Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’
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By Asheer Malhotra and Justin Thattil. Cisco Talos is tracking an increase in SideCopy’s activities targeting government personnel in India using themes and tactics similar to APT36 (aka Mythic Leopard and Transparent Tribe). SideCopy is an APT group that mimics the Sidewinder APT’s infection chains to deliver its own set of malware. We’ve discovered multiple…
The National Security Agency announced Thursday the kick-off of its 20th annual National Cyber Exercise (NCX), a three-day annual cyber competition that tests the offensive and defensive cybersecurity skills of participant teams from U.S. Service Academies and Senior Military Colleges as well as civilian interns from NSA’s cyber-focused development programs. NSA’s National Cyber Exercise (NCX)…
Today is International Women’s Day. The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Northumbria, Kim McGuiness called for women’s voices in policing to be heard and understood. She said: “And it doesn’t end there. We have to make sure we are responding to what they are saying. It’s not just about recruitment either. Of course, we…
CrowdStrike Inc., today announced the release of the 2021 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, detailing unique insights to the global threat landscape and offering best practices for organizations looking to amplify their cybersecurity maturity in 2021. The findings suggest supply chain attacks, ransomware, data extortion and nation-state threats prove to be more prolific than ever. On…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Commerce Department Says Organizations Are Aligned With Russian Intelligence Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • July 17, 2021 U.S. Department of Commerce (Source: Brandon Mowinkel/Unsplash) The Department of Commerce is restricting trade with four Russian information technology and cybersecurity firms, along with…
America’s top law enforcement agency “obtained a court order that allowed it to remove a backdoor program from hundreds of private Microsoft Exchange servers that were hacked through zero-day vulnerabilities earlier this year,” reports CSO. (Thanks to detritus. (Slashdot reader #46,421) for sharing the news…) Earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced that the…