President Joe Biden has issued an executive order to protect Americans’ personal data from hostile countries, particularly China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela, targeting data brokers selling sensitive information to foreign entities and aiming to prevent large-scale transfers of personal data.
DSIT, industry experts, and the NCSC are developing a Cybersecurity Governance Code of Practice to enhance cyber resilience and promote good governance practices in organizations.
APT28, linked to the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, harvest credentials, proxy network traffic, and host spear-phishing landing pages using compromised routers.
A threat actor known as Savvy Seahorse orchestrates investment scams by impersonating major brands like Meta and Tesla, using a novel DNS CNAME trick to evade detection and shutdown efforts.
France’s National Cybersecurity Agency reports a significant increase in cyber espionage campaigns targeting government organizations, with a focus on ransomware attacks and vulnerabilities in software supply chains.
Proofpoint’s report reveals high percentage of organizations experiencing successful ransomware attacks, challenges in dealing with evolving cyber threats.
