments, critical health infrastructure and major corporations to maximize their profits and disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Interpol report warns.
Quantity of threat intelligence isn't an issue. Quality of intel and integrating it effectively into security programs - that's where many organizations struggle. Casey Martin of ReliaQuest shares insight on the keys to a mature threat intel program.
A trio of U.S. government agencies is warning organizations about a hacking campaign using a malware strain that has previously been tied to Chinese hackers. The Taidoor RAT, which has been around for over 10 years, has recently been spotted in several campaigns against IT service providers.
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The speed at which IoT is enabling innovation is far outpacing the ability of the security custodians to implement appropriate controls before these devices hit the market. That creates a classic target-rich environment for the bad guys - one that will require vigorous defense and oversight.
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U.S. and U.K. cybersecurity agencies issued a joint warning this week that over 62,000 QNAP network-attached storage devices worldwide have been infected with data-stealing malware.
The FBI is warning of an increase in distributed denial-of-service attacks using amplification techniques that are targeting U.S. organizations. The bureau notes that it's seen an uptick in attack attempts since February.
If the first rule of combating attempted election interference by nation-states is to watch for when it's happening, where does that leave Britain? A scathing report from Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee concludes that national security was likely trumped by Russian money.
Following Twitter's admission that cryptocurrency scammers socially engineered its employees to gain control of 45 high-profile accounts, one reaction has been: Why didn't anyone crack Twitter sooner? Unfortunately, the answer is that they have, especially if you count nation-states bribing insiders.
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