The Targeting of the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain
The world has waited for 10 months for the good news that arrived this week—the first inoculations of the COVID-19 vaccine would be given in the UK within days. Those same 10 months also saw threat actors working to take advantage of the supply chain knowledge void in which governments ... Read More
U.S. Election Security (and Insecurities)
It has been a month since the U.S. 2020 General Election has passed. The election, according to then-Director of CISA Christopher Krebs in mid-November, was the most secure in history with no cases of widespread election fraud. U.S. Attorney General William Barr, echoed Krebs’ belief, noting Dec. 1 that both ... Read More
U.S. Health Care Under Attack
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), have issued a cybersecurity advisory to the U.S. healthcare sector (Alert: AA20-302A) regarding a concerted effort to compromise and take hostage the computer systems of healthcare ... Read More
Inside the DoJ’s GRU Indictments for Cyber Meddling
For the third time in the past two years, the United States has indicted intelligence officers associated with Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), the military intelligence entity of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. A review of the indictment shows the six officers were members ... Read More
HPSCI Takes Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories Hearing Online
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a virtual hearing on the topic of Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories with an august panel of specialists well-steeped in how disinformation and misinformation are created, amplified and consumed. The hearing underscored misinformation and conspiracy as both domestic and international issues with respect ... Read More
The FINCEN Files Leakage
This week began with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) providing a view and analysis into thousands of financial transactions contained within Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) that were leaked from with the U.S. FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network). The ICIJ effort was augmented by old-fashioned research and interviews conducted ... Read More
WeChat Banned, TikTok Saved
The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity surrounding two Chinese apps, TikTok (Bytdance) and WeChat (Tencent) and their ability to continue to have a presence in the United States. The activity hit a crescendo Sept. 18 when the Department of Commerce announced prohibitions affecting the two apps, ... Read More
Election Interference: The Russians Are Back, or They Never Left
Every day brings new revelations on Russia’s strategy of disruption to the west, the United States specifically. As Yogi Berra said, “It is déjà vu all over again”—in December 2017 we wrote it was already “Déjà Vu All Over Again – Russian Active Measures.” The tactics being used by the ... Read More
China: A CCP-Driven Global Threat Actor
The newly released IntSights analytics report, “The Dark Side of China: The Evolution of a Global Cyber Power,” makes the case that the country is a force to be reckoned with. The piece emphasizes the role played by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in unleashing the restrictions within China to ... Read More
eBay Employees Charged With Cyberstalking Critics
eBay’s tumble into an ignoble existence has been fast and furious. This past week we saw six former eBay executives charged with cyberstalking, all of whom had been fired following the company’s August 2019 investigation into allegations they harassed the editor of a newsletter critical of eBay and her husband ... Read More
