Perera is editorial director for news at Information Security Media Group. He previously covered privacy and data security for outlets including MLex and Politico.
Cobalt maker Fortra, Microsoft and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center obtained a U.S. federal court order redirecting into sinkhole servers the internet traffic from Cobalt Strike-infected computers sent to command-and-control centers controlled by bad actors.
U.S. federal prosecutors say an Estonian man was prepared violate U.S. export regulations by selling a license for penetration testing software to a Russian individual. Andrey Shevlyakov has been on a U.S. blacklist known as the Entity List since 2012.
The FBI and other national police are touting an operation that dismantled Genesis Market, a marketplace used by ransomware hackers and bank thieves to gain ongoing access to victims' computers. Genesis Market since 2018 offered access to more than 1.5 million compromised computers around the world.
The U.S. government limited its use of advanced surveillance software such as Pegasus through an executive order prohibiting agencies from buying licenses for spyware used by foreign governments to spy on dissidents. The order does not outright stop the government from purchasing spyware.
The alleged administrator of criminal online forum BreachForums may have thought he took steps to hide his real identity, but instead he left a trail of digital breadcrumbs that led to his arrest and prosecution, shows information unsealed in federal court.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is asking for public comment on cloud computing provider business and security practices. The top three providers - AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud - account for approximately two-thirds of worldwide cloud spending, which reached nearly $250 billion in 2022.
Federal regulators initiated a probe of social media after accusing firms such as Facebook of presiding over a surge in advertising fraud including ads for sham healthcare products. Sham ads "can pose real dangers," including by spreading health disinformation, said Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a slew of new cybersecurity rules for the companies underpinning the U.S. stock market, the latest sign of increasing unhappiness among Biden administration officials about the private sector's management of digital risk.
An overview of the White House's spending blueprint for the coming federal fiscal year shows big proposed increases for cybersecurity. CISA would receive $145 million more that current amounts. Ukraine would receive hundreds of millions to counter "Russian malign influence" including in cyberspace.
Hackers have been selling data stolen from an online health insurance marketplace used by members of Congress and residents of Washington, D.C. The cause, size and scope of the breach are still unknown. The data pertains to "numerous" lawmakers as well as their spouses, dependents and employees.
A dozen U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced legislation backed by the White House charging the federal government with initiating a process to systematically block foreign technology from reaching the domestic market when the tech poses a national security threat.
Cybersecurity will take its place alongside chemical contaminant removal as an element the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says public water systems must mitigate. "Cyberattacks that are targeting water systems are real and a significant threat," said an EPA official.
Internet domain registrar GoDaddy says it is the victim of a yearslong hacking campaign that installed malware on internal systems and obtained source code. The hackers' "apparent goal is to infect websites and servers with malware for phishing campaigns, malware distribution," the company says.
The FBI is investigating a hack of its computer network. “This is an isolated incident that has been contained. As this is an ongoing investigation the FBI does not have further comment to provide at this time," the bureau said in a statement provided to Information Security Media Group.
Chris Inglis, head of the Office of the National Cyber Director in the White House, stepped down from the position. The widely anticipated move comes as the Biden administration finalizes a national cyberspace strategy expected to call for more regulation and the disruption of malicious actors.
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