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Fischbach and Alan Ross, chief architect at Forcepoint's X-Labs, champion a different solution: Indicators of Behavior. "IOBs are behaviors that are monitored to understand risk within an organization," Ross said in his article Indicators of Behavior-With 2020 Vision.
Suppose the polling-place optical scanners had been hacked. Then this would have been detected in the audit, and Georgia would have been able to recover by doing a full recount.
A publicly exposed cloud storage bucket was found to contain images of hundreds of passports and identity documents belonging to journalists and volleyball players from around the world. Reverse-image searches for headshots revealed that these well-known European volleyball players were either directly associated with CEV or were part of a volleyball team or federation affiliated with the CEV. BleepingComputer also found some of CEV's assets in the bucket, such as branding images with CEV logos on them.
A publicly exposed cloud storage bucket was found to contain images of hundreds of passports and identity documents belonging to journalists and volleyball players from around the world. Reverse-image searches for headshots revealed that these well-known European volleyball players were either directly associated with CEV or were part of a volleyball team or federation affiliated with the CEV. BleepingComputer also found some of CEV's assets in the bucket, such as branding images with CEV logos on them.
Two French citizens and a Moroccan went on trial in Paris on Monday charged with planning attacks after their cyber network was successfully infiltrated by a French intelligence agent posing as a jihadist. The agent from France's DGSI domestic intelligence service, using the codename Ulysse, had infiltrated communication networks of Islamic State group jihadists in a ruse that led to the arrest of the three.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning of scammers actively posing as FBI representatives and threatening targets with fines and jail time unless they don't hand out personal and/or financial information. As the FBI warns, the agency has received multiple reports of such scam attempts where the fraudsters are targeting North Florida residents attempting to steal their personal info.
The proprietors of the phishing service were variously known on cybercrime forums under handles such as SMSBandits, "Gmuni," "Bamit9," and "Uncle Munis." SMS Bandits offered an SMS phishing service for the mass sending of text messages designed to phish account credentials for different popular websites and steal personal and financial data for resale. Sasha Angus is a partner at Scylla Intel, a cyber intelligence startup that did a great deal of research into the SMS Bandits leading up to the arrest.
The cybercriminals behind the Fonix ransomware have announced plans to shut down their activity, and have already released the master decryption key for the malware. Also known as FonixCrypter and Xonif, the ransomware has been operating since June 2020, with several variants observed since.
Collaboration is a hallmark of successful security teams. Managers of all the security teams can see the analysis unfolding, which allows them to act when and how they need to, coordinating tasks between teams and monitoring timelines and results.
How he'll handle the logistics of the case could feel old school: Under new court rules, he'll have to print out any highly sensitive documents and hand-deliver them to the courthouse. The new rules for filing sensitive documents are one of the clearest ways the hack has affected the court system.