Vulnerability exploits, pure extortion and internal risks are on the rise, while AI threats fall short ..read more

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that former National Security Agency information systems security designer Jareh Sebastian Dalke was given a prison sentence of 262 months, or nearly 22 years, for trying to sell confidential documents with U.S. national defense information to Russia, The Register reports ..read more

Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence, or GUR, has taken responsibility for disrupting the online services of United Russia, the country's ruling party, on Apr. 26, coinciding with Russia's "Victory Dictation" initiative after the party confirmed that its online services had been disrupted by a "massive" distributed denial-of-service attack, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future ..read more

Only more than 57,000 searches were conducted by the FBI on the database of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2023, representing an over 50% decrease in queries from the previous year that a senior FBI official said was due to the agency's internal reforms, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future ..read more

CISA Director Jen Easterly told lawmakers that Chinese cyberespionage threats warrants budget boost ..read more

Microsoft recorded 1,228 security vulnerabilities in 2023, representing a 5% decline from the year prior and the steady prevalence of reported security issues since 2020, TechRepublic reports ..read more

Attacks deploying the Agent Tesla and Taskun malware strains have been launched against U.S. government agencies and educational institutions, reports Hackread ..read more

Suspected Chinese state-backed threat operation Muddling Meerkat has ramped up global DNS manipulation since last September, nearly four years after it commenced such activities, BleepingComputer reports ..read more

Belarus had its primary KGB security agency's network claimed to have been compromised by the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans hacktivist operation, resulting in the theft of data belonging to more than 8,600 KGB employees, The Associated Press reports ..read more

Ukraine had its systems subjected to attacks involving the exploitation of an almost seven-year-old Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8570, to facilitate Cobalt Strike deployment late last year, reports The Hacker News ..read more