As Russia masses troops on its border with Ukraine, the White House says Russian disinformation campaigns have been aimed at destabilizing Ukraine's government, while experts have seen a surge in "cyber intrusions" against infrastructure, banking and government targets in advance of a potential invasion.
CISA, the FBI, the NSA and several of their international law enforcement partners have issued a joint advisory on the known vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j software library urging "any organization using products with Log4j to mitigate and patch immediately."
A week after announcing a new bug bounty program called "Hack DHS," U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that DHS is expanding the scope of the program to include finding and patching Log4j-related vulnerabilities in the systems.
Michael Lines is working with Information Security Media Group to promote awareness of the need for cyber risk management, and as a part of that initiative, the CyberEdBoard will post draft chapters from his upcoming book, "Heuristic Risk Management: Be Aware, Get Prepared, Defend Yourself." This post's chapter is...
The spyware of sanctioned Israeli firm NSO Group was reportedly detected on the smartphones of high-profile Polish figures associated with the nation's opposition party. And the spyware has also reportedly been tied to the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of the late journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Chinese state-sponsored threat group Tropic Trooper has resurfaced as Earth Centaur and is targeting the transportation industry and government agencies associated with that sector, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro.
For anyone hoping to celebrate the decline and fall of ransomware by year's end, think again. While some notable operations have bowed out - at least in name - threat intelligence firm Intel 471 warns that newcomers now account for the majority of attacks, and attack volume is "still on the rise."
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including mitigating the Apache Log4j zero-day vulnerability, findings from a new report analyzing the Conti ransomware attack on Ireland's Health Services Executive and President Biden's drive to...
What's in store for defenders as attackers increasingly try to target the ubiquitous Apache Log4j vulnerability? "Everyone is a target," says veteran cybersecurity leader Etay Maor, whose team at Cato Networks has been analyzing hundreds of attacks that already attempt to exploit the flaw.
The year is ending with a cybersecurity bang - not whimper - due to the widespread prevalence of the Apache Log4j vulnerability. Researchers warn that at least 40% of corporate networks have been targeted by attackers seeking to exploit the flaw. More than 250 vendors have already issued security advisories.
The Biden administration has announced that the U.S. and several allies have aligned to create the Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative, which puts stricter criteria around the export of certain offensive cyber tools, particularly those that end up in the hands of authoritarian regimes.
The SideCopy APT group's attacks on military and government institutions in India and Afghanistan used new lures, payload delivery mechanisms, and other tactics, according to a report by researchers at threat intelligence firm Malwarebytes.
The U.K. High Court has upheld the U.S. government's request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, after receiving assurances about the conditions in which the 50-year-old would be held. Assange reportedly plans to appeal the ruling.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of how the U.S. military has been "imposing costs" on ransomware groups. Also featured: a twist in the case of the Missouri governor vs. an alleged "hacker," and CyberTheory's Steve King on "why Zero Trust?"
Ifigeneia Lella, cybersecurity officer at ENISA describes findings from the agency's Threat Landscape 2021 report, which assesses the motives, capabilities, targeting and evolution of four different types of threat actors: state-sponsored, cybercrime actors, hacker-for-hire actors and hacktivists.
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