Landmark US-UK Data Access Agreement Begins
UK law enforcers should be biggest beneficiaries
Cyber NewsRansomware Group Bypasses “Enormous” Range of EDR Tools
BlackByte delivers new way to circumvent endpoint detection
Cyber NewsCanadian Netwalker Ransomware Affiliate Sentenced to 20 Years in U.S. Prison
A former affiliate of the Netwalker ransomware has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the U.S., a little over three months after the Canadian national pleaded guilty to his role in the crimes. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, 35, has also been ordered to forfeit $21,500,000 that was illicitly obtained from dozens of victims globally, including companies, municipalities, […]
Cyber NewsNew Initiative Aims to Strengthen UK’s Nuclear Cybersecurity Posture
Sector-specific hub will look to professionalize the sector
Cyber NewsMitigation for Exchange Zero-Days Bypassed! Microsoft Issues New Workarounds
Microsoft has revised its mitigation measures for the newly disclosed and actively exploited zero-day flaws in Exchange Server after it was found that they could be trivially bypassed. The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082, have been codenamed ProxyNotShell due to similarities to another set of flaws called ProxyShell, which the tech giant resolved last year.
Cyber NewsCISA Directive Improves Asset Visibility, Vulnerability Detection on Federal Networks
It requires some federal agencies to perform automated asset discovery every seven days
Cyber NewsFormer NSA Employee Faces Death Penalty for Selling Secrets
Suspect allegedly thought he was swapping secrets with a foreign government for crypto — but the contact turned out to be an FBI agent.
Cyber NewsAussie Telco Telstra Breached, Reportedly Exposing 30,000 Employees’ Data
The Telstra cyber incident comes just weeks after its main rival Optus suffered a major compromise of its customer database.
Cyber NewsRussian Hacker Arrested in India for Reportedly Helping Students Cheat in JEE-Main Exam
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday disclosed that it has detained a Russian national for allegedly hacking into a software platform used to conduct engineering entrance assessments in the country in 2021. “The said accused was detained by the Bureau of Immigration at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi while arriving in India from […]
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