Help Net Security newsletters: Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here!

Please turn on your JavaScript for this page to function normally.

critical infrastructure

China
Volt Typhoon targeted enterprise control planes via ever-changing “Silent Train” relay network

Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored APT group that’s focused on cyberespionage and United States’ critical infrastructure, has been using a covert, constantly …

CISA
CISA lays out plan to push cyber adversaries out of US critical infrastructure

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released CISA 2030: Defend, Harden, Prevail, a strategy to strengthen national security and the resilience of …

undersea cable
UK proposes 14-year jail terms for subsea cable saboteurs

Damaging a cable on the seabed off the UK coast could soon cost someone 14 years of their life behind bars, under plans the British government published this week. The …

critical infrastructure cyber safety
Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab

Booz Allen set frontier AI models against an isolated industrial-control testbed in its Chantilly, Virginia lab and watched them clear all eight attack objectives it had …

botnet
FBI disrupts Flax Typhoon hacking tools used in global cyberattacks

The FBI seized seven domains used to operate Microscan and FishHub, two hacking tools linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as Flax Typhoon that were used to target …

Europe
Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe

Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU …

MATCHBOIL
What is MATCHBOIL? The Russia-aligned malware that installs a spying backdoor

ESET researchers traced almost two years of changes to MATCHBOIL, a downloader that the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 uses to plant a second program on Windows machines in …

critical infrastructure
Even with OT network visibility, critical infrastructure operators struggle with legacy equipment

Large critical infrastructure operators run seven separate security tools on average, and most still cannot see every asset on their operational technology (OT) networks. That …

critical infrastructure
Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator?

By early August, attackers had hit water systems in at least seven U.S. states. The FBI and EPA said the intruders remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic …

door
CISA wants critical infrastructure orgs and smaller security teams to start using cyber decoys

Cyber deception has long been the domain of well-resourced security teams, but CISA’s latest guidance, titled “Using Cyber Decoys to Strengthen Detection and …

data breach
CenterPoint Energy confirms data breach following claims on hacking forum

CenterPoint Energy disclosed that an unauthorized third party got into customer data through one of its external systems, after online claims by a hacker that millions of …

industrial network
Turn it off and on again, but for critical infrastructure

Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology built a container replica of a segmented industrial network, attacked it repeatedly across 14 days of running time, and used …

Don't miss

Cybersecurity news
Daily newsletter sent Monday-Friday
Weekly newsletter sent on Mondays
Editor's choice newsletter sent twice a month
Periodical newsletter released for important security events and breaking news
Weekly newsletter listing new cybersecurity job positions
Monthly newsletter focusing on open source cybersecurity tools