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Russia on Friday announced it would expel 10 US diplomats and take other retaliatory moves in response to sanctions imposed on Russia by US President Joe Biden a day earlier, The Associated Press reports. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said Moscow will add eight US officials to its sanctions list and move to restrict…

Cybercrime , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Supply Chain Attack Hits Development Environment Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 19, 2021     Hackers used Trojanized Xcode projects to install backdoors on developers’ devices as part of a supply chain attack, security firm Sentinel Labs reports. Xcode is Apple’s integrated development environment for macOS….

Application Security , Governance & Risk Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development None Are Rated Critical, But Analysts Say Patching Each Is Important Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 9, 2021     Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday contained patches for six zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, including two flaws detected by Kaspersky that…

Governance & Risk Management , Government , Incident & Breach Response OIG Report: Bureau Did Not Properly Maintain Security Logs of Incident Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • August 19, 2021     Photo: U.S. Census Bureau Following a breach of some of its servers in January 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau failed to follow standard cybersecurity…

Ransomware attacks continue to be in the headlines everywhere, and are also an almost weekly reoccurring subject in the SANS Newsbites. As useful as many of the reports are that security firms and researchers publish on the subject, they often focus heavily on one particular incident or type of ransomware, and the associated “indicators of…

Indian payment services provider MobiKwik continues to deny reports of a massive security breach impacting millions of customers, despite multiple independent cybersecurity researchers claiming otherwise. Earlier this month, the company took to Twitter to accuse “a media-crazed so-called security researcher” of falsely reporting it had been subject to a security breach. MobiKwik claimed at the…