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US Pulls Back Curtain on Russian Cyber Operations Twitter Get Permission While the Biden administration is betting that the latest round of sanctions against Russia will help deter the country's cyber operations, several U.S. agencies, including the National Security Agency, used the sanctions announcement as an opportunity to pull back the curtain on the tactics of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday denied that the country was involved in the SolarWinds supply chain attack as well as election disinformation campaigns, as the U.S. alleged...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives to address the staff on his first day at the Department of Justice March 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. The decision by Justice to dismantle ‘hundreds’ of web shells installed using Exchange Server vulnerabilities is being hailed as a landmark use of a new authority. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) The decision by the Department of Justice announced Tuesday to dismantle ‘hundreds’ of web shells installed using Exchange Server vulnerabilities, mitigating the threat to private servers in bulk, is being hailed as a landmar...

In a related announcement, the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Security & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today issued a joint advisory warning of the SVR actively targeting widely deployed network and communication technologies on US networks from companies such as Fortinet, Pulse Secure, Citrix, and VMware. The actions mark the first time the US government has formally named a Russian intelligence agency as the perpetrator of the SolarWinds attack and subsequent intrusions into other networks, including those belonging to government...

'); //]]>//--> By Jack M. Germain Feb 16, 2021 5:00 AM PT Some cybersecurity experts agree with a report by Cybersecurity Ventures and expect financial damages from cybercrime to reach $6 trillion by the end of this year. Industry studies show that cyberattacks are among the fastest-growing crimes in the United States. Cyberattacks are absolutely on the rise. Based on everything we know and every single analyst we have spoken with, there is no doubt that attacks are increasing, according to Robert McKay, senior vice president, risk solutions at Neustar. "Cybersecurity experts predict that in ...

Enterprises Remain Riddled With Overprivileged Users -- and Attackers Know It Attackers commonly focus on finding users with too much privileged access as their ticket to network compromise. What can companies do? Recent breaches have underscored the dangers of overprivileged user accounts and software processes, highlighting the need for companies to discover and mitigate the privileged accounts that could be used by attackers to further compromise important systems and applications.  Last month, the breach of an administrative account at video service provider Verkada left the firm's custo...