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Top White House cyber official urges Trump to focus on ransomware, China

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Dissent

Jonathan Grieg reports: Anne Neuberger, the U.S. deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, spoke at Columbia University on Wednesday and was asked about what pressing cyber challenges the new administration should tackle in its first 100 days. “I’m going to put them into three bins. China, criminal groups like ransomware actors, and…

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In the midst of restructuring, Guardian Healthcare hit by ransomware attack

Posted on November 8, 2024November 8, 2024 by Dissent

A recent article on the cybersecurity risks posed by mergers and acquisitions begins: When companies merge, it creates significant cybersecurity challenges in two main ways: firstly, challenges arise in integrating disparate security infrastructures, and secondly, an M&A transaction brings together diverse organizational cultures which presents its own challenges from a cyber perspective. Yet the limited…

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INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia II took down 22,000 malicious IP addresses

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Dissent

From an INTERPOL announcement yessterday: A global INTERPOL operation has taken down more than 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats. Operation Synergia II (1 April – 31 August 2024) specifically targeted phishing, ransomware and information stealers and was a joint effort from INTERPOL, private sector partners and law enforcement agencies from…

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City of Columbus, Ohio cyberattack by Rhysida affected 500,000 residents

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Dissent

There’s an update to an incident affecting the City of Columbus, Ohio. That’s the one where a judge prohibited David L. Ross from talking to the media about it after the city sought to silence him after he began publicly refuting the city’s false or inaccurate claims about the breach. The city subsequently settled its…

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FBI has conducted more than 30 disruption operations in 2024

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Dissent

Christian Vasquez reports: The FBI is seeing progress in the fight against ransomware gangs after conducting more than 30 disruption operations this year in which officials targeted the infrastructure used by those groups, one of the bureau’s top cybersecurity officials said Wednesday. Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said during CyberScoop’s…

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HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles Ransomware Cybersecurity Investigation for $500,000

Posted on October 31, 2024October 31, 2024 by Dissent

A press release from HHS OCR today announces a settlement with Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota. In July 2017, DataBreaches reported that the entity was notifying 10,200 patients after a ransomware incident.   Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a settlement with Plastic Surgery…

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