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The Treasury Department announced sanctions in connection with a massive Chinese hack of American telecommunications companies and a breach of its own computer network.

TikTok said it will have to “go dark” this weekend unless Biden assures the company it won’t enforce a shutdown after the Supreme Court upheld the ban.

CISA and other agencies call to action for the US government to take steps to close the software understanding gap.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: several multi-million dollar settlements, CrowdStrike-themed phishing emails, and MITRE launches D3FEND 1.0.

Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP says more than 3.4 million people were impacted by a December 2023 data breach.

Google releases OSV-SCALIBR, an open source library for software composition analysis and file system scanning.

The US Treasury has sanctioned two individuals and four entities involved in the North Korean fake IT worker scheme.

Industry professionals comment on the Biden administration’s new executive order on cybersecurity. 

Three vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp could allow attackers to compromise the remote access software’s server and the client machine.

Cisco has unveiled AI Defense, a solution designed to help organizations protect development and use of AI applications. 

Microsoft researchers catches Russia’s Star Blizzard hackers spear-phishing with QR codes and WhatsApp group chats.

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Karl Triebes has joined Ivanti as Chief Product Officer.

Steven Hernandez has joined USAID as CISO and Deputy CIO.

Data security and privacy firm Protegrity has named Michael Howard as its CEO.

Anand Ramanathan has been appointed as Chief Product Officer at Deepwatch.

Managed security platform provider Deepwatch has appointed Sammie Walker as CMO.

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The Treasury Department announced sanctions in connection with a massive Chinese hack of American telecommunications companies and a breach of its own computer network.

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In 2024 organizations informed the US government about 585 healthcare data breaches affecting a total of nearly 180 million user records.

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Jen Easterly hopes CISA is allowed to continue its election-related work under new leadership despite “contentiousness” around that part of its mission.

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Fortinet patches critical vulnerabilities, including a zero-day that has been exploited in the wild since at least November 2024. 

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday rollout includes fixes for 160 security defects, the largest number of CVEs addressed in any single month since at least 2017.

Attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Aviatrix Controller to execute arbitrary code in AWS cloud environments.

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