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Foreign Adversaries Increasingly See Campaigns as Prime for Hacking, Official SaysThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for cyber, infrastructure, risk and resilience is sounding the alarm over hackers targeting political campaigns ahead of the 2024 elections, warning that campaigns could be left vulnerable if they fail to practice basic cyber hygiene.

HHS Says Tried-and-True Hacker Methods Can Compromise Patient Data, SafetyFederal regulators are sounding an alarm to warn healthcare sector entities of cyberattacks involving a tried-and-true hacking method - credential harvesting, which can be used to compromise patient data, disrupt healthcare operations and enable other crimes.

Amid COVID-19 Ransomware Woes, Sanaz Yashar's Frustration Sparked Zafran's BirthFaced with relentless cyberattacks and the shortcomings of existing defenses, Sanaz Yashar embarked on a journey to create a security risk and mitigation platform, transforming frustration into startup Zafran, which emerged from stealth Thursday with more than $30 million in funding.

US Government Offers $10M Bounty to Track Down Leadership of BlackCat Crime GroupUnitedHealth Group has admitted data was "taken" in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare and has just started analyzing the types of personal, financial and health information potentially compromised. The U.S. is offering a $10 million bounty for BlackCat, which claims to have launched the attack.

Insights from recent cyberattacks where weak authentication measures were circumventedInsights from recent cyberattacks where weak authentication measures were circumvented

Feds are offering cash for information to help them crack down on the ransomware-as-a-service group's cyberattacks against US critical infrastructure.

After all, it's only about keeping the essentials on – no rush America's long-awaited cyber attack reporting rules for critical infrastructure operators are inching closer to implementation, after the Feds posted a notice of proposed rulemaking for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA).…

Attackers "encrypted" VNDirect's data in an attack that kept the broker offline for days.

Cybercriminals are selling custom Raspberry Pi software called 'GEOBOX' on Telegram, which allows inexperienced hackers to convert the mini-computers into anonymous cyberattack tools. [...]

Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution Exclusive The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents hundreds of thousands of employees in sectors across the UK economy including tech and telecoms, is currently working to mitigate a cyberattack.…

The attacker employed various techniques, including distributing malicious dependencies via a fake Python infrastructure linked to GitHub projects.