The House Oversight and Reform Committee today advanced its version of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2022, which entails cybersecurity updates for federal civilian agencies. The bipartisan measure was sent to the full House on a voice vote.
Of the $5.6 billion obtained by the Department of Justice in civil settlements and judgements involving false claims and fraud against the U.S. government in 2021, more than $5 billion - or nearly 90% - involved healthcare sector entities. Why? Healthcare fraud, including false claims.
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Russia's threat to Ukraine is reshaping notions of what it means to employ cyber operations as part of a conflict. If Russian military forces do invade, experts warn that cyberattacks meant to support military operations and disrupt critical infrastructure may not be restricted to Ukrainian targets.
Democratic lawmakers outlined several provisions of the proposed America COMPETES Act, a measure to counter anti-competitive actions taken by China. Crypto advocates were quick to criticize one measure they say could have caused privacy and due process concerns. The language has now been amended.
With tensions mounting in Ukraine, U.S. cybersecurity officials have grown increasingly concerned over the threat of direct cyberwarfare. As such, the U.S. has dispatched its top cyber official, Deputy National Security Adviser Anne Neuberger, to Europe to discuss the Russian threat.
The European Systemic Risk Board has proposed a new systemic cyber incident coordination framework called EU-SCICF. This framework will be designed to counter any major cross-border cyber incidents in the financial sector space with a coordinated response.
As ransomware and other disruptive security incidents continue to surge, cyberattacks rank as the top health technology hazard in hospital environments this year, say security experts Chad Waters and Juuso Leinonen of patient safety organization ECRI.
In just a month, the BlackCat cybercrime group has carried out high-impact ransomware attacks on international organizations and risen to seventh place in Unit 42's ranking of global ransomware groups. A key factor, researchers say: the use of the Rust language for coding its malware.
In 2021, there were 1,862 data compromises - a 68% increase over 2020, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center's Annual Data Breach Report. "In this past year, there were more cyberattack-related data breaches than there were all forms of data breaches in 2020," says ITRC COO James E. Lee.
In a report published Monday, Symantec's Threat Hunter Team outlines a specific Russian cyberespionage campaign conducted on a Ukrainian network in 2021 - which comes as Russia has amassed 100,000 or more troops at Ukraine's eastern border while it reportedly mulls invasion
U.S. authorities have mixed news for the healthcare and public health sector. The good news: The threat level posed by ransomware-as-a-service gang BlackMatter is reduced. The bad news: Other cybercriminals will undoubtedly fill the gap - if they haven't already.
North Korean advanced persistent threat group Lazarus - an entity sanctioned by the U.S. and the United Nations - has emerged with a fresh spear-phishing campaign that exploits Windows Updates to execute a malicious payload, using GitHub as a command-and-control server.
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