The White House is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics – Nextgov

Hackers behind one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency heists have returned more than a third of about US$600 million (A$814 million) in digital coins they stole, blockchain researchers said on Wednesday. Poly Network, a decentralised finance platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, announced the hack on Twitter, posting details of digital wallets to which the tokens…

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Suspicious Activity Detected; Investigation Continues Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 30, 2021     The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is investigating whether five government agencies may have been breached when attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure VPN products, according to…

BlackBerry this week informed customers that the QNX embedded operating system is affected by a BadAlloc vulnerability leading to arbitrary code execution or denial of service. Publicly disclosed in April, BadAlloc is a collection of 25 vulnerabilities impacting many Internet of Things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) devices. The flaws can allow malicious attackers to…

Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware In Wake of Colonial Pipeline Attack, Ransomware as Unrestrained as Ever, Experts Say Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 2, 2021     JBS’s facility in Greeley, Colorado. (Photo: Mizzou CAFNR via Flickr/CC) The White House says it has put Russia on notice over the ransomware attack…

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response Also: Top Healthcare CISOs’ Cybersecurity Concerns; Fresh NIST Resiliency Guidance Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 13, 2021     Clockwise, from top left: Scott Ferguson, Mathew Schwartz, Marianne Kolbasuk McGee and Tom Field What’s hot in the…

Google is still racing to pull Android apps that commit major privacy violations. Ars Technica notes that Google has removed nine apps from the Play Store after Dr. Web analysts discovered they were trojans stealing Facebook login details. These weren’t obscure titles — the malware had over 5.8 million combined downloads and posed as easy-to-find…