Tag: Cybersecurity

AI data risks prompt new global cybersecurity guidance (DigWatch)

A coalition of cybersecurity agencies, including the NSA, FBI, and CISA, has issued joint guidance to help organisations protect AI systems from emerging data...

UK cyber agency pushes for ‘strategic policy agenda’ as government efforts stall (Alexander Martin – The Record)

Following years-long delays in the United Kingdom bringing forward new cybersecurity legislation, what seems to be an increasingly exasperated National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)...

Trump limits use of cyber rules to punish US hackers, election meddlers (David DiMolfetta – Defense One)

Obama- and Biden-era cybersecurity rules will no longer be used to punish Americans and U.S. firms who engage in malicious cyber activities, nor used...

Microsoft makes a ‘proactive investment’ in EU cybersecurity amid bloc’s tensions with US (Alexander Martin – The Record)

Microsoft announced on Wednesday it was launching a new European Security Program that would involve the company providing free “AI-based” threat intelligence to European...

Ukraine tallies up Russian cyberattacks on local media since start of war (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

Russian hackers have carried out more than 200 successful cyberattacks on Ukrainian media outlets since the start of the war three years ago, targeting...

More than $12 million stolen from crypto platform Cork Protocol (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

Hackers stole more than $12 million worth of cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Cork Protocol in a Wednesday morning attack. Company co-founder...

Google warns of Vietnam-based hackers using bogus AI video generators to spread malware (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

Fake AI-powered video generators are being used to spread infostealers and other types of malware, Google researchers have found. A group of cybercriminals created...

Cybersecurity Risk From Kaspersky to TikTok (Daniel Sutherland, Jim Dempsey – Lawfare)

In its final weeks, the Biden administration established a complex new regulatory structure that affects potentially every American company collecting personal information. The rule...

Tech coalition to push for faster US foreign cybersecurity aid (DigWatch)

A coalition of leading technology and cybersecurity firms, including Carahsoft, Dell Technologies, Forescout, Google Cloud, Trellix, and Velos, has launched the Strategic Cybersecurity Coalition...

US should rethink current views of Russia’s cyber might, new report says (David DiMolfetta – NextGov)

U.S. policymakers should reassess their assumptions about Russia’s cyber capabilities to include its murky cybercrime ecosystem that doesn’t always have clear ties to Kremlin...

FBI warns AI hackers are impersonating US officials to infiltrate government (Interesting Engineering)

The FBI has issued a warning about a growing cyber campaign that uses AI-generated voice and text messages to impersonate senior U.S. government officials....

Lawmakers push for reauthorization of cyber information sharing bill as deadline looms (Suzanne Smalley – The Record)

A bipartisan group of lawmakers sitting on a key cybersecurity subcommittee uniformly argued Thursday for an imminent reauthorization of a key cybersecurity information sharing...

Counting the costs: A cybersecurity metrics framework for policy (Stewart Scott – Atlantic Council)

US cybersecurity policy has a critical blind spot: the absence of reliable outcome metrics that can inform policymakers about whether the digital ecosystem is...

Noem calls for reauthorization of cyberthreat information sharing law during RSA keynote (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem urged Congress on Tuesday to reauthorize a 10-year-old law that encourages businesses to share information about ongoing...

UK officials warn lawmakers of ‘turbulence’ at US cyber agencies, but say partnership will prevail (Alexander Martin – The Record)

Lawmakers on Britain’s national security committee heard on Tuesday how the United States was risking its own security by politicizing and potentially downsizing its...

Krebs: People should be ‘outraged’ at efforts to shrink federal cyber efforts (Martin Matishak – The Record)

Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency chief Chris Krebs on Monday said the larger security community should be “absolutely outraged” at the Trump administration’s...