Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Risk of Espionage and Disruption Key Risks, Lawmakers WarnedThe British government is "extremely worried" about the Chinese and Russian cyber espionage and disruptive hacks, government officials told the U.K. Public Accounts Committee on Monday. The United Kingdom has faced a "substantial escalation in cyberthreats" in the last three years, lawmakers heard.

Risk of Espionage and Disruption Key Risks, Lawmakers WarnedThe British government is "extremely worried" about the Chinese and Russian cyber espionage and disruptive hacks, government officials told the UK Public Accounts Committee on Monday. The United Kingdom has faced a "substantial escalation in cyberthreats" in the last three years, lawmakers heard.

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the court-authorized disruption of a global network compromised by an advanced malware strain known as Snake wielded by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB)

Russian-speaking cyberattackers boast they are behind disruption of Colorado, Kentucky, and Mississippi government websites.

US government officials announced today the disruption of the Cyclops Blink botnet controlled by the Russian-backed Sandworm hacking group before being used in attacks. [...]

And it may have a VPNFilter link, too Tens of thousands of Viasat satellite broadband modems that were disabled in a cyber-attack late last month were wiped by malware with links to the Russian government's destructive VPNFilter, according to SentinelOne.…

While Moscow tells its operators: Treat any infrastructure outage as a 'computer attack' As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the latter's government is reportedly seeking cybersecurity volunteers to help defend itself. Meanwhile, Russia's CERT has warned critical infrastructure operators that any strange outages should be treated as "a computer attack."…