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Outlining the wider organization's proactive role in fortifying the security program allows the security team to focus on the most pressing issues that only they can solve.

Intel works closely with academic researchers on hardware flaws and coordinates efforts with other vendors to roll out fixes for emerging vulnerabilities. That wasn't always the case.

CyberScoop reports that House lawmakers have been urged by IT, banking, and oil and natural gas industry representatives to streamline cybersecurity regulations amid the presence of duplicative, inconsistent, and conflicting rules.

Investigation into the incident, which may have been caused by a successful phishing attack, is still underway, reported officials, who noted that the recovery of impacted law enforcement systems is being prioritized.

Such a vulnerability stems from impacted devices' usage of an American Megatrends International-generated Platform Key with the "DO NOT TRUST" tag that the vendors should have replaced, according to a report from the Binarly Research Team.

Information exposed by the hacking incident revealed not only all devices infected with Spytech spyware, most of which were Windows PCs, but also their unencrypted activity logs.

Identification of the critical arbitrary code execution bugs, tracked as CVE-2024-4879 and CVE-2024-5217, as well as the medium severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-5178, has been followed by widespread network scanning for vulnerable instances.

Intrusions involved the use of the domain, crowdstrike-office365[.]com, to lure users into downloading a recovery tool purportedly addressing update-related boot loop issues but delivers a malware loader.

Attacks against defense and government organizations worldwide have enabled APT45 to steal information regarding missiles and missile defense systems, nuclear power plants, radar systems, fighter aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellites, among others, an analysis from Mandiant revealed.

Ransoms extorted by Rim and his co-conspirators from healthcare providers across the U.S. have been leveraged to support additional attacks against the country's government organizations and foreign defense contractors.