22 May 2024
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In this Week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy talked about the topics below. For more of these and other security updates, subscribe to our free daily report, delivered directly to your inbox, the Gate 15 SUN. To subscribe, please email [email protected].
- Information Sharing: A Valuable Tool in Preventing Cyber Attacks
- CISA: Prepared Together – Cyber Storm IX Recap
Main Topics
Physical Threats & Violence
- Gate 15 White Paper: The Hostile Event Attack Cycle (HEAC), 2021 Update
- New Jersey Marine arrested after allegedly making threats to kill White people, ‘began planning’ mass shooting
- Mercer County Man Charged with Communicating Threats to Attack White People
- DOJ: Maryland Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Destroy the Baltimore Region Power Grid
🏳️🌈 U.S. Department of State: Worldwide Caution, 17 May. Due to the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations, or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution. The Department of State is aware of the increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence against LGBTQI+ persons and events and advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution. U.S. citizens should: Stay alert in locations frequented by tourists, including Pride celebrations and venues frequented by LGBTQI+ persons. (continues). State Department warns of ‘increased potential’ for terrorism targeting LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month
Elections, Info Ops, Resources:
- Misinformation perceived as a bigger informational threat than negativity: A cross-country survey on challenges of the news environment
- Sekoia: Master of Puppets: Uncovering the DoppelGänger pro-Russian influence campaign
- Canadian Centre for Cyber Security How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300).
- Opening Statement by CISA Director Jen Easterly at the Update on Foreign Threats to the 2024 Elections Hearing
- US intelligence spotted Chinese, Iranian deepfakes in 2020 aimed at influencing US voters
- 🇨🇳 Chinese Communist Party-linked network behind ‘well-funded’ anti-Israel campus protests
- Contagious Disruption: How CCP Influence and Radical Ideologies Threaten Critical Infrastructure and Campuses Across the United States
- 🇷🇺 Russian Connections to Israel-Gaza Protests
- Charges and Seizures Brought in Fraud Scheme, Aimed at Denying Revenue for Workers Associated with North Korea
- Justice Department Announces Arrest, Premises Search, and Seizures of Multiple Website Domains to Disrupt Illicit Revenue Generation Efforts of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Justice Dept. makes arrests in North Korean identity theft scheme involving thousands of IT workers
Quick Hits
- UK NCSC: Business email compromise: new guidance to protect your organisation
- TLP:CLEAR | FB-ISAO Newsletter.
- Learn about the origins of the word Phishing.
- What you need to know about the Security Awareness products on our blog site.
- So, the FireArms in the House program is coming to an end – what’s next?
- Ransomware & Data Breaches: 🎶 I love it when you call me Black Basta… 🎶
- Iran’s president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site
- Iran president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister dead in helicopter crash, says state media
- Iran Declares Mourning Period As President, Foreign Minister Killed In Helicopter Crash
- Israel insists ‘it wasn’t us’ after ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Iranian president is killed in mysterious helicopter crash a month after ordering missile attack on the Jewish state while Islamic regime supports Hamas in Gaza war
- ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Hamas leaders
- Senators unveil plan to regulate AI, as companies race ahead
- Men accused of plot to attack Jews with machine guns in north-west England
- DHS Announces Creation of the Homeland Intelligence Advisory Board.
- U.S. Attorney’s Office and Law Enforcement Partners Take Action Against Money Mules in Order to Disrupt Transnational Fraud Schemes and Educate Public
- Two Foreign Nationals Arrested for Laundering At Least $73M Through Shell Companies Tied to Cryptocurrency Investment Scams
- Feds nab alleged money launderers for pig butchering scheme
- Senator Vance issues warning on China-backed Volt Typhoon threat to US critical infrastructure
- BreachForums seized by FBI for 2nd time
- 6K-plus AI models may be affected by critical RCE vulnerability
- Tinyproxy (CVE-2023-49606) – Vulnerability Analysis and Exploitation
- British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25 million deepfake scam victim
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- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
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- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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