Category Security

Chinese Threat Group Compromises US Government

Microsoft has uncovered another Chinese cyber espionage operation that compromised at least 25 organizations, including the US government. The tech giant began investigating suspicious email activity following a customer report on June 16. It was later discovered that a Chinese…

Mandiant Unveils Russian GRU’s Cyber Playbook Against Ukraine

Mandiant has used a trail of destructive Russian-backed operations against Ukraine since February 2022 to invade neighboring Ukraine, with multiple different Russian threat clusters to pursue Russia’s intelligence-conflict objectives. observed the persistent use of the same repeatable strategy throughout the…

New CVSS Version Unveiled Amid Rising Cyber Threats

A new version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS 4.0) was made generally available by the Incident Response Security Team Forum (FIRST) on July 13, 2023. CVSS is an open industry standard for rating the severity of security vulnerabilities…

US on Track For Record Number of Data Breaches

A major nonprofit has warned that this year could set another record for data breaches after 951 publicly reported incidents in the second quarter. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has tracked publicly reported data breaches and breaches since 2005.…