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"Supply chain attacks and critical infrastructure."

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Supply Chain Attacks and Critical Infrastructure: How CISA Helps Secure a Nation's Crown Jewels Critical infrastructure attacks are a preferred target for cyber criminals. Here's why and what's being done to protect them. What is Critical Infrastructure and Why is It Attacked? Critical infrastructure is the physical and digital assets, systems and networks that are vital to national security, the economy, public health, or safety. It can be government- or privately-owned. According to ... Read More

FBI Cracks Down on Genesis Market: 119 Arrested in Cybercrime Crackdown A coordinated international law enforcement operation has dismantled Genesis Market, an illegal online marketplace that specialized in the sale of stolen credentials associated with email, bank accounts, and social media platforms. Coinciding with the infrastructure seizure, the major crackdown, which involved authorities from 17 countries, culminated in 119 arrests and 208 property searches ... Read More

ICS Village & GRIMM Cyber Team Up for Interactive CyPhy™ Experience at RSAC GRIMM's interactive approach to learning, coupled with ICS Village's mission for awareness, delivers a compelling experience using real IT and industrial equipment. RSAC attendees can visit our ICS sandbox and explore our CyberTown virtual ... Read More

Google Mandates Android Apps to Offer Easy Account Deletion In-App and Online Google is enacting a new data deletion policy for Android apps that allow account creation to also offer users with a setting to delete their accounts in an attempt to provide more transparency and control over their data. "For apps that enable app account creation, developers will soon need to provide an option to initiate account and data deletion from within the app and online," ... Read More

CryptoClippy: New Clipper Malware Targeting Portuguese Cryptocurrency Users Portuguese users are being targeted by a new malware codenamed CryptoClippy that's capable of stealing cryptocurrency as part of a malvertising campaign. The activity leverages SEO poisoning techniques to entice users searching for "WhatsApp web" to rogue domains hosting the malware, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in a new report published today.  CryptoClippy, a C-based executable, is a ... Read More

Hackers Using Self-Extracting Archives Exploit for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks An unknown threat actor used a malicious self-extracting archive (SFX) file in an attempt to establish persistent backdoor access to a victim's environment, new findings from CrowdStrike show. SFX files are capable of extracting the data contained within them without the need for dedicated software to display the file contents. It achieves this by including a decompressor stub, a piece of ... Read More

Google TAG Warns of North Korean-linked ARCHIPELAGO Cyberattacks A North Korean government-backed threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea and the U.S. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is tracking the cluster under the name ARCHIPELAGO, which it said is a subset of another threat group tracked by Mandiant under the name APT43. The tech ... Read More

Protect Your Company: Ransomware Prevention Made Easy Every year hundreds of millions of malware attacks occur worldwide, and every year businesses deal with the impact of viruses, worms, keyloggers, and ransomware. Malware is a pernicious threat and the biggest driver for businesses to look for cybersecurity solutions.  Naturally, businesses want to find products that will stop malware in its tracks, and so they search for solutions to do ... Read More

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