LockBit Honcho Faces Sanctions, With Aussie Org Ramifications
Australian businesses and individuals now face government fines and consequences for paying ransoms or interacting with assets owned by LockBitSupp, aka Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
Wiz Announces $1B Funding Round, Plans More M&A
Much of the funding will be used for product development and talent acquisition to cover more ground as the cybersecurity industry continues to evolve.
ZDNET reports that artificial intelligence has been believed by 85% of U.S. private and public sector employees to be associated with more advanced cyberattacks, while 78% expressed worry regarding AI exploitation in cyberattacks.
Shortcomings of updated US critical infrastructure defense policy evaluated
While the Biden administration has tweaked an Obama-era critical infrastructure defense policy to reflect the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, such an update's failure to expand the scope of critical infrastructure to include cloud computing...
Major U.S. nonprofit healthcare provider MedStar had the personal data of 183,000 patients compromised following a months-long data breach last year, according to Cybernews.