In July, thousands of Americans started to complain about unsolicited packages of seeds mailed from China. And despite not knowing exactly what the seeds were, and holding suspicions that something nefarious was afoot, many recipients planted them. The parallels between the mystery seeds and phishing attacks are unmistakable and can serve as a cautionary tale…
China announced a comprehensive global data security program Tuesday, proposing many of the same international norms agreed upon by Western nations already, while protecting China’s interest in balkanizing the internet. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed the “Global Data Security Initiative” in a statement translated here by the New America think tank. According…
Facebook will give third-party vendors 21 days to respond to the social media giant after divulging a vulnerability, and 90 days to make reasonable efforts to mitigate the vulnerability.
Managed service providers are being targeted with malware that uses a complex mixture of strategies to go unnoticed, according to Huntress Labs. The attack is more complex than originally thought, according to a followup report Wednesday on the malware first detailed in June. Huntress Labs initially explained the malware they discovered on two MSPs as…
Akamai announced Wednesday early results of a partnership with the Center for Internet Security and the Department of Homeland Security to offer free malicious domain blocking and reporting services to state, local, tribal and territorial governments. After five weeks of offering the service, with just under 350 sign-ups, the MDBR service blocked roughly 10 million…
As employees work beyond an office network, CISOs may lose a lot of the critical visibility into network traffic.
According to a new Crowdstrike report, an actor associated with a contractor for the Iranian intelligence service known as “Pioneer Kitten” advertised selling access to servers on an underground forum in July. Pioneer Kitten, also tracked by cybersecurity firms as Fox Kitten and Parasite, has been active since 2017 with a broad array of interests.…
The threat of big-money bribery might just affect a company’s threat model and the defense needed to stop those threats.
The Justice Department’s extradition of Deborah Mensah from Ghana for her alleged participation in a multimillion-dollar business email compromise (BEC) scheme marks the latest move in a flurry of global activity to stop increasingly prevalent email scams. Since 2018, the department has participated in two massive international operations netting nearly 370 arrests, and the FBI…
The new strategy document is short on details, but here are some areas that the market can expect to take center stage once Trump does announce a detailed policy.
