President Joe Biden's nominees for White House cyber director and CISA director faced questions from senators during their confirmation hearing Thursday, including how the federal government should respond to a recent spate of ransomware attacks and other cyberthreats.
The ransomware attack that disrupted operations at meat processing giant JBS has exposed cybersecurity shortcomings in the U.S. agricultural sector and food supply chain. Experts say the industry demands the level of security scrutiny given to the electrical grid and other critical infrastructure.
According to a Threat Landscape Trends report for Q2 2020, cryptojacking saw a 163% increase in detections, compared to previous quarters. 35% of organizations indicated in a survey by NinjaRMM, that ransomware attacks resulted in up to $5 million in damages. Similarly we see an explosion in DDoS attacks. In times...
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has seized two domains that were used during a recent phishing campaign that targeted a marketing firm used by the U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID - to send malicious messages to thousands of potential victims.
A Russian group that was behind the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack has returned with a fresh phishing campaign, according to Microsoft. This new campaign compromised a marketing firm used by the U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID - to send malicious messages to thousands.
Advanced persistent threat groups are continuing to exploit unpatched flaws in Fortinet products, the FBI warns in a flash alert. For example, an APT group apparently recently exploited a Fortigate appliance to access a web server hosting the domain for a U.S. municipal government, the bureau says.
Belgium's interior ministry, Federal Public Service Interior, is investigating an attack against its network that appears to have the hallmarks of a cyberespionage campaign.
Network intrusion displaced phishing as the leading hack-attack tactic last year, while ransomware continued to surge as the pandemic complicated incident response efforts, says BakerHostetler's Craig A. Hoffman, who describes trends from the 1,250 incidents his firm helped manage.
In a session at RSA Conference 2021, three cybersecurity experts said top priorities among the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission's recommendations that have not yet been carried out are adopting a federal data breach notification law and improving public-private partnerships.
What are the top cybercrime trends and threats coming up, and what should organizations be doing now to best prepare? Trend Micro's Rik Ferguson describes threats that are likely to emerge and intensify by 2030 and what security steps all organizations should be taking now.
A new WastedLocker malware variant, dubbed WastedLoader, is exploiting two vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer to insert malicious advertisements into legitimate websites, the security firm Bitdefender reports.
Large enterprises generally have a good grasp on gathering and operationalizing threat intelligence. But when it comes to the midmarket, there are unique challenges. Neal Dennis of Cyware Labs tells how to overcome these obstacles and achieve value from a threat intel platform.
In this video interview with ISMG,...
In the wake of recent attacks on supply chains and critical infrastructure, Adrian Mayers says it's time for cybersecurity to be seen as an issue of national defense, and that cybersecurity leaders throughout the private and public sectors must embrace their role to protect national interests.
Investigators at industrial cybersecurity specialist Dragos say an employee of the water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, where a cyberattack was thwarted, had visited an infected website the same day, but that apparently played no role in the security incident.
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