Governments need to beef up cyberdefense for the AI era – which means going back to the basics

Organizations in both private and public sectors are moving to adopt artificial intelligence, but doing so for the latter heightens the importance of security fundamentals.

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‘Voldemort’ Malware Curses Orgs Using Global Tax Authorities

The global malware campaign (that must not be named?) is targeting organizations by impersonating tax authorities, and using custom tools like Google Sheets for command and control.

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Commercial Spyware Vendors Have a Copycat in Top Russian APT

Russia’s Midnight Blizzard infected Mongolian government websites to try to compromise the devices of visitors, using watering-hole tactics.

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NASA Focuses on Cybersecurity of its Mission-Critical Software

The software verification and validation efforts helps NASA improve the safety and cost-effectiveness of its mission critical software. Cybersecurity is now part of the evaluation.

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‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’: US Leaders Prep for Quantum Cryptography Concerns

U.S. cybersecurity leaders are focusing on preparing for the potential risks posed by quantum cryptography tools that could threaten critical infrastructure and national security.

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Employee Arrested for Locking Windows Admins Out of 254 Servers in Extortion Plot

The FBI investigation revealed that the suspect, Daniel Rhyne, had accessed the company’s systems without authorization and changed passwords for various accounts. Rhyne’s actions were intended to deny the company access to its systems and data.

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Third-Party Risk Management is Under the Spotlight

Third-party risk management is a critical issue in the wake of the CrowdStrike IT outage, revealing vulnerabilities within financial institutions related to supply chain resilience, especially in vital sectors like financial services.

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Why Identity Teams Need to Start Reporting to the CISO

Identity management sits with IT for good reason, but now that identity is the common denominator in every attack, it’s time identity security was owned by a leader with a security background, like the CISO.

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UK Labour Party Reprimanded Over Cyberattack Backlog by Privacy Regulator

More than 150 people filed complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) regarding the delay in responding to subject access requests (SARs) after the cyberattack in October 2021.

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Russian APT29 Using NSO Group-Style Exploits in Attacks, Google

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has exposed a new campaign by Russian state-backed APT29, also known as Cozy…

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