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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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8 major IT disasters of 2024

CIO

The incident prompted some CIOs to rethink their dependence on cloud infrastructure, and it caused Microsoft to focus more on kernel-level access for other software packages. The department blamed a vendor working for the federal government for incorrectly calculating the financial aid formula, affecting more than 200,000 students.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Medusa Ransomware Impacting Critical Infrastructure, CISA Warns, While NIST Selects New Quantum-Resistant Algorithm

Tenable

Meanwhile, Tenable did a deep dive on DeepSeeks malware-creation capabilities. 1 - CISA: Hundreds of critical infrastructure orgs hit by Medusa ransomware Dont let the Medusa ransomware group turn your network into stone. Plus, another cryptographic algorithm that resists quantum attacks will be standardized. Thats the message the U.S.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Tenable

Meanwhile, cybercriminals have amplified their use of malware for fake software-update attacks. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Several vertical sectors, including government and IT, are being targeted. Also known as APT29, this group is affiliated with Russia’s government.

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Government Advisories Warn of APT Activity Resulting from Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Tenable

Government agencies publish warnings and guidance for organizations to defend themselves against advanced persistent threat groups. Critical Infrastructure.” This alert focuses on observed behavior from Russian state-sponsored threat groups targeting critical infrastructure organizations in several countries. Government.

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Ketch raises another $20M as demand grows for its privacy data control platform

TechCrunch

In 2020, Ketch introduced its data control platform for programmatic privacy, governance and security. There is also a matter of security, with much effort going into ransomware and malware, but Chavez feels a big opportunity is to bring security to the data wherever it lies. Ketch raises $23M to automate privacy and data compliance.

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