Infosecurity News

New Cybersecurity World Record Set
Cybersecurity training achievement is a Guinness World Record first

US Secret Service Announces Cyber Games Winner
South Carolinians beat more than 200 teams to win NCFI’s Training and Cyber Games Competition

FOI Request Reveals Scale of Data Breaches at UK Councils
UK councils experienced 33,645 data breaches caused by human error in the past five years

22% of Brits Received Proof of Vaccination Phishing Email in Past Six Months
The majority of these scam messages impersonated the NHS

Halloween Horror-Show for Candy-Maker Hit by Ransomware
Chicago-based Ferrara slowly recovering as other firms are compromised again

Over 80% of Brits Deluged with Scam Calls and Texts
Summer of spam sees scammers ramp-up their fraud campaigns

Government Agents Compromise REvil Backups to Force Group Offline
Report reveals international operation to disrupt notorious ransomware operation

US Imprisons Bulletproof Hosting Providers
Two Eastern Europeans receive prison sentences for helping cyber-criminals to distribute malware

DOJ Sues Robocaller to Pay Massive Fine
US seeks to recover $9.9m from Montanan fined for making nearly 5,000 illegal and malicious robocalls

CISA Awards $2M to Cybersecurity Training Programs
NPower and CyberWarrior receive funding to train unemployed and underemployed

72% of Organizations Experienced a DNS Attack in the Past Year
Of those organizations impacted by DNS attacks, 61% were targeted on multiple occasions

#ISC2Congress: How to Mitigate Evolving Insider Threats
The changing nature of insider threats and how to mitigate them were topics of a talk by Lisa Forte

Threat Actors Abusing Discord to Spread Malware
Check Point researchers warn platform needs more in-built protections

US to Ban Export of Hacking Tools to Authoritarian States
Latest commerce department rule will include exemptions

Data Scrapers Expose 2.6 Million Instagram and TikTok Users
Information was found in a misconfigured Elasticsearch server

Russian Cyber-Criminals Switch to Cloud
New study reveals changing tactics of Russian-speaking threat actors from 2015 to now

Space ISAC and NY InfraGard to Collaborate on Cybersecurity in Space
New York Metro InfraGard Members Alliance and the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center announce cybersecurity MOU

Data Breach Could Cost Missouri $50M
Show-Me State facing big bill after making personal data of school employees vulnerable

81% of UK Healthcare Organizations Hit by Ransomware in Last Year
65% of respondents believe a cyber attack on their organization could lead to loss of life

Twitter Pulls Account After Argentinian Mega Breach Claims
Individual purports to have ID card details of entire population



