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Cybersecurity Agency Says 'No Operational Impact'The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency apparently had a good reason to urge federal agencies into resetting vulnerable Ivanti VPN devices: Hackers breached two gateways used by CISA, forcing the agency to yank them offline. The agency "immediately took offline" the impacted VPNs.
UnitedHealth Group Provides IT Restoration Timeline; AMA Is Not ImpressedUnitedHealth Group expects some key IT systems and services affected by the recent cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit to regain functionality over the next week to 10 days. Certain pharmacy services are already restored. But the American Medical Association is not impressed.
Also: Palo Alto Networks' Strategy Pivot; Massive Change Healthcare CyberattackIn the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the cyberattack that's sending shock waves through the U.S. healthcare sector, Palo Alto's strategic pivot and its far-reaching implications for the industry, and new developments in tech and journalism at Information Security Media Group.
NSTAC Report Calls for Federal Cybersecurity Tax Deductions and Financial GrantsThe National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee is recommending the administration work to establish financial incentives, such as tax deductions and federal grants, for critical infrastructure owners and operators that implement enhanced cybersecurity standards.
US President Urges Congress to Harness AI While Protecting 'From Its Peril'U.S. President Joe Biden used part of his highly anticipated State of the Union address on Thursday night to call on lawmakers to pass bipartisan privacy legislation and to harness the powers of artificial intelligence while protecting the nation "from its peril."
If you live in the United States, the data broker Radaris likely knows a great deal about you, and they are happy to sell what they know to anyone. But how much do we know about Radaris? Publicly available data indicates that in addition to running a dizzying array of people-search websites, the co-founders of Radaris operate multiple Russian-language dating services and affiliate programs. It also appears many of their businesses have ties to a California marketing firm that works with a Russian state-run media conglomerate currently sanctioned by the U.S. government.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation
US President Urges Congress to Harness AI While Protecting ‘From its Peril’U.S. President Joe Biden used part of his highly-anticipated State of the Union address on Thursday night to call on lawmakers to pass bipartisan privacy legislation, and to harness the powers of artificial intelligence while protecting the nation "from its peril."
US Cyber Agency Aiming to Promote Information Sharing with Open Source CommunityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency hopes to expand voluntary information sharing between the federal government and open-source software operators with a series of actions the agency announced following a two-day open-source security summit held at its Virginia headquarters.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the unsealing of an indictment against Linwei (Leon) Ding, 38, a former software engineer at Google, suspected of stealing Google AI trade secrets for Chinese companies. [...]
FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2023 Internet Crime Report, which recorded a 22% increase in reported losses compared to 2022, amounting to a record of $12.5 billion. [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident of allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies
The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok – its most valuable property – or see it banned in the US.…
Attack on Optum's IT Services Unit Could Be the Worst One to Hit Healthcare SectorAs the fallout continues in the Change Healthcare IT outage, the U.S. healthcare ecosystem is anticipating the next bombs to drop in what's shaping up to be the worst cyberattack the sector has experienced so far. What should entities be considering as they push forward in the recovery?
Delta-v Led Round to Enhance Critical Infrastructure Security, Extend Runway to IPOYaniv Vardi shares how $100 million of strategic growth financing from Delta-v Capital will empower Claroty to secure critical infrastructure across verticals such as the public sector and transportation and geographies including the United States and Japan, setting the stage for an IPO.
The private information of more than 28,000 people may have been accessed by unauthorized actors, thanks to a cyber incident at service provider Infosys McCamish — the same third party recently responsible for the Bank of America breach.
A gang of hackers specialized in business email compromise (BEC) attacks and tracked as TA4903 has been impersonating various U.S. government entities to lure targets into opening malicious files carrying links to fake bidding processes. [...]
The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Alliance for their role in “developing, operating, and distributing” commercial spyware designed to target government officials, journalists, and policy experts in the country
There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. "ALPHV") as the company struggles to bring services back online amid a cyberattack that has disrupted prescription drug services nationwide for weeks. However, the cybercriminal who claims to have given BlackCat access to Change's network says the crime gang cheated them out of their share of the ransom, and that they still have the sensitive data that Change reportedly paid the group to destroy. Meanwhile, the affiliate's disclosure appears to have prompted BlackCat to cease operations entirely.
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on two individuals and five entities linked to the development and distribution of the Predator commercial spyware used to target Americans, including government officials and journalists. [...]