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In the recent Ukraine attacks, threat actors leveraged stolen credentials and they likely had access to the targeted network for months before causing damage. [Read More]
Cloud security and compliance automation startup Anitian has banked a $55 million Series B round led by Sageview Capital. [Read More]
The IPv6 guidance provides federal agencies with information on IPv6 and its security features, along with security considerations on the network protocol. [Read More]
Western security officials and policymakers fear that China could exploit Nuctech equipment to sabotage key transit points or get illicit access to government, industrial or personal data from the items that pass through its devices. [Read More]
Threat hunters at Kaspersky have spotted a well-known Chinese APT actor using an UEFI implant to maintain stealthy persistence across reboots, disk formatting or disk replacements. [Read More]
In the 1960s, the Cold War with the USSR was at its height and hot war raged in Vietnam. The world was on the brink, and songs like P.F. Sloan’s Eve of Destruction were popular. The world pulled back, and things changed. [Read More]
CISA has warned organizations in the United States about potential critical threats following the recent Russia-linked attacks aimed at Ukraine. [Read More]
A vulnerability in Box's implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA) allowed attackers to take over accounts without needing access to the target's phone. [Read More]
Major ICS vendors and other organizations have been targeted in an ongoing cyberespionage campaign that appears to focus on renewable energy. [Read More]
NATO has inked a deal to bolster its cyber support for Ukraine, after a sweeping hacking attack against Kyiv heightened tensions amid fears that Russia could be plotting an invasion. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Cyberwarfare
Plausible deniability provides a massive operational leeway to military operations in cyberspace, enabling governments to take actions without risking an all-out war.
While global corporations have been targeted by Iran-linked threat actors, the escalating tensions in recent weeks will inevitably bring more repercussions as tools and tactics change with new strategic goals.
Against the ongoing backdrop of cyber conflict between nation states and escalating warnings from the Department of Homeland Security, critical infrastructure is becoming a central target for threat actors.
We must recognize industrial cyberattacks as tactics in a new form of “economic warfare” being waged between nation-states to gain economic and political advantage without having to pay the price of open combat.
The lifting of certain sanctions may provide an alternative incentive to limit certain types of cyberwar activity.
It’s critical to recognize that there will always be virtual ways in which terrorists and other criminals can create threats that no border process or physical security program can stop.
Thomas Rid, Professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, joins the podcast to discuss the lack of nuance in the crypto debate and the future of global cyber conflict.
If there were any lingering doubts that cybersecurity is a geopolitical issue with global implications, such opinions were cast on the rocks by discussions this past week at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The overall industry tone of caution around active defenses may be calibrated to defuse the notion rather than taking the argument, buying time for other alternatives to surface.
Does a dangerous threat lie with ISIS’s possible use of cyber weapons against American critical infrastructure, financial system or other targets? Will such attacks be attempted and do the capabilities exist within ISIS to do so?
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