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NBC News reports that the U.S. has agreed to release convicted Russian hackers Vladimir Klyushin and Roman Seleznev, along with eight others, in exchange for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and other American political prisoners held by Russia.

"The United States and like-minded nations will explore options for advancing affirmative cybersecurity standards and coordinating other possible policy measures to mitigate risks," said the U.S. State Department in a statement regarding the meeting, which did not specify attendance by automakers.

Despite repeatedly proclaiming the robustness of Falcon, CrowdStrike has not properly evaluated anti-threat updates prior to release leading to the widespread disruption, claimed the Massachusetts-based Plymouth County Retirement Association in its lawsuit.

Aside from failing to perform risk assessments for the water and wastewater sector, the EPA has not also determined cybersecurity-related objectives, goals, activities, and performance measurements, as well as key roles and efforts coordination measures for the industry.

Despite the elevated detections, workarounds may have already been applied in some VMware ESXi instances, according to The Shadowserver Foundation.

Threat actors who created StackExchange accounts commented on popular threads with high-quality answers that included links to the packages, including 'spl-types,' 'sol-structs,' 'sol-instruct,' 'raydium,' and 'raydium-sdk,' which facilitated the download of scripts enabling browser, messaging app, and cryptocurrency wallet data exfiltration.

While most of the intrusions involved websites spoofing a leading e-commerce platform and power tools maker, as well as fake sales offers for widely used products, attackers also leveraged fake Facebook user comments to facilitate the scheme.

When natural disasters or cyberattacks strike, communications are often the first to be impacted. In response, Cisco NERVs are on 24/7 standby for rapid deployment, providing advanced and secure communications for emergency responders during disaster recovery.

Domains impacted by attacks with Sitting Ducks, which involves the exploitation of domain registrar and authoritative DNS provider misconfigurations and lame delegation, have been leveraged to facilitate various traffic distribution systems, sextortion scams, and fake bomb threats.

Intrusions commenced with the delivery of tax-themed phishing emails with attachments or links redirecting to an LNK payload, which executes either BAT or CMD scripts that result in the PowerShell and Python installer deployment before installing the RATs.