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Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Joseph Blankenship of Forrester Describes Efforts to Enlist Insiders for Fraud Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • June 22, 2021     Joseph Blankenship, vice president, research director, Forrester Cybercriminals and nation-states are attempting to recruit insiders at companies around…

Chinese nation-state hackers have been linked to an attack on the Parliament of Finland that took place last year and led to the compromise of some parliament email accounts. “Some parliament e-mail accounts may have been compromised as a result of the attack, among them e-mail accounts that belong to MPs,” Parliament officials said at…

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The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has denied carrying out a cyber attack on software business SolarWinds which gave hackers access to large portions of the US government as well as hundreds of businesses. Sergei Naryshkin, the director of Russia’s SVR spy agency, said he was “flattered” by US and UK accusations that his…

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Security Experts Size Up Impact of US Rush to Leave Afghanistan Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • August 17, 2021     It’s unlikely that the U.S. abandoning its embassy and other facilities in Afghanistan poses cyber risks, thanks to the emergency planning…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service With Nonstop Cryptocurrency Paydays, No Wonder Extortionists Love Ransomware Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 10, 2021     Ransom note for a REvil – aka Sodinokibi – ransomware infection (Source: Cisco Talos) Is it any wonder that criminals keep flocking to ransomware when their individual haul…