The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed state government organization's network environment was compromised via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. "This allowed the threat actor to successfully authenticate to an internal virtual private network (VPN) access point," the agency said in a joint advisory published 15 February 2024 alongside the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). "The threat actor
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The US State Department announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the identification or location of key members of the Hive ransomware gang. The FBI disrupted the gang’s operations almost exactly one year ago, shutting the ransomware group’s infrastructure after a seven-month operation.
Last week, the State Department said that in addition to the $10 million for information on those holding key leadership positions in the gang, they are offering $5 million “for information leadi
The US State Department said the Conti strain of ransomware was the most-costly in terms of payments made by victims as of January 2022. Conti, a Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS program, is one of the most notorious ransomware groups and has been responsible for infecting hundreds of servers with malware to gain corporate data or digital damage systems, essentially spreading misery to individuals and hospitals, businesses, government agencies and more all over the world.
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The U.S. Department of State will create a Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, led by a Senate-confirmed ambassador-at-large, to advance its cybersecurity diplomacy efforts, according to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The move is a response to a challenging global threat landscape including ransomware attacks believed to be regularly carried out from Russian soil.
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Blinken formally announced the office whi
A recent bipartisan report by the US Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee shows that key government agencies have made little progress in terms of cybersecurity over the past two years. A report published in 2019 found that eight federal agencies failed to meet even the basic cybersecurity standards and protocols. Two years later, cybersecurity at those agencies was again analyzed and the findings are as described in the new report “stark.”
The new report, titled “Feder
