Minnesota's Winona County will be receiving support from the state's National Guard in responding to a cyberattack earlier this week that has significantly crippled emergency and municipal services as part of an emergency executive order issued by Gov. Tim Walz, reports StateScoop.
Cybersecurity Dive reports that major international sporting events like the recently concluded Milan Cortina Olympics and the upcoming FIFA World Cup function as high-stakes stress tests for cybersecurity incident response, offering a magnified view of threats that routinely plague ordinary enterprises.
Americans were noted by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center to have reported significantly higher losses from increasingly prevalent cyber-enabled fraud and ransomware attacks in 2025, compared with the year before, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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