Government Regulations

The sanctioned Chinese companies, Integrity Technology Group and Anxun Information Technology, are accused of providing technical support and hacking services that compromised over 65,000 devices and targeted critical infrastructure.

The new regulations will enable "proactive cyber-defense" actions, allowing Japan's police and Self-Defense Forces to "attack and disable" infrastructure used for cyberattacks.

Major South Korean credit card provider Lotte Card has been ordered by the country's Personal Information Protection Commission to pay a nearly $6.5 million fine following an August data breach that exposed the personal and credit information of 2.97 million customers, reports Cybernews.

StateScoop reports that rural water utilities across the U.S. would be able to seek funding to modernize their cybersecurity systems and digital monitoring tools under the Futureproofing Local Operations for Water Systems, or FLOWS, Act.

A Hiya survey reveals that one in four Americans received a deepfake voice call in the past twelve months, with an additional 24% unsure if they could distinguish AI-generated voices from real ones.

The U.S. Department of Defense was noted by the Government Accountability Office as not yet having fully accounted for outside factors that could influence the success of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program compliance within the defense industry, reports DefenseScoop.

Multiple federal and state officials said that a lack of public concern about Chinese state-backed hacking group Salt Typhoon's hacking campaign against telecommunications firms across the U.S. has been slowing down efforts to bolster the sector's cybersecurity regulations, CyberScoop reports.

Half a dozen individuals and a pair of companies in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Spain have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control over their involvement with North Korea's global fake IT worker scheme that funds the country's weapons programs, CBS News reports.