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The Biden administration outlined its plans to ensure responsible AI development — cyber-risk is a core element.
Pot, meet kettle, both containing weak sauce The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center of China and local infosec outfit 360 Total Security have conducted an investigation called "The Matrix" that found the CIA conducts offensive cyber ops, and labelled the United States an "Empire of Hacking".…
The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground's most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. U.S. authorities say 43-year-old Denis Kulkov's card-checking service made him at least $18 million, which he used to buy a Ferrari, Land Rover, and other luxury items.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today the indictment of Russian citizen Denis Gennadievich Kulkov, suspected of running a stolen credit card checking operation that generated tens of millions in revenue. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory about a critical flaw affecting ME RTU remote terminal units
A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network's chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016.
US tells criminals it 'will find you' and has a particular set of skills In an international operation 288 people have been arrested across the US, Europe and South America after allegedly selling opioids on the now-shuttered Monopoly Market dark web drug trafficking marketplace, according to US and European law enforcement.…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation
With new cybersecurity laws and regulations rolling out, the best way to maintain broad compliance is to align with the most stringent frameworks. In the U.S., that means taking a ‘federal first’ approach—conforming to the highest security requirements of the United States federal government.