InfoSec News Nuggets 05/11/2023

Hackers attempt to extort Dragos and its executives in suspected ransomware attempt  Unknown hackers attempted to infiltrate Dragos, one of the leading industrial cybersecurity firms that works with government agencies and utilities globally, in a unsuccessful campaign that targeted the company’s executives and their family members, the firm said on Wednesday. “We are confident that our layered security controls prevented the threat actor from accomplishing what we believe to be their primary objective of launching ransomware,”…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 03/10/2022

1 - FBI pushes for ‘real time’ cyber incident reporting mandates, liability protections FBI Director Christopher Wray continued to argue that his bureau should receive mandatory reports about hacks and other significant cyber incidents from critical infrastructure “in real time” and called for strong liability protections for businesses. In testimony to the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday, Wray was asked to assess the impact of the Cyber Incident Reporting Act, which passed the Senate last week in a…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 3/25/2020

Elite hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks spike Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks. WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio said the identity of the hackers was unclear and the effort was unsuccessful. But he warned that hacking attempts against the agency and its partners have soared as…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 10/02/2019

600 armed German cops storm Cyberbunker hosting biz on illegal darknet market claims Cops have seized the physical premises and servers of the Dutch-German ISP that once hosted The Pirate Bay – after storming the hosting biz's ex-NATO bunker hideout with 600 gunmen. Cyberbunker, aka CB3ROB, was shut down by German police in what appears to be a military-grade operation targeting the hosting firm's Traben-Trarbach premises: a Cold War-era bunker complete with its original anti-intrusion…
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