Microsoft is extending its cyberskills development initiative to 23 new countries, including the UK, Australia, Sweden, France and Canada, to address increasing demand as well as lack of diversity.
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that Estonian national Maksim Berezan has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years imprisonment following his involvement in 13 or more ransomware attacks, seven of which were aimed at U.S. businesses and resulting in losses exceeding $53 million.
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Russian national Igor Dekhtyarchuk, who was also included in the FBI's Cyber Most Wanted List for establishing and running a cybercrime marketplace that facilitated the trade of stolen credit cards, compromised devices or accounts, and personal data.
the Racoon Stealer malware developer group has suspended operations following the death of one of their core developers amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Botnet distributed denial-of-service attacks have not only been growing in volume but also in sophistication, with IoT botnet and amplifier attack capacity surpassing 10Tbps, or equivalent to a three- to fourfold increase in usual attack size.
The Legacy Reduction Act requires chief information officers at the 24 CFO Act agencies to compile an inventory of legacy software systems at their agency, their expected retirement dates and the price of replacing them with newer technologies
