Marines Reactivate Guam Base to Boost Pacific Footprint
Camp Blaz will become a “strategic hub” and a joint and allied training center.
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Hackers Use RMM Software to Breach Federal Agencies
Cybercriminals recently breached U.S. federal agencies using remote monitoring and management (RMM) software as part of a widespread campaign. The malicious campaign began in June 2022 or earlier and was detected a few months later, according to an advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the […]
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Today’s D Brief: ISIS official killed in Somalia; New missile sub delayed; US widens Wagner sanctions; Crime rate falls; And a bit more.
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Next Missile Sub ‘Facing Delays’ Due to Design, Materials, and Quality, GAO Says
Electric Boat is pulling workers from the Virginia program to help the Columbia effort, but at unknown risks to cost and schedule, the watchdog wrote in a new report.
Threat Groups Distributing Malware via Google Ads
Security researchers are warning that Google Ads are being actively leveraged to distribute malware to unsuspecting victims searching for software downloads. On January 20, CronUp researcher Germán Fernández warned that the DEV-0569 ransomware group is using Google Ads to distribute Gozi/Ursnif malware, RedLine stealer, and Royal ransomware. “For deployment, they use Add-MpPreference to configure exclusions […]
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Today’s D Brief: More tanks to Ukraine; Kyiv eyes fighter jets; Election deniers atop HASC; New USMC base in Guam; And a bit more.
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Today’s D Brief: Germany OKs tank transfer; US announcement expected; Strategy change?; Raytheon reorg; And a bit more.
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What makes small and medium-sized businesses vulnerable to BEC attacks
According to the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report, business email compromise (BEC) accounted for almost a third of the country’s $6.9 billion in cyber losses that year – around $2.4 billion. In surprisingly sharp contrast, ransomware attacks accounted …
Cybercriminals Use VSCode Extensions as New Attack Vector
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code integrated development environment (IDE) is used by as much as 75% of developers, so any security issue has widespread implications. And Aqua Nautilus researchers have discovered a big one. The researchers reported earlier this month that the VSCode editor could be vulnerable to attacks targeting its extensions. The free open source […]
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Today’s D Brief: Poland formally requests German tanks for Kyiv; Stoltenberg in Berlin; China’s missing missile; Erdogan chills NATO expansion bids; And a bit more.
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