Phishing campaign spoofs local officials to steal permit fees
The FBI is warning about a phishing scheme in which cybercriminals impersonate city and county officials to solicit fraudulent payments for planning and zoning permits. …
No more soft play, President Trump warns in new cyber strategy
The White House released “President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America,” a policy framework outlining the administration’s priorities for maintaining U.S. leadership in …
Iran-linked APT targets US critical sectors with new backdoors
An Iran-linked hacking group has been active inside the networks of several US organizations since early February, raising concerns that the activity could precede broader …
New cyber module strengthens risk planning for health organizations
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) new cybersecurity module in the Risk Identification and Site Criticality (RISC) 2.0 Toolkit helps …
Ex-L3Harris executive sentenced to 87 months for selling stolen cyber-exploit trade secrets
Peter Williams, a former executive of Trenchant, L3Harris’ cyber division, has been sentenced to 87 months in prison by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., after pleading …
Binding Operational Directive 26-02 sets deadlines for edge device replacement
In this Help Net Security video, Jen Sovada, General Manager, Public Sector at Claroty, explains CISA’s Binding Operational Directive 26-02 and what it means for federal …
Ex-Google engineers charged with orchestrating high-tech secrets extraction
A federal grand jury has indicted three Silicon Valley engineers on charges in a scheme to steal trade secrets from Google and other leading technology companies. The …
Man gets five years for aiding North Korean IT employment scam
Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko, 29, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 5 years in prison for an identity theft scheme that enabled North Korean workers to secure …
Men sentenced to 8 years in $1.3 million computer intrusion and tax fraud scheme
Matthew A. Akande, a Nigerian national, was sentenced by a U.S. District Court to eight years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a …
CISA orders US federal agencies to replace unsupported edge devices
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a new binding operational directive aimed at reducing a long-standing cyber risk across federal networks: …
Incognito dark web drug market operator gets 30 years in prison
Rui-Siang Lin, a Taiwanese national, was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison for operating Incognito Market, one of the world’s largest illicit online narcotics …
Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets
A federal jury in California convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of …
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