The White House and CISA have named key cybersecurity officials as part of their national resilience strategy rollout. Harry Wingo will become the deputy national cyber director, while Bridget Bean is set to be the new executive director at CISA.
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Most CISOs are feeling unprepared for new compliance regulations, such as the SEC’s cybersecurity disclosure rules in the USA and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in the EU, presenting a significant challenge.
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GenAI-related domains are being registered daily with suspicious activity, including those linked to malware like ransomware and phishing. The trend in GenAI-related domain registrations mirrors industry milestones.
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The operation started in France on July 18, 2024, and is anticipated to extend to other countries like Malta, Portugal, Croatia, Slovakia, and Austria. Victims in France will be individually notified by the ANSSI about the clean-up process.
Existing investors Greylock Partners, Cyberstarts, Insight Partners, and Index Ventures are collectively described as “leading” the round. Dazz, which launched in 2021, has now raised around $110 million in total.
Meta has taken down 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria involved in sextortion scams, including a network of 2,500 accounts linked to 20 individuals targeting adult men in the US.
A threat actor known as Stargazer Goblin has set up a network of inauthentic GitHub accounts to fuel a Distribution-as-a-Service (DaaS) that propagates a variety of information-stealing malware and netting them $100,000 in illicit profits over the past year.
The network, which comprises over 3,000 accounts on the cloud-based code hosting platform, spans thousands of repositories that are used to
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