CISA released the 2024 Priorities of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). These priorities will help the group focus on developing effective solutions to cybersecurity challenges. Resulting from the trusted partnerships the collaborative has fostered, the focused goals of the 2024 priorities are to: Defend against Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) …

Ransomware gangs began 2024 slowly, with fewer attacks in various important sectors in January. Ransomware gangs posted fewer victims in January compared to the previous month, with a total of 242 victims. This is the lowest number of victims since February 2023. Attacks on healthcare providers, state and local governments, …

Kenya experienced more than 1.2 billion cyber threats in the three months leading up to December. 123 million threats were detected in the previous quarter, showing a 943% increase from the previous period. The Communications Authority of Kenya’s latest report says that the increase in cyber threats is due to …

State Minister for Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology Junayed Ahmed Palak said that AI powered government brain will be made. He said this at the opening ceremony of the specially abled persons job fair organized under the leadership of Information and Communication Technology Department and under the initiative of Bangladesh …

Banking Trojan developers are always finding new ways to spread malware and infect victims. Kaspersky found a new malware that targets users of over 60 banks in Brazil. It caught the attention because of its advanced infection method using various technologies, different from known banking Trojan infections. The malware uses …

Fortinet warns about a new critical vulnerability in FortiOS SSL VPN that could be used in attacks. The flaw, known as CVE-2024-21762 / FG-IR-24-015, has a severity rating of 9.6. It is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in FortiOS. This vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to execute remote code by using malicious …

Advania, a Nordic IT provider, had a cybersecurity incident affecting at least 60 of its customers in Sweden, including healthcare centers. The company admitted a “security incident” in its public statement. In a statement the company said, “During the afternoon of Tuesday, February 6th, we discovered an anomaly in a …

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Unit at BGD e-GOV CIRT has noticed an increase in cyber-attacks on organizations. These attacks are aimed at compromising third-party service providers. Several organizations in Bangladesh have experienced data breaches. Some individuals employed by third party service providers, tasked with offering technical support to various client …

The UAE Banks Federation (UBF) organized the third “Cyber Wargaming 2024” event to protect the banking sector’s digital infrastructure and provide a secure banking experience for customers. This event is supervised by the Central Bank of the UAE and the UAE Government’s Cyber Security Council. It aims to develop the …

CISA released two advisories on February 6, 2024. They contain important information about security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits related to Industrial Control Systems (ICS). ICSA-24-037-01 HID Global Encoders: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read data from reader configuration cards and credentials. Reader configuration cards contain …