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North Korean hacking group makes waves to gain Mandiant, FBI spotlight

The newly designated APT45 pursues military intelligence but has been expanding its targets, Mandiant says.

By Tim Starks

The original stock picture (left) and an AI fake (right) used by a North Korean threat actor who posed as a U.S.-based software engineer and was hired by the cyber firm KnowBe4. (Photo credit: KnowBe4)

Cyber firm KnowBe4 hired a fake IT worker from North Korea

Threats

By Matt Bracken

This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of “CrowdStrike” cybersecurity technology company in Paris on July 19, 2024, amid massive global IT outage. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)

Low-level cybercriminals are pouncing on CrowdStrike-connected outage

Cybercrime

By AJ Vicens

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Cyberattacks may follow CrowdStrike outage, warns MS-ISAC

By Colin Wood Sophia Fox-Sowell Keely Quinlan
Simple ‘FrostyGoop’ malware responsible for turning off Ukrainians’ heat in January attack

By Christian Vasquez
Police nab 17-year-old linked to group behind MGM Resorts cyberattack

By AJ Vicens
FCC, Tracfone Wireless reach $16M cyber and privacy settlement

By Tim Starks
Treasury sanctions Russian hackers that breached US water utilities

By Christian Vasquez

How Troy Hunt knows if you’ve been hacked and Washington tries to understand AI

Why pig butchering is the worst kind of online scam

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Sanctioned and exposed, Predator spyware maker group has gone awfully quiet

Sanctions, newspaper investigations and reports exposing the Intellexa alliance’s infrastructure all might have led to its diminished state.

By Tim Starks

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Proposed data broker regulations draw industry pushback on anonymized data exceptions, bulk thresholds

By Tim Starks

The front of the U.S. Supreme Court building is seen after sunset on June 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Cybersecurity regulations face ‘uphill battle’ after Chevron ruling

By Derek B. Johnson

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US businesses struggle to obtain cyber insurance, lawmakers are told

By Christian Vasquez

Rethinking democracy for the age of AI

By Bruce Schneier

When it comes to online scams, ‘ChatGPT is the new crypto’

By AJ Vicens

The pressing threat of Chinese-made drones flying above U.S. critical infrastructure

By Brian Harrell Travis Moran

The quantum computing threat is real. Now we need to act.

By Susan M. Gordon John Richardson Mike Rogers

House Republican sounds the alarm on threats to food and agriculture sector

By Christian Vasquez

The missed opportunities in White House’s critical infrastructure directive

By Christian Vasquez

Insights

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Want to scale cyber defenders? Focus on AI-enabled security and organization-wide training

By Jay Bhalodia

Data-driven decision-making: The power of enhanced event logging

By Casey Kahsen

Operationalizing zero trust: A practical guide for modern federal agencies

By Scoop News Group

Meeting zero-trust mandates with strategic partnerships

By Scoop News Group

Videos

AWS and CrowdStrike leaders discuss zero trust implementation and the path ahead

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Taking a holistic approach to cybersecurity

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Splunk’s Kristi Chiarenza says agencies face time and resource hurdles in zero-trust journey

By Scoop News Group

RGS’ Brandon Gulla on building a collaborative framework for zero trust

By Scoop News Group

Podcasts

Dewey Murdick on enabling principles for AI governance; a landmark breach at AT&T

By CyberScoop Staff

Allan Liska on why it’s time to ban ransomware payments; Russian info ops

By CyberScoop Staff

Selena Larson on e-crime matching nation state hackers; Disinfo before the Supreme Court

By CyberScoop Staff

Protecting teens against sextortion; threats to election workers

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Keeping Ukraine’s grid up and running amid war; Snowflake customers under attack

By CyberScoop Staff

Josh Harguess on AI red-teaming; an Israeli info op targets the U.S.

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The Latest

CrowdStrike — CrowdStrike CEO and co-founder George Kurtz (CrowdStrike)

Many state, city government services disrupted by faulty CrowdStrike update

CrowdStrike — CrowdStrike at the 2020 RSA Conference in San Francisco. (Greg Otto / Scoop News Group)

Federal government agencies affected by worldwide IT outage

A screen displays an announcement about possible travel delays due to a global IT outage at Gatwick Airport on July 19, 2024, in Crawley, United Kingdom. Businesses, travel companies and Microsoft users across the globe were among those affected by the tech outage. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

CrowdStrike Falcon flaw sends Windows computers into chaos worldwide

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CISA publishes resilience-planning playbook for critical infrastructure

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Judge dismisses much of SEC suit against SolarWinds over cybersecurity disclosures

In this handout image provided by CYBERUK, Harry Coker, National Cyber Director speaks during the CYBERUK 2024 at Birmingham ICC Arena on May 14 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Matthew Horwood for CYBERUK via Getty Images)

Coker’s top priorities: Federal cohesion, cyber workforce, other ‘hard problems’

Blue pipes going to an oil refinery. (Getty Images)

Ransomware attacks are hitting energy, oil and gas sectors especially hard, report finds

The US Treasury Department building is seen in Washington, DC, January 19, 2023. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Treasury group unveils guidance for financial sector on cloud adoption

This photograph taken in Lyon, eastern France, on September 5, 2023 shows the entrance of the International Criminal Police Organization headquarters, known as Interpol. (Photo by OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE/AFP via Getty Images)

300 arrests made in crackdown of West African cyber fraud group

Car dealership office. (Fahroni, iStock/Getty Images Plus)

CDK hack shows SEC disclosure standards are unsettled

Jeep vehicles are delivered to a dealership on June 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. A cyber attack on CDK Global, a software provider that helps dealerships manage sales and service, has crippled the workflow at approximately 15,000 dealerships across the United States and Canada. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Wallets tied to CDK ransom group received $25 million two days after attack

A visitor walks past the telecommunications giant AT&T’s logo at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 27, 2023. (Photo by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)

Phone, text message records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers stolen

Digital money transaction. (Getty Images)

White House wants to boost cyber funds for fiscal 2026

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