Cybersecurity

US Federal Budget Proposes $27.5B for Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Spending , Government , Industry Specific Budget Proposes Incremental Increases, Not Leaps, But Small Budget Cut for CISA David Perera (@daveperera) • March 11, 2024     U.S. federal cybersecurity spending is set for billion dollar increases. (Image: Shutterstock) The Biden administration doesn’t propose huge leaps in cybersecurity funding in an annual spending blueprint […]

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Malware Campaign Exploits Popup Builder WordPress Plugin to Infect 3,900+ Sites

Mar 12, 2024NewsroomWordPress / Website Security A new malware campaign is leveraging a high-severity security flaw in the Popup Builder plugin for WordPress to inject malicious JavaScript code. According to Sucuri, the campaign has infected more than 3,900 sites over the past three weeks. “These attacks are orchestrated from domains less than a month old, […]

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British authorities have never detected a breach of ransomware sanctions — but is that good or bad news?

The agency responsible for monitoring financial sanctions in Britain has never detected an illicit payment to an entity embargoed under the country’s counter-ransomware regime, according to information obtained by Recorded Future News. The sanctions regime explicitly prohibits victims from making any extortion payments to the 29 individuals and 5 entities listed under the United Kingdom’s […]

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Roku cancels unauthorized subscriptions and provides refunds for 15k breached accounts

Roku said it canceled unauthorized subscriptions and refunded more than 15,000 accounts after discovering what they called “suspicious activity.” The streaming TV giant — which reported $3.4 billion in revenue last year — said that from the end of December to the end of February, hackers used username and password combinations breached from other services […]

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Ransomware attacks are hitting critical infrastructure more often, FBI says

Dive Brief: More than 2 in 5 ransomware attacks reported to the FBI in 2023 targeted organizations in a critical infrastructure sector, the agency said Thursday in its annual Internet Crime Report. Of the 2,825 ransomware attacks reported to the FBI last year, 1,193 hit critical infrastructure organizations. The proportion of ransomware attacks hitting critical […]

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South Korean Citizen Detained in Russia on Cyber Espionage Charges

Mar 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat Russia has detained a South Korean national for the first time on cyber espionage charges and transferred from Vladivostok to Moscow for further investigation. The development was first reported by Russian news agency TASS. “During the investigation of an espionage case, a South Korean citizen Baek Won-soon was identified […]