The Breachforums hacking forum has now been raided by law enforcement for the third time since 2022, likely in no small part due to IntelBroker hitting Five Eyes and Europol within the space of a month.
Christie’s did not have to cancel any of the $578 million worth of art auctions during its busy period, but did have to push at least one back a day as it scrambled to work around reduced online functionality due to a cyber attack.
Europol looks to have been hit for some sensitive and classified information as a moderator with one of the biggest underground data trading forums claimed an attack and posted samples.
Georgia’s university system was thought to be among the first wave of organizations compromised when the MOVEit breach emerged in May 2023, but notifications have just recently been issued to about 800,000 likely victims.
The State Department’s international cybersecurity strategy makes clear the US government hopes to be at the head of a global consensus that exerts influence over everything from the internet’s undersea cables on up in the digital sphere.
Another hole in a contractor’s defenses has led to a third party breach of a system containing sensitive government information, as the Ministry of Defense has confirmed that the financial information of some 272,000 UK armed forces personnel has been exposed.
CEO Satya Nadella has specifically noted that Microsoft’s security initiative and focus on cyber threats must always come ahead of any other concern, including feature additions and improvement and support for legacy products.
Aside from continuing employee- and staffing-related struggles, the Verizon DBIR report also sees something of a “golden age” of vulnerability exploitation developing for cyber criminals.
A report issued by South Korea’s National Police Agency indicates that the “big three” of North Korean hackers have all been involved in a project to hack national defense companies since at least late 2022.
The government has a valid theoretical national security concern, one that has already led to TikTok bans on most federal devices and at numerous state and local levels, but the argument is not landing well with a US public that has almost half its population on the app.