Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’

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Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Updated Security Approach Designed to Mitigate Ransomware, Nation-State Attack Risks Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • August 10, 2021 Ron Ross, NIST Fellow and one of the co-authors of an updated guide to cyber resiliency As ransomware and nation-state attacks have…
Holding tanks are seen at Colonial Pipeline’s Charlotte Tank Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, US an undated photograph. Colonial Pipeline/Handout via REUTERS US government officials were working closely with top US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline on Sunday to help it recover from a ransomware cyber attack that forced the company to shut a…
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MONTREAL, Feb. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bombardier (TSX: BBD.B) announced today that it recently suffered a limited cybersecurity breach. An initial investigation revealed that an unauthorized party accessed and extracted data by exploiting a vulnerability affecting a third-party file-transfer application, which was running on purpose-built servers isolated from the main Bombardier IT network. In…
FireEye and Microsoft on Thursday said they discovered three more malware strains in connection with the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, including a “sophisticated second-stage backdoor,” as the investigation into the sprawling espionage campaign continues to yield fresh clues about the threat actor’s tactics and techniques. Dubbed GoldMax (aka SUNSHUTTLE), GoldFinder, and Sibot, the new set of…
The US authorities are urging Fortinet customers to patch three legacy vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to compromise government, commercial and technology service provider networks. A joint cybersecurity advisory from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday warned that threat actors are actively scanning for devices via ports 4443, 8443 and…