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The FBI and other federal agencies created a webpage that includes statements about hostile foreign government actors seeking to influence the US election process by spreading fake news, using distributed denial of service attacks and other tactics. This page also highlights resources for defending against these efforts.

Security professionals are keeping up with the latest threat news, including new attacks and breaches involving medical devices, transportation management systems, phishing attacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the latest developments:

March 2023: Hackers breached the transportation management system of a major consumer goods company, wiping out the company’s data and slowing down operations. The attackers then asked the company to pay a ransom to retrieve the data, but the company refused and reported the incident to law enforcement authorities.

September 2022: Iranian hackers attacked Albanian computer systems, disrupting government services and causing the country to temporarily shut down its Total Information Management System, which tracks people entering and exiting the nation. This attack followed the country severing diplomatic ties with Iran and American and NATO condemnation of an earlier Iranian attack.

November 2022: Chinese state-affiliated hackers targeted public and private organizations across Europe and Asia in a new espionage campaign. The hackers injected malware platforms directly into computers’ memory, bypassing native security solutions.

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