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They cited progress with structures like the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.
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The White House has reached consensus between State and Defense on how to pare back NSPM-13’s precedent-setting delegation of authority to the DOD.
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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 botnet was being assembled by Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, the GRU, Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference.
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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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The Biden administration is considering revising the Trump-era policy which gave broad cyber authorities to the Department of Defense and Cyber Command.
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China’s march toward chip independence is of “great concern” and could have “broader impacts,” he said. It’s an issue that dovetails with the Russia-Ukraine war.
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U.S. and U.K. government agencies called out Iranian government-affiliated hackers Thursday, accusing them of being behind cyber-espionage targeting the defense, local government, oil and natural gas and telecommunications sectors across the globe. The joint alert points a finger at MuddyWater, which the U.S. government for the first time last month attributed directly to Tehran. In the latest warning, the government agencies said that they have observed MuddyWater on the move in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America since 2018. “MuddyWater actors are positioned both to provide stolen data and accesses to the Iranian government and to share these with other malicious cyber actors,” reads the alert. The bulletin is the joint work of the the FBI, Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the U.S. Cyber Command Cyber National Mission Force and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. MuddyWater has a long history of allegedly spying on primarily […]
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U.S. Cyber Command posted more than a dozen malware samples to a public repository Wednesday, saying that if network administrators see two or more of these samples on their systems, they may have been targeted by Iranian military hackers. The samples, posted to VirusTotal early Wednesday afternoon, represent various “open-source tools Iranian intelligence actors are using in networks around the world,” the military agency said in a statement. It’s Cyber Command’s first VirusTotal upload in nine months, according the the agency’s page on the site. Referring to the actors as “MuddyWater” — the moniker applied to some suspected Iranian government hacking activities dating back to at least 2015 — Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force shared the samples “to better enable defense” against the attackers. Wednesday’s statement refers to MuddyWater as “a subordinate element” within the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), an arm of the security apparatus focused on […]
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