Cybercriminals are carrying out targeted attacks against companies around the world utilizing a shotgun approach with many different types of malware. Cybereason’s researchers determined 500,000 + workstations are infected around the world. Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, today announced that its Nocturnus research team released its newest research findings The Hole in […]

By the end of September, the Defense Department will require at least some companies bidding on defense contracts to certify that they meet at least a basic level of cybersecurity standards when responding to a request for proposals. DOD released its new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification today, billed by the undersecretary of defense for acquisition […]

Paying off hackers after a ransomware infection could end up being a total loss, according to a study released Thursday which finds some attackers just take the money and run. A survey by researchers at the security firm Proofpoint found that 33 percent of organizations infected with ransomware opted to pay the ransom. But some […]

The United States pressed France on Wednesday to take “strong security measures” against potential breaches from 5G services provided by Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, saying failure to do so could imperil intelligence exchanges. Concerns about Huawei’s 5G rollout topped the agenda of a third US-France cybersecurity meeting, Washington’s top cyber diplomat Robert Strayer told reporters […]

The US military claims to have “successfully” disrupted the online propaganda efforts of the Islamic State in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016, according to declassified national security documents released Tuesday. The heavily redacted, previously top secret documents said the US Cyber Command “successfully contested ISIS in the information domain” and limited […]

RESEARCH Triangle Park: As the U.S. Army increasingly uses facial and object recognition to train artificial intelligent systems to identify threats, the need to protect its systems from cyberattacks becomes essential. An Army project conducted by researchers at Duke University and led by electrical and computer engineering faculty members Dr. Helen Li and Dr. Yiran […]

Iran is widely expected to ramp up cyberattacks against the United States in response to the US killing of a top Iranian leader this month even as fears have receded about a military confrontation between the two countries. The simmering tensions since the US drone attack that killed Qasem Soleimani, who was by some measures […]

U.S. military forces require resilient and reliable networks, information, and weapons systems to conduct effective operations. However, both the number and sophistication of threats in cyberspace are rapidly growing, making it critical to improve the cybersecurity of all Department of Defense systems in order to counter those threats and assure the DoD’s missions. The Cyber […]

As part of its tactical network modernization strategy, the Army has begun development, integration and Soldier-driven assessments to determine whether integrating commercial off-the-shelf solutions could support the potential use of software-defined networking in tactical military environments. Similar to the way cloud computing improves capability by moving data storage from a device to a centralized data […]

The Army is launching Project Sentinel to adapt the current Risk Management Framework (RMF) process into a streamlined threat-informed risk decision process. The Army adopted the Risk Management Framework in 2015. Since then, as has been the case in other Services, the process has been wrought with challenges including training, time to execute, number of […]