The website defacement only lasted for about 30 minutes and in itself was a fairly minor incident, with the attackers posting a cryptocurrency scam reminiscent of the Twitter breach in July.
The Trump administration has proposed a $707 million cut to CISA’s operating budget, citing waste, weaponization, and redundancy concerns, as nation-state cyber threats increase.
Trump fired the Democrat members of PCLOB on January 17, after having given them several days to voluntarily resign. The privacy board has indicated that its work is now at a standstill, and EU-US data transfers may be threatened going forward.
The CISA 2026 budget cuts would be accompanied by a reduction of 1,083 CISA positions, a cut of almost a third of its present count of 3,292 employees. The Cyber Defense Education and Training program would also be gutted, with the budget proposal suggesting that it could be replaced by free resources.
SIM swap scams are increasingly profitable for criminals with the growing dependence on phone-based authentication and mobile wallets storing cryptocurrencies. Are mobile carriers doing enough to prevent SIM swap fraud?
The U.S. aviation sector is looking at new cybersecurity requirements in four fundamental areas: network segmentation and redundancy, access control, monitoring and detection of threats, and timely patching.
LockBit ransomware will undoubtedly be copied and used by other threat actors in the near term, putting the group's business at risk. But the leak of the ransomware builder also gives security researchers valuable insights.
Sophos found that 64% of healthcare organizations chose to pay ransom after ransomware attacks in 2021, up from 34% in 2020, but only 2% of payers recovered all encrypted data.
The data breach first emerged in late June when the hacking group ShinyHunters posted a dump of 33 million phone numbers to BreachForums, now confirmed to be taken from an Authy API endpoint.
Twilio said that the data of 125 customers was accessed by the threat actors for some amount of time. Privacy messaging app Signal has indicated that the attackers had some level of access to about 1,900 registered phone numbers.
