Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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The Loper Bright Decision: How it Impacts Cybersecurity Law

The Loper Bright decision has yielded impactful results: the Supreme Court has overturned forty years of administrative law, leading to potential litigation over the interpretation of ambiguous laws previously decided by federal agencies. This article explores key questions for cybersecurity professionals and leaders as we enter a more contentious period of cybersecurity law. Background What is

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US Releases Russian Hackers and Spies as Part of Prisoner Swap

The United States, along with Germany and Slovenia, participated in a historic prisoner exchange with Russia, releasing hackers, spies, and an assassin. The swap took place at an airport in Ankara, Turkey.

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Security Bypass Vulnerability Exposed in Rockwell Automation Logix Controllers

A vulnerability in Rockwell Automation's Logix controllers, CVE-2024-6242, poses a security risk to industrial automation systems worldwide by allowing unauthorized access to PLCs.

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Enhancing Incident Response Readiness with Wazuh

Incident response is a structured approach to managing and addressing security breaches or cyber-attacks. Security teams must overcome challenges such as timely detection, comprehensive data collection, and coordinated actions to enhance readiness. Improving these areas ensures a swift and effective response, minimizing damage and restoring normal operations quickly. Challenges in incident

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Tech Support Scam Ring Leader Gets Seven Years in Prison, $6M Fine

A tech support fraud leader was sentenced to seven years in prison for scamming over 6,500 victims and making $6 million. The operation targeted elderly victims in the U.S. and Canada by showing fake malware infections on their computers.

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Russian Threat Actors Hijacked Over 30,000 Domains in Sitting Ducks Attacks

This attack method takes advantage of vulnerabilities at the registrar level and lax ownership verification at DNS providers. Research has shown that over a million domains could be vulnerable to this type of attack daily.

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Cybersecurity Innovator Clutch Security Nets $8.5m in Funding Led by Lightspeed

Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm, Clutch Security, has secured $8.5m in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Merlin Ventures, Cyber Club London, and other investors like Nir Polak, Shlomo Kramer, and Armon Dadgar.

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Ongoing DEV#POPPER Malware Campaign Expands Targeting

The attackers, posing as interviewers, urge candidates to download a ZIP file containing malware. The campaign has targeted victims in South Korea, North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

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Cisco Investments Backs Anti-Ransomware Firm Halcyon

Cisco Investments has invested in Halcyon, an anti-ransomware company, to enhance its platform and reduce ransomware risks to zero. The investment amount remains undisclosed, but Halcyon has raised a total of $90 million so far.

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New Tech, Personnel Will Help CISA with Coming Rush of Cyber Incident Reports

The CISA is working to comply with the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022, requiring critical infrastructure providers to report cybersecurity incidents and ransomware attacks within specific timeframes.

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New NSA AI-powered Tool Would Help Industry Optimize Cyber Defense Testing

The Autonomous Penetration Testing platform would replace much of the laborious, manual process of such testing, where organizations use vulnerability scanning tools and other methods to measure the robustness of their cyberdefenses against hackers

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Threat Actor Abuses Trial Feature for Cloudflare Tunnels to Deliver RATs

Hackers are exploiting the free TryCloudflare service to distribute remote access trojans (RATs) like AsyncRAT, GuLoader, and Remcos RAT. This activity was first detected in February and has been linked to campaigns targeting various industries.

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Critical Infrastructure Group Launches Effort to Aid Federal Agencies’ Cyber Defenses

The Center for Federal Civilian Executive Branch Resilience, launched by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, aims to enhance standards and procedures for protecting government agencies from cybercriminals and nation-state hackers.

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Increased Botnet Activity Against Apache OFBiz Exploiting CVE-2024-32113

The open-source ERP framework OFBiz is being targeted by the Mirai botnet due to a critical directory traversal vulnerability that allows for remote command execution. This vulnerability was patched in May for versions before 18.12.13.

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Fighting Ursa Luring Targets With Car for Sale

APT28, a Russia-linked threat actor (also known as Fighting Ursa, Fancy Bear, and Sofacy), has been identified in a campaign using a car sale phishing lure to deliver the HeadLace Windows backdoor to target diplomats since March 2024.

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Newly Identified BITSLOTH Backdoor Uses Novel C2 Communication Channel

A new Windows backdoor named BITSLOTH has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers. This malware exploits the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) for stealthy communication, making it difficult to detect.

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FBI Warns of Scammers Posing as Crypto Exchange Employees

These fraudsters contact victims through phone calls or messages, posing as representatives of legitimate crypto exchanges, and create a sense of urgency by claiming security issues or hack attempts on the victims' accounts.

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Airlines are Flying Blind on Third-Party Risks

Airlines are facing challenges with third-party risks in their supply chain. Recent revelations regarding risks in Boeing's supply chain have emphasized the importance of measuring and mitigating these risks, according to SecurityScorecard.

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Germany Summons Chinese Ambassador Over Cyberattack on Cartography Agency

Germany has summoned the Chinese ambassador over a cyberattack by a Beijing-backed threat actor on a cartography agency. The attack, aimed at espionage, was carried out at the end of 2021.

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US Senate Panel Advances Cyber Regulatory Harmonization Bill

The Streamlining Federal Cybersecurity Regulations Act, led by senators Gary Peters and James Lankford, would create an interagency group to synchronize U.S. cyber regulatory regimes and establish a pilot program for testing new frameworks.