Collaborate Disseminate
Agency red-teamers got initial access to both organizations they tested, but one quickly isolated and shut down the attempts from going further.
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It’s a follow-up to an indictment the Justice Department unsealed last week against people affiliated with the Mabna Institute.
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Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Greg Casar want a GAO probe on the government’s use of spyware and other sophisticated hacking tools and authorities.
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The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act has won a big House vote and could be on the fast track in the Senate — and supporters say it could help fight cybercrime.
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The agencies said the hackers are taking aim at Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers in what could be a first.
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The superseding indictment adds defendants and allegations against the Iranian firm accused of a massive cybertheft campaign against foreign universities and others.
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The updated warning from the FBI, CISA and HHS draws on a year’s worth of investigations to detail how the group gains initial access and what it does afterward.
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The “philosophical shift” that the memo authorizes raises legal, practical and moral questions, experts say.
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Israeli cyber firm Dream said the framework adapted mid-operation, corrected its mistakes and expanded as it went along.
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The ransomware-as-a-service outfit has gone after a range of critical infrastructure sectors across the globe.
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