The South Korean government, the U.S. Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory against North Korean hacker group Kimsuky. Authorities warned that Kimsuky, also known as Thallium, APT43, Velvet Chollima and Black Banshe, has been impersonating journalists and academics for spear-phishing campaigns. The hacker […]
President Joe Biden is set to nominate Army Maj. Gen. William Hartman as the next deputy of U.S. Cyber Command in a major overhaul of the agency’s leadership, according to a news report. Hartman, the commander of Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force since 2019, was nominated for his third star on Tuesday, according to […]
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly has called on technology experts and the makers of artificial intelligence to consider self-regulation to prevent an extinction event for humanity while the government puts a regulatory framework in place. At an Axios event on Wednesday, Easterly warned of the security risks posed by generative AI as […]
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike announced that it has secured Department of Defense Impact Level 5 provisional authorization. IL5 is DOD’s highest security classification for controlled unclassified information, which can include mission support and national security services details. The new status enables the department’s national security systems, the intelligence community and federal agencies to use CrowdStrike’s Falcon […]
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is inviting expert hackers to join the Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Network Defenses competition. Under the ReSCIND competition, IARPA will fund the most promising software proposals that will study and exploit the psychological weaknesses and cognitive vulnerabilities of hackers in a bid to build the capabilities of defenders against […]
The Department of State is pushing for the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702, which allows the intelligence community to collect electronic communications content from non-U.S. persons to acquire foreign intelligence information. At a Center for Strategic and International Studies event, Brett Holmgren, the assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of […]
The Department of Defense has submitted its classified 2023 cyber strategy to Congress. The document is in line with the 2022 National Defense Strategy and complements the 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy. An unclassified version will be released in the coming months, the Department of Defense said. According to a fact sheet, the cyber strategy is […]
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors will accept additional cyber efforts from the start of the fiscal year 2024. PEO IEW&S will absorb defensive cyber operations, cyber analytics and detection, cyber platforms and systems and the technology applications office. The aforementioned efforts are currently associated with the PEO Enterprise […]
Cybersecurity authorities from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn information technology professionals and organization managers on the primary tactics, techniques and procedures of China-based state-sponsored cyber actor Volt Typhoon that are typically focused on espionage and information gathering. The authorities have recently discovered a cluster of activities of […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released Special Publication 800-216, a framework for setting policies relating to system vulnerability disclosure, assessment and management. Titled “Recommendations for Federal Vulnerability Disclosure Guidelines,” the document is also meant to address how information about security weaknesses in government information systems is received and disseminated to other agencies […]
