Cybersecurity Job Market Stagnates, Dissatisfaction Abounds

The 2024 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found that amid a tightening job market and dynamic cyber-threat environment, ongoing staffing and skills shortages are putting organizations at serious risk. Can AI move the needle in defenders’ favor?

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FBI: Iranian cyber group targeted Summer Olympics with attack on French display provider

The hacking group’s goal was to “display photo montages denouncing the participation of Israeli athletes in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,” the FBI said.

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Microsoft delays its troubled AI-powered Recall feature yet again

Microsoft needs ‘additional time to refine’ Recall. Here’s the new target date for rollout and what else we know.

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Midnight Blizzard Escalates Spear-Phishing Attacks On Over 100 Organizations

Russian hackers, known as Midnight Blizzard, launch targeted spear-phishing on U.S. officials, exploiting RDP files to gain access to data.

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Canada Grapples With ‘Second-to-None’ PRC-Backed Threat Actors

Chinese APTs lurked in Canadian government networks for five years — and that’s just one among a whole host of threats from Chinese bad actors.

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New Xiū gǒu Phishing Kit Hits UK, US, Japan, Australia Across Key Sectors

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered the “Xiū gǒu” phishing kit targeting users in the UK, US, Spain, Australia, and Japan.…

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Shopping scam sprawled across thousands of websites, bilked ‘tens of millions of dollars’

The crooks hacked legitimate shopping websites and redirected people to fake online shops that sold, but never shipped, hard-to-find items.

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How To Create a Complete GitHub Backup

The issue of GitHub data protection is increasingly discussed among developers on platforms like Reddit, X, and HackerNews.…

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Sophos Used Custom Implants to Surveil Chinese Hackers Targeting Firewall Zero-Days

British EDR vendor Sophos details a years-long “cat-and-mouse” tussle with sophisticated Chinese government-backed hackers.

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The Case Against Abandoning CrowdStrike Post-Outage

Knee-jerk reactions to major vendor outages could do more harm than good.

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