On July 29, 2025, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Australian Cyber Security...more
On June 30, 2025, a Joint Advisory was issued by the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center issued...more
According to statements by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the People’s Republic of China-backed (PRC) hacking group Salt Typhoon, which attacked telecommunications providers last month, is still...more
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, released its annual report to Congress this month. The 793-page report responds to the Commission’s mandate to “monitor, investigate, and report to Congress on the...more
On October 22, 2024, Microsoft issued a threat trend research report entitled “US Healthcare at risk: Strengthening resilience against ransomware attacks.” In it, Microsoft declares that ransomware attacks against the...more
10/24/2024
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency, and other international partners, issued an Alert on September 5, 2024, warning...more
Dragos issued its Industrial Ransomware Analysis for Q2 on August 14, 2024. The analysis shows that ransomware attacks significantly increased in Q2, with many ransomware groups disrupted by law enforcement rebranding...more
On August 1, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the appointment of its first CISA Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. The appointee, Lisa Einstein, served as CISA’s Senior Advisor...more
We previously reported on the concerning mash-up of worldwide cybercriminals, known as Scattered Spider, working together to attack victims.
New reports from Microsoft and others indicate that in the second quarter of...more
7/25/2024
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HC3 Warns Healthcare Organizations about Akira Ransomware Group -
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently warned the health care sector about the Akira ransomware group that...more
2/21/2024
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Personal Data ,
Ransomware ,
Scams ,
USPTO ,
Vulnerability Assessments
In a joint release last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other federal agencies issued a chilling Advisory about the ongoing attacks by Volt Typhoon on U.S. critical infrastructure. Volt...more
There was a big win for the good guys against the bad guys this week. On December 13, 2023, after obtaining an order from the federal court in the Southern District of New York to seize U.S. based infrastructure and take...more
Following the White House’s Executive Order on AI, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued its Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence this week “which is a whole-of-agency plan aligned with national AI...more
On May 16, 2023, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released three advisories applicable to Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The Alerts cover vulnerabilities of Snap One OvrC Cloud, Rockwell...more
5/19/2023
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Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
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Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
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FDD Suggests Space Systems be Designated as Critical Infrastructure -
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) issued a Report late last week entitled Time to Designate Space Systems as Critical...more
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies issued a Report late last week entitled Time to Designate Space Systems as Critical Infrastructure which cogently outlines the risks associated with space systems (which are basically...more
Russia-linked ransomware gang Clop has claimed that it has attacked over 130 organizations since late January, using a zero-day vulnerability in the GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool, and was successful in stealing...more
3/30/2023
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Data Protection ,
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Information Security ,
Information Technology ,
Ransomware ,
Russia ,
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The FBI, CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) recently released a joint cybersecurity advisory, warning organizations about indicators of compromise, and tactics, techniques, and...more
3/24/2023
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Data Protection ,
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Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
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Popular ,
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Threat Management ,
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A joint advisory issued June 7, 2022, by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and the National Security Agency entitled “People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploit Network Providers and...more
6/9/2022
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Data Protection ,
FBI ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Network Security ,
Popular ,
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The U.S. Department of State has announced a $10 million reward for “information leading to the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government,...more
4/28/2022
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Criminal Conspiracy ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Enforcement Guidance ,
Malware ,
Rewards ,
Russia ,
US Department of State
The cybersecurity authorities of the United States (including CISA, FBI, NSA and DOE), Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on April 20, 2022, “to warn...more
4/21/2022
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Cyber Attacks ,
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Data Protection ,
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Military Conflict ,
Regulatory Agencies ,
Risk Management ,
Russia ,
Ukraine ,
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The Department of State’s new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP) commenced operations on April 4, 2022. According to an announcement, the “CDP bureau will address the national security challenges, economic...more
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Russian Government Officials Charged with Hacking U.S. Energy Infrastructure -
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed indictments against four Russian government officials on March 24, 2022,...more
4/4/2022
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Cryptocurrency ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Drones ,
Employee Tracking ,
GPS ,
Hackers ,
Personal Data ,
Russia
Organizations often struggle with budgeting for cybersecurity risk and mitigation. It’s hard to see the return on investment for prevention of things that attack the company through the clouds....more
U.S. officials this week warned government agencies, cybersecurity personnel, and operators of critical infrastructure that Russia might launch cyber-attacks against Ukrainian and U.S. networks at the same time it launches...more
2/17/2022
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Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
FBI ,
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Network Security ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Russia ,
Threat Management ,
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