Fancy Bear has utilized at least 11 unique lures in campaigns targeting organizations in Argentina, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Poland, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the United States.

Zero tolerance of failure by infosec professionals is unrealistic, and makes it harder for cybersecurity folk to do the essential part of their job: recovering fast from inevitable attacks, according to Gartner analysts Chris Mixter and Dennis Xu.

“The account system was not compromised. What we did experience and catch was an attempt to log in to some accounts. To protect our customers we have reset some passwords which prompted the message,” said Daniel Benkwitt, a company spokesperson said.

The DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) reported on March 15, 2024, that it processed its 50,000th vulnerability since introducing its crowd-sourced ethical hacking scheme in November 2016.

City spokesperson Jason Wheeler told Recorded Future News that officials are experiencing phone issues across city departments that are causing delays in receiving service through the 311 Citizen Support system.

With temporary failures of critical infrastructure on the rise in the recent years, 81% of US residents are worried about how secure critical infrastructure may be, according to MITRE and The Harris Poll.

In a blog post on Monday, Mintlify blamed its March 1 incident on a vulnerability in its own systems but said 91 of its customers had their GitHub tokens compromised as a result.

The signees agree to establish “robust guardrails and procedures” around spyware, prevent the export of technology that will be used for malicious cyber activity, share information on spyware proliferation and work to raise awareness globally.

In filings with regulators in Maine and California, the company said it discovered a cybersecurity incident on December 30 that prompted an investigation. Law enforcement and other governmental agencies were notified of the cyberattack.