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CISA’s ‘CI Fortify’ Aims to Secure Critical Infrastructure During Conflicts
Jeffrey Burt | | China-nexus cyber espionage, CISA Advisory, Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, CyberAv3ngers, energy and utilities, Iran cyber capabilities, network segmentation, public water systems, Salt Typhoon, Telecommunications Security, Volt Typhoon, zero trust
CISA in its "Fortify CI" effort is warning critical infrastructure organizations like those in such sectors as energy, water, telecommunication, and healthcare about cyber threats that come with geopolitical conflicts and urging ...
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U.S. Officials Consider Three-Day Patch Rule in Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos
Jeffrey Burt | | AI cyber threats, Anthropic Mythos, BeyondTrust, cisa, ColorTokens, frontier AI models, Merlin Group, OpenAI GPT-5.4-Cyber, Project Glasswing, Vulnerability Management, vulnerability patching, White House
Reuters reported that U.S. cybersecurity officials are weighing cutting the time federal agencies have to fix critical vulnerabilities from two weeks to three days after Anthropic's Mythos AI model raises the specter ...
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ShinyHunters Claims Responsibility for Breach of EdTech Company Instructure
Jeffrey Burt | | API Keys, cybersecurity education, Data breach, data extortion, data leak site, Instructure, Kaspersky Lab, Salesforce, ShinyHunters, social engineering
The prolific extortion group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach of Edtech vendor Instructure's systems, stealing 3.65 TB of sensitive information, including names, email addresses, and messages of students, teachers, and others ...
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U.S. Consumers Lost $2.1 Billion in Social Media Scams in 2025, FTC Says
Jeffrey Burt | | facebook, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Fortra, Instagram, Investment Scams, Meta, romance scams, Social Media Scams, WhatsApp
An FTC report says that Americans last year lost $2.1 billion in social media scams, such as shopping and investment schemes. Social media site have become the place where most of these ...
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Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud certified in AV-TEST Advanced Threat Protection for Windows
In the latest AV-TEST Advanced Threat Protection test, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud earned a perfect 35 out of 35 protection score, qualifying the product for an official “Advanced Approved Endpoint Protection” badge ...
ADT Breach Exposes Data of 5.5 Million Customers, ShinyHunters Likely Behind Attack
Jeffrey Burt | | ADT, cyber extortion, Data breach, Have I Been Pwnd, Okta, Phishing, phishing kits, ShinyHunters, Silent Push, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, vishing as a service
The ShinyHunters extortion group is claiming responsibility for a breach of home and commercial security vendor ADT that exposed the data of 5.5 million customers. attack appears to be part of a ...
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China-Backed Groups are Using Massive Botnets in Espionage, Intrusion Campaigns
Jeffrey Burt | | BeyondTrust, Botnet Attack, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber espionage, CISA Advisory, Flax Typhoon, IoT botnets, SOHO and IoT device vulnerabilities, Viakoo Labs, Volt Typhoon
China-sponsored threat groups like Salt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon are increasingly relying on multiple massive botnets comprising edge and IoT devices to run their cyber espionage and network intrusion campaigns, CISA and ...
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What is Bring Your Own Encryption (BYOE)?
Janki Mehta | | Bring your own encryption (BYOE), Cloud Security, encryption, How BYOE Works, Single-tenant vs BYOE
Introduction to BYOE Against the backdrop of organizations undergoing massive adoption of cloud services, it is critical to protect information from unauthorized access. The fact remains that most of the cloud service ...
DigiCert G1 Root Removal 2026: What It Means, Risks & Action Plan for Your TLS Infrastructure
DigiCert G1 Retirement 2026: A Turning Point in Web PKI Evolution Mozilla and Google Chrome will revoke the G1 root certificates of DigiCert on April 15, 2026. When the certificate you are ...
OpenAI Follows Anthropic in Limiting Access to Its Cyber-Focused Model
Jeffrey Burt | | AI Cybersecurity, AI models security risks, Anthropic Mythos, BeyondTrust, cloud security alliance, exploitable vulnerability detection, OpenAI GPT-5.4-Cyber, OpenAI TAC, Project Glasswing, software-vulnerabilities
OpenAI announced its GPT-5.4-Cyber AI model that echoes Anthropic's Mythos: It can quickly detected vulnerabilities in software but, in the wrong hands, can also make it easy to develop exploits against them ...
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