USTelecom asked the NIST to connect its landmark cybersecurity framework—a menu of security controls for organizations’ voluntary implementation—to performance goals the Biden administration told NIST to publish for critical infrastructure.
The infamous ransomware group known as Conti has continued its onslaught against entities despite suffering a massive data leak of its own earlier this year, according to new research.
SonarSource said the financing was led by new investors Advent International and General Catalyst. Insight Venture Partners, which invested $45 million back in 2016, also participated in the latest round.
In an update to its initial September 2021 breach notice, Smile Brands has assessed that the ransomware attack and subsequent data theft impacted approximately 2.6 million individuals.
This bounty is being offered as part of the Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program, which rewards informants for information leading to identifying or locating foreign government threat actors who target U.S. critical infrastructure.
It’s been four months since Log4Shell, a critical zero-day vulnerability in the ubiquitous Apache Log4j library, was discovered, and threat analysts warn that the application of the available fixes is still way behind.
The Series B round, which was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from EnBW New Ventures and ETF Partners, is said to be the largest raise to date for a European crowdsourced security platform.
DarkWatchman is a malicious Remote Access Trojan (RAT) based on JavaScript, using command and control (C2) mechanisms for fileless persistence, as well as other capabilities.
The attacks detected by Kaspersky easily surpassed those of the previous quarter and were up 46% at the same time last year. The number of targeted attacks was up by an even higher percentage – 81% compared to the previous quarter.
Intel 471 assesses with high confidence that Emotet malware operators’ spam targets will enter a pool of potential Conti victims and it’s likely that Emotet is highly relied upon by Conti ransomware operators to find their current victims.