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 […]
This decision came after offers to purchase Carbon Black fell short of expectations, resulting in Broadcom’s strategic shift to retain the company and merge it with Symantec.
The leaked data claimed to be from Okta includes user IDs, full names, company names, office addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, positions/roles, and other information.
Mar 12, 2024NewsroomWordPress / 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The British Library ransomware attack was likely caused by the compromise of third-party credentials coupled with no multifactor authentication (MFA) in place to stop the attackers, despite previous warnings about these risks. This is according to a British Library report that sheds new light on the October 2023 attack, which shut down digital services and […]
Mar 12, 2024NewsroomCyber 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 […]