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- CISA Announces 9th Cyber Storm National Exercise. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is hosting its ninth iteration of the Cyber Storm (CS IX) Cyber Exercise. It’s the nation’s largest cyber exercise designed to improve the cybersecurity posture of our nation’s critical infrastructure. Through extensive planning, this exercise strengthened cybersecurity preparedness and response capabilities through exercising policies, processes, and procedures for identifying and responding to a multi-sector significant cyber incident impacting critical infrastructure. CS IX Cyber Exercise generates lessons learned from previous exercises and real-world incidents and presented participants with a challenging scenario to evaluate their incident response capabilities. CISA is hosting more than 2,000 players from all levels of government, the private sector, and international partners. Participants are using this unique opportunity to work together in their response to a simulated national-level cyber incident, improving coordination mechanisms and relationships. CISA will publish a blog with additional details and results from this Cyber Storm after the event. For more information and resources, visit Cyber Storm IX: National Cyber Exercise | CISA & Cyber Storm IX: National Cyber Exercise | CISA
- FB-ISAO: Best Practices for Securing Your Router / Wi-Fi
- ‘NCSC Cyber Series’ podcast now available on Spotify
Main Topics
The PRC has made it clear that it considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage, and that its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic and break America’s will to resist…
FBI Director Wray
- 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 Director Wray’s Remarks at the Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats 🇨🇳 🇨🇳
- UK: Government cracks down on ‘deepfakes’ creation
- “Proactive De-escalation”
Quick Hits
- 🇷🇺 Russian US election interference targets support for Ukraine after slow start
- Microsoft: Nation-states engage in US-focused influence operations ahead of US presidential election
- Information operations will be ‘foundational’ to future DOD efforts, Cybercom chief says
- How A.I. Tools Could Change India’s Elections
- 🇷🇺 Google: Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm
- 🇷🇺 Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.
- RAND: Generative Artificial Intelligence Threats to Information Integrity and Potential Policy Responses
- Securing Election Infrastructure Against the Tactics of Foreign Malign Influence Operations
- Montgomery Co. student charged with threats of mass violence after police discover disturbing ‘manifesto.’
- CISA and Partners Release Advisory on Akira Ransomware
- FBI: Akira ransomware raked in $42 million from 250+ victims
- 🇷🇺 Hackers Linked to Russia’s Military Claim Credit for Sabotaging US Water Utilities
- FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Strategy to Strengthen Global Health Security
- U.S. Government Global Health Security Strategy 2024 (PDF)
- Undersea ‘hybrid warfare’ threatens security of 1bn, Nato commander warns
- Joint Guidance on Deploying AI Systems Securely
- UK NPSA: Personal Safety and Security for High-Risk Individuals
- 840-bed hospital in France postpones procedures after cyberattack
- Cloudflare: DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1
- Hearing – Held for Ransom: How Ransomware Endangers Our Financial System. See the full hearing video on YouTube.
- Ex-White House cyber official says ransomware payment ban is a ways off
- Top officials again push back on ransomware payment ban
- Change Healthcare’s New Ransomware Nightmare Goes From Bad to Worse
- UnitedHealth Group reports that the Change Healthcare ransomware attack has had an $872 million financial hit on its business so far
- Congress rails against UnitedHealth Group after ransomware attack
- AHA testifies at hearing on health care cybersecurity
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