In its continued effort to keep the industry apprised of threats facing companies in the U.S., CISA recently issued a Cybersecurity Advisory: 2022 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities that is helpful to get up to speed on top threats, emerging threats, and intelligence of vulnerabilities being exploited by threat actors. It also provides recommendations to
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CISA Lists Top CVEs Exploited by Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Actors
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The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued an Alert outlining the top Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that have been used by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actors since 2020.
According to the Alert, these threat actors “continue to exploit known vulnerabilities to actively target U.S. and allied networks as…
CISA Issues Guidance on Protecting Organizations’ Social Media Accounts
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued guidance on protecting the security of organizations’ social media accounts to reduce the risk of unauthorized access to those accounts.
The guidance, entitled The Capacity Enhancement Guide (CEG): Social Media Account Protection, provides tips for organizations to protect social media accounts from malicious cyber actors. CISA…
FBI Issues Cyber-Attack Alert Against Tokyo Olympics Service Providers
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On July 19, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a Private Industry Notification to service providers and “entities associated with the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics that cyber actors who wish to disrupt the event could use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, ransomware, social engineering, phishing campaigns, or insider threats to block or disrupt…