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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that it has observed the notorious cybercrime group Scattered Spider broadening its targeting footprint to strike the airline sector
State Moves to Restructure Cyber Bureau and Issue Mass Layoffs Despite Court OrderCurrent and recent former Department of State staffers told Information Security Media Group the agency is preparing to implement layoffs and begin a reorganization despite a San Francisco federal district court order blocking across-the-board layoffs at federal agencies.
Alerts Come on the Heels of Recent Attacks on InsurersU.S. federal authorities are warning the public and healthcare sector entities of email and fax phishing scams by fraudsters seeking to steal personal information about patients or payments. The warnings come as three large U.S. insurers continue to recover from recent cyberattacks.
Starting June 9, 2025, Russian internet service providers (ISPs) have begun throttling access to websites and services protected by Cloudflare, an American internet giant. [...]
Cyber operations have become critical to national security, but the United States has fallen behind in one significant area — exploit production — while China has built up a significant lead.
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, is notifying over 2.2 million individuals that their personal, financial, and health information was stolen in a November ransomware attack that impacted its U.S. systems. [...]
American grocery wholesale giant United Natural Foods (UNFI) reports that it has restored its core systems and brought online the electronic ordering and invoicing systems affected by a cyberattack. [...]
Hawaiian Airlines, the tenth-largest commercial airline in the United States, is investigating a cyberattack that has disrupted access to some of its systems. [...]
Also, O Canada, Oh Brother and More Probable Chinese HackingThis week, ransomware kills, Salt Typhoon hit Canada, Russian backdoors, SAP and Citrix patches, China hackers in the oil and energy sector. Brother printers have an unfixable flaw. Ransomware hit a U.S. dairy cooperative. Hackers in Albania and Oxford. European lawmakers heard cybersecurity advice.
CIO Greg Barbaccia's Memo Targets Churn, Burnout, Fragmented CultureWhen Gregory Barbaccia took the job as the U.S. federal CIO in January 2025, he became the sixth person to hold the position in eight years. Five months into his tenure, he laid out 16 operating principles in the latest attempt to stabilize leadership churn.
A Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to hacking multiple organizations to advertise his cybersecurity services, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added three security flaws, each impacting AMI MegaRAC, D-Link DIR-859 router, and Fortinet FortiOS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation
Popular messaging platform WhatsApp has added a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature that leverages its in-house solution Meta AI to summarize unread messages in chats
A British national known online as "IntelBroker" has been charged by the U.S. for stealing and selling sensitive data from dozens of victims, causing an estimated $25 million in damages. [...]
'IntelBroker' Faces Four-Count Indictment in Manhattan Federal CourtA hacker known online as "IntelBroker" and who has a history of spilling sensitive information faces a four-count criminal indictment in the United States after French police arrested him in February. IntelBroker's true identity is British national Kai West, U.S. federal Manhattan prosecutors said.
Geopolitical Conflict Involving Iran, Israel, US Ripe for Attacks on SectorGovernment authorities are warning of increased risk of Iranian cyber and related threats against healthcare and public health sector organizations - including ransomware, distributed denial-of-service and other attacks related to that nation's escalated conflicts with Israel and the U.S.
The United States Embassy in India has announced that applicants for F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas should make their social media accounts public
America's largest steel producer initially disclosed the breach in May and took potentially affected systems offline to investigation the intrusion and contain any malicious activity.
The U.S. House of Representatives has banned the installation and use of WhatsApp on government-issued devices belonging to congressional staff, citing concerns over how the app encrypts and secures data. [...]
Proxies Prioritize Psychological Effects Over Real Life Effects in CyberspaceWarnings about Iranian hacking following the United States' Saturday bombing of Iranian nuclear weapon development sites ratcheted sharply upward even after weeks of admonitions that Iran could respond to ongoing missile strikes with virtual assaults.