Cyberthreat News – What’s New in Cybersecurity?
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Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated, targeted and frequent. As a result, organizations need to stay up-to-date with the latest attack methodologies and threat intelligence. By doing so, security teams can detect attacks sooner and even prevent some from ever happening. This is the purpose of a well-defined threat intelligence program, which includes an iterative and ongoing process by which security analysts set intelligence requirements with stakeholders in their organization.
January 2024: The Australian government identified and sanctioned the Russian hacker responsible for breaching Medibank, the country’s largest private health insurance provider, in 2022. The breach compromised personal information, such as birth dates and social security numbers, of nearly 33 million current and former customers.
June 2024: Germany’s main opposition party suffered a cyberattack just ahead of European Parliamentary elections, but the extent of the damage is unclear. The party briefly took down parts of its IT service as a precaution.
November 2023: Chinese hackers penetrated the networks of a Philippine government department through phishing campaigns that imbed malware. The department shut down its systems, but says the espionage campaign did not compromise critical rocket and satellite operations information.
Cybersecurity professionals face a growing number of threats, including Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). These are long-term cyberattacks in which hackers gain unauthorized access to an organization’s network and remain undetected for extended periods of time. For example, APT29—also known as Midnight Blizzard—is a well-documented cyber espionage group that is linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.