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Russia's federal bank, the Bank of Russia, issued sweeping recommendations to restrict the local cryptocurrency ecosystem. With a substantial portion of the cybercriminal economy operating out of Russia, using cryptocurrency to transfer wealth, an unintended side effect of such laws may be to eliminate some of the comfort ransomware gangs have found in the region.

Few details the circumstances of the departures were made available by Twitter, but security analysts considered it a somewhat surprising development because Zatko and Sethi had only been on the job since late 2020 — not long after Twitter’s widely reported hack that compromised the accounts of many celebrities, including then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Some speculated that Agrawal was facing pressure from investors to do more about security.

This week’s breach roundup is led by Memorial Health System’s confirmation that patient data was possibly stolen during a ransomware attack that led to care disruptions in August.

An IRS plan to use ID.me and facial recognition software would represent "a massive expansion" of the federal government's (long and controversial) biometric surveillance record and carries real privacy and cybersecurity concerns, experts say.

As all industries continue to struggle with Log4j remediation, HHS HC3 is urging the healthcare sector to assume systems have been compromised and to review new vulnerability guidance.

A law originally designed to push IT modernization in the federal government should be used to evaluate how agencies are meeting a number of government-wide cybersecurity goals, from modernization and supply chain threats to implementing post-quantum encryption protocols, experts told Congress.

Cynerio’s healthcare IoT and medical device report reveals the most common vulnerabilities in the healthcare and hospital environments, stressing the need for network segmentation.

As financial fraud continues to climb, experts say that this year will force the industry to change its approach on many security fronts, especially authentication.