Collaborate Disseminate
A U.N. cybercrime treaty could give global governments new — and what many human rights defenders call worrisome — powers to prosecute cybercrimes.
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2021 accounts for more than 40% of the zero-day exploits undertaken in the last decade.
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The agricultural sector has been hit by a rising number of costly ransomware attacks.
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Data brokers selling information about U.S military personnel could pose a national security risk.
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The U.S. Cyber Command unfunded priorities wish list includes $168 million to enhance the Cyber Mission Force, a group conducting offensive and defensive cyber operations.
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The ZingoStealer information stealer identified by Cisco Talos threat analysts can exfiltrate credentials and steal cryptocurrency wallet information.
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The Department of Justice and FBI announced they used remote access technology to shut down a Sandworm botnet.
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The former president said the U.S. and other democracies helped disinformation flourish by growing complacent.
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U.S. Cyber Command General Paul Nakasone told senators that scaling back his organization’s cyber ops authorities would be damaging to its mission.
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Cybersecurity and homeland security experts are split on the wisdom of scaling back broad authorities that DOD has to launch cyber operations.
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