The breach of the Microsoft Exchange email server software is estimated to have hit tens of thousands of victims. The Biden administration has formally declared that Chinese state-backed APT groups were behind the original cyber attacks.
The FBI, CISA, and the Treasury Department warned about Maui ransomware attacks by state-sponsored North Korean hackers targeting US healthcare organizations.
A loose group of Russian criminals and amateur hackers are behind a wave of DDoS attacks that has disrupted the normal function of the websites of numerous US airports.
Law enforcement and cyber authorities in the United States and Japan have attributed North Korean hackers to the DMM Bitcoin crypto heist worth about $308 million.
The US Department of Treasury and the UK’s Foreign Office have sanctioned 11 Russian nationals for their role in Conti ransomware and TrickBot cybercrime gangs.
US Authorities seized cryptocurrency worth $24 million in Operation Egypto, targeting an online fraud scheme that stole over $200 million from tens of thousands of Brazilian investors.
The situation is very similar to the assorted US bans on TikTok, but concerns about Kaspersky products are not new among federal agencies; the national government banned its civilian agencies from using them in 2017.
Fearing the potential of an outright ban on facial recognition technology, U.S. Chamber of Commerce has written an open letter to urge political leaders to consider all its positive uses.
The US Chamber of Commerce stands in opposition to the passage of a federal privacy law citing its priority over individual state law and its guarantee of rights to class action lawsuits as dealbreakers.
US consumer finance watchdog appears to have data brokers in its crosshairs, announcing that it is developing a new rules proposal for the industry. CFPB specifically noted a focus on the impact of AI and announced that an outline of proposals will be released sometime in September.
