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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin calling out Iran’s “robust cyber program,” and cautioning everyone to be prepared for Iran to “conduct operations in the United States.” It could involve multiple state actors, adversarial to the West, joining forces to co-ordinate an attack, or even multiple attacks.”

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Cybersecurity in 2022, Predictions for digital ecosystem facing more challenges and sophisticated threats

CyberSecurity Insiders

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware. forbes.com).

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Cybercrime will go to the next level: Cyberattackers will implement improved skills, “shift left” attacks, and shifting strategies to adjust to evolving cyberdefense.

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‘Unpacking’ technical attribution and challenges for ensuring stability in cyberspace

SecureList

When reports of a cyberattack appear in the headlines, questions abound regarding who launched it and why. The rest of the world, including the victims of the attack, must often engage in some degree of speculation to explain the events and devise ways to protect themselves accordingly.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? But how might it actually happen? And how might we defend ourselves? There’s a classic trope in fiction, that a criminal hacker somehow gets information that allows them or their team to take down a power grid of a major city. Don’t believe me?

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Will $1.9 Billion of Government Funding for Cybersecurity Help Protect the Nation’s Infrastructure?

CyberSecurity Insiders

government taking a more active role in the battle against cybercrime, more needs to be done defensively to protect the private companies that make?up Here’s why: Total global losses from cybercrime in 2021 are estimated to top $6 trillion , with the U.S. A second example is the SolarWinds breach in 2020. billion to ?cybersecurity

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Advanced threat predictions for 2024

SecureList

Amid the global crisis and escalating geopolitical confrontations, these sophisticated cyberattacks are even more dangerous, as there is often more at stake. The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data. A review of last year’s predictions 1.

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