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The US government has named and charged a Russian national, Maxim Rudometov, with allegedly developing and administering the notorious Redline infostealer.
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A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.
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Security researchers at Perception Point have uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign, dubbed “Uncle Scam.” In this AI-powered campaign, threat actors impersonate U.S. government agencies to send fraudulent tender invitations to numerous American enterprises.
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The US government is suing TikTok, claiming the mega-popular app broke the law by playing fast and loose with millions of kids’ privacy.
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The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) – the agency Washington relies on to implement export licensing controls to ensure sanctioned technology doesn’t reach certain nations – revealed on Tuesday it’s struggling to handle a massively increased workload caused by the ever-growing number of Chinese companies added to the US Entity List, thanks to geriatric…
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Two consulting firms, Guidehouse and Nan McKay and Associates, have agreed to pay a total of $11.3 million to resolve allegations of cybersecurity failings over their roll-out of COVID-19 assistance.
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Multiple US security agencies have published advisories on Black Basta after the ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the recent attack on US healthcare provider Ascension.
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Sergei Manevich and Arkady Klebanov (Manevich)The organizers of attacks on media representatives, which have become more frequent over the past six months, were preparing to set fire to the editorial offices of a number of publications and cripple Samal Ibraeva, editor-in-chief of the Ulysmedia website, the source reports.
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CISA and the NSA recently released a series of ten strategies to guide organizations in developing sound cybersecurity practices for their cloud environments. NSA has billed this guide of “top ten” strategies as the “most important practices to improve the security posture of their cloud environments.”
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What leads us to conclude while and when data mining publicly accessible forum communities used by cybercriminals?
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Organizations that sell IT services to Uncle Sam are peeved at proposed changes to procurement rules that would require them to allow US government agencies full access to their systems in the event of a security incident.
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Interview If you are responsible for infosec at a US hospital or other healthcare organization, and you treat the government’s new “voluntary” cybersecurity performance goals (CPGs) as, well, voluntary, you’re ignoring the writing on the wall.
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Comment A vendor establishing a business unit dedicated to government sales is not new or unusual. But Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia’s decision to do so in the USA this week tells a bigger story about Washington’s paranoia regarding the security of critical communications infrastructure security.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is promising a $25,000 reward for the best solution to combat the growing threat of AI voice cloning.