The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics
The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Report Offers Risk Mitigation Advice, Stressing Prompt Patching Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • July 19, 2021 Example of Chinese attackers’ tactics and techniques (Source: Joint Cybersecurity Advisory) Three federal agencies released a 31-page Joint Cybersecurity Advisory Monday that describes 50…
Entornointeligente.com / This marks the second time in recent memory that the United States spied on its NATO ally, with the first coming to light in the Edward Snowden leak in 2013. Bad Aibling Station is a US-operated signals intelligence outpost located in Germany. (Creative Commons) The US has reportedly spied on top politicians in…
Microsoft has warned organizations of a “unique” attack campaign that abuses contact forms published on websites to deliver malicious links to businesses via emails containing fake legal threats, in what’s yet another instance of adversaries abusing legitimate infrastructure to mount evasive campaigns that bypass security protections.“The emails instruct recipients to click a link to review
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Information Handled by the Police Department Exposed Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 25, 2021 The city of Tulsa issued a warning this week that a ransomware group that attacked the city in May leaked more than 18,000…
VMware this week announced the availability of patches for an authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware Carbon Black App Control (AppC) running on Windows machines. Carbon Black App Control is designed to improve the security of servers and other critical systems by locking them down to prevent unauthorized tampering. The newly addressed security hole, the company…
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…