With the investigation ongoing, Judiciary said federal courts across the country will be adding new security procedures aimed at protecting highly sensitive confidential documents filed with courts.
The new Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET) will help lead diplomatic efforts around these topics, including working to prevent cyber conflicts with adversarial nations.
First identified in 2014, Emotet has been regularly updated by its developers. The DHS has estimated that each incident involving Emotet costs organizations upwards of $1 million dollars to rectify.
The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which saw rioters storm the building and reportedly steal devices belonging to government officials, opened what one cybersecurity expert has called a Pandora’s box of national security and data privacy issues.
New research demonstrates how an adversary in possession of a two-factor authentication (2FA) device can clone it by exploiting an electromagnetic side-channel in the chip embedded in it.
A malicious spam campaign that targeted over a hundred thousand users a day over Christmas and New Year has seen Emotet secure its spot as the most prolific malware threat.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday the creation of a new bureau inside the US Department of State dedicated to addressing cybersecurity as part of the US’ foreign policy and diplomatic efforts.
Researchers are warning that several cyber gangs have started infecting Linux machines via a fileless malware installation technique that until recently was more commonly used against Windows-based systems.
CISA said that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds hack also used password guessing and password spraying attacks to breach targets as part of its recent hacking campaign and didn’t always rely on trojanized updates as its initial access vector.
Researchers have linked the botnet to a cybercrime operation known as TeamTNT; a group first spotted over the 2020 summer installing cryptocurrency-mining malware on misconfigured container platforms.