Nearly one year to the day since the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, U.S. officials say that cybersecurity coordination between the federal government and critical infrastructure is much improved, but departments and agencies are still working through how to coordinate their regulatory pushes with other stakeholders in and out of government.
Rezilion researchers discovered that the attack surface for the critical Log4Shell zero-day flaw in the Apache Log4j library continues to be significant four months since its discovery, according to BleepingComputer.
Cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions may reach record-highs this year, with M&A activity already reaching nearly $27 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, compared with $70.4 billion and $27.5 billion for the entirety of 2021 and 2020, respectively, reports SecurityWeek.
Seventy-four percent of IT security decision-makers around the world noted the potential failure of prevention-first security approaches and systems, saying that their organizations have been impacted by a significant security incident between February 2021 and February 2022.
Motorola Solutions has introduced the Public Safety Threat Alliance, a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-recognized cyber threat intelligence sharing and analysis organization aimed at providing public safety agencies various data in an effort to help them bolster their cybersecurity posture and resilience.
The new Prynt Stealer info-stealer malware has been developed with comprehensive stealthiness and data exfiltration capabilities to target various messaging apps, web browsers, and gaming apps.
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