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government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) , about potential retaliatory attacks from cyber actors affiliated with the Iranian government as well as hacktivists. government agencies about retaliatory attacks, we’re also seeing a slight increase in reported activity by threat actors.
has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Tianfeng worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co., based Sophos Ltd.
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based technology company Micfo LLC , has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. As a result, the government was able to charge Golestan with 20 counts of wire fraud — one for each payment made by the phony companies that bought the IP addresses from ARIN. Amir Golestan , the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C.
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million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Taking an active role Your cybersecurity policy should address your employees and technology systems. Employee training is crucial.
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