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Cyble Announces Partnership with Fintech Australia – June 23rd
Global AI-native cybersecurity solutions company Cybel has announced a partnership with Fintech Australia, aiming to strengthen cyber resilience across Australia’s fast-growing financial sector.
16 Billion Passwords Breached – June 20th
The Cybernews research team discovered a record-breaking breach of over 16 billion passwords worldwide, including Facebook, Google, and Apple credentials. Cybernews states that this is new data and not merely recycled from older breaches, and the data most likely comes from a wide variety of infostealers.
Dutch Police Take Down major global cyber threat
The Dutch Police, Politie, claim to have removed a major threat to organizations all over the world by dismantling two of the most notorious ‘infostealers’, software designed to breach computer systems to steal sensitive information. “Operation Magnus,” conducted in collaboration with Team Cybercrime Limburg, is reported to have taken down the Redline and META info stealers, which have been responsible for infecting millions of computers worldwide with malware, leaving them open to devastating ransomware attacks and other threats.
EPA Issues Warning for US Drinking Water Systems – May 21st
On Monday, May 20th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a warning, urging water utility systems in the US to take action to prevent vulnerabilities. The EPA says 70% of water systems inspected don't fully comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act requirements, stating that some have "critical cyber vulnerabilities" such as default passwords that may be easily compromised.
FBI takes down BreachForums -again!
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the criminal hacking forum BreachForums after taking down its website last week. This follows the announcement in February of the seizure of the LockBit ransomware gang’s extortion website. “From June 2023 until May 2024, BreachForums (hosted at breachforums.st/.cx/.is/.vc and run by ShinyHunters) was operating as a clear-net marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade contraband, including stolen access devices, means of identification, hacking tools, breached databases, and other illegal services,” says an FBI advisory.
Cyberattack Halts Albanian Parliament Data System – December 29th
Albania's Parliament announced it was hit by a cyberattack targeting its data system, resulting in halting the Parliament's services. The Albanian Parliament assured that although disrupted, the data was not encrypted by the threat actors and that their services would go back online soon.
US White House Issues Executive Order to Improve Nation’s Cybersecurity – December 22nd
On December 21st, the U.S. White House issued Executive Order (EO) 14028, "Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity," which emphasized modernizing cybersecurity infrastructure by coding in more secure ways. A more detailed excerpt from the Executive Order stated; "Software engineers, developers, and coders must build secure code and security controls into the code they create. They need to make security by design and security by default software-design requirements."
Russian Campaign Targeting UK Politics Exposed – December 8th
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in collaboration with partners from the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand revealed the Russian-state-backed threat actors terrorizing UK political systems. The NCSC identified the group 'Star Blizzard' to be a subordinate to Centre 18 from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Star Blizzard targeted UK parliamentarians, UK-US trade documents, UK think tanks, universities, journalists, and NGOs using various sophisticated phishing tactics.
Storm gathers over the cloud
News of the mass exploitation of ownCloud customers as a result of a zero-day vulnerability follows revelations earlier this month of a critical security vulnerability in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Reports of gaping security flaws in cloud services come at a bad time for cloud service providers in general and Microsoft in particular. The Seattle-based computing giant is currently doing its utmost to persuade the US, UK, and Australian governments that its Azure Government Cloud is the best way for the AUKUS trio to securely update cross-border information and enhance mutual collaboration. This might prove problematic for Microsoft, whose Azure platform was recently proven to have a critical vulnerability, and some of whose government clients suffered a series of serious breaches earlier this year.
EU Cybersecurity Drill Tests Readiness for 2024 Elections – November 22nd
In preparation for the 2024 elections, the European Parliament's services, the European Commission, and the EU Agency for Cybersecurity conducted a cybersecurity exercise. The drill, held in the European Parliament, involved national and EU partners testing crisis plans and responses to potential cybersecurity incidents. Representatives from electoral and cybersecurity authorities participated, aiming to enhance their capacity to address cybersecurity issues and update protocols for securing election technology. The exercise addressed risks such as information manipulation and cyber-attacks, crucial for safeguarding the integrity of the upcoming European Parliament election scheduled for June 6-9, 2024.
Cybersecurity Market To Reach $478B by 2030 – November 13th
Despite recent talk of a tech slowdown that reaches cyber, Allied Market Research reported that the market is poised to grow to $478.68B by 2030, with a 9.5% annual growth rate. The data predicting the cybersecurity market's growth was taken from Allied Market Research's “Cyber Security Market by Component, Solution, Deployment Model, Enterprise Size, and Industry Vertical: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021–2030”.
West’s intelligence services join forces with Big Tech
In what the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is billing as “their first-ever joint public appearance”, the heads of the intelligence services of five Western governments, known as the “Five Eyes” are now meeting in Palo Alto, California, the heart of Silicon Valley.