Robert Lemos

Iran's 'Cyber Centers' Dodge Sanctions to Sell Cyber Operations Networks of Iranian officials and cyber-offensive specialists have created a variety of cybersecurity contractors in an attempt to dodge sanctions, according to leaked documents.

An interesting report connecting leaked information on contractors in Iran with the government agencies and cyberattack groups. www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...

CISA's Water Sector Guide Puts Incident Response Front & Center As cyberattackers increasingly target water suppliers and wastewater utilities, the US federal government wants to help limit the impact of destructive attacks.

Water and wastewater utilities are critical to our communities, but they have to run on limited budget, and that means limiting security costs. As attackers increasingly target this infrastructure, CISA has released guidance for incident response.

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Researchers Map AI Threat Landscape, Risks With the rush to adopt large language models, companies have not thought through all the security implications to their businesses. Two groups of researchers tackle the questions.

With the rapid rise of generative AI, we are still trying to get a handle on what the threat landscape looks like and what labels are most appropriate for which threats.

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Magecart Adds Middle East Retailers to Long List of Victims Cybercriminals who conspire to put credit-card skimmers on e-commerce sites have hit some large vendors in the region.

Card-skimming attacks, also called Magecart attacks, have focused on the US and Europe, but some retailers in the Middle East and South Asia are inadvertently hosting malicious code.

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Microsoft: Iran's Mint Sandstorm APT Blasts Educators, Researchers The Charming Kitten-related cyber-espionage group is posing as legitimate journalists and researchers to get intel on the Israel-Hamas war.

Social-engineering is a key strength of the Iran-linked Mint Sandstorm group.

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Since I just joined up, I thought I would post my articles from the last week.

While cyber insurance premiums came down in 2023, insurers paid out more claims that year, so expect policy costs to rise in 2024.

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