Over 100 malware servers shut down in ‘largest ever’ operation against botnets
International law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they took several of the most influential malware families offline in the “largest ever operation against botnets.” The malicious software...
Senate chairman wants new White House-led panel to streamline federal cyber rules
A top Democratic senator is pushing draft legislation that would require the White House to create a new interagency committee to streamline and better coordinate federal cybersecurity regulations,...
Bill would give Commerce Department the ability to ban Chinese-made vehicles
Federal legislation introduced Wednesday would create a formal structure for a national security audit of connected vehicles manufactured in China and other adversarial nations, giving the Department of...
Ukraine signs new security deals as it seeks long-term support from West
TALLINN, Estonia — Since the start of this week, Ukraine has signed security agreements with Spain, Belgium and Portugal, adding to a list that includes a dozen other...
How the DOJ is using a Civil War-era law to enforce corporate cybersecurity
Amid an onslaught of high-profile cyberattacks showing how companies often neglect basic security measures, the Department of Justice is trying to use a law passed during the Civil...
RansomHub claims attack on Christie’s, the world’s wealthiest auction house
The criminal group calling itself RansomHub claimed on Monday to have been behind a cyberattack targeting the British auction house Christie’s. A listing on RansomHub’s darknet extortion...
NSA official is expected pick for Marines information job, as Corps handles backlog of...
President Joe Biden is expected to pick a recently installed National Security Agency official to be the U.S. Marine Corps’ next deputy commandant for information, according to two...
Amid funding cuts, backlog of unanalyzed vulnerabilities in gov’t database is growing
More than 90% of submissions to the government's National Vulnerabilities Database have not been analyzed or enriched since the agency announced cutbacks in February, new research shows. ...
Ascension slowly restoring network as nurses, doctors cite real-world dangers of attack
Catholic hospital network Ascension said it expects to make progress in recovering from a ransomware attack by the end of the Memorial Day weekend. The nonprofit’s more...
Wargames director Jackie Schneider on why cyber is one of ‘the most interesting scholarly...
The Hoover Institution’s director of war gaming and crisis simulation, Jacquelyn Schneider, had certain assumptions when she started organizing war simulations more than a decade ago. ...
