The U.S. cyber defense agency issued an operational directive on Thursday mandating federal agencies to “remove any hardware and software devices that is no longer supported by its original equipment manufacturer.”
Russian state-linked hackers are exploiting a Microsoft Office vulnerability to target maritime organizations across Europe as part of a “sophisticated espionage campaign," researchers said.
Customers of the newsletter platform Substack were notified on Wednesday of a breach, following a hacker's claims on the dark web of a trove of stolen data.
Unit 42 tracked the compromise of at least 70 institutions across the 37 countries — with the hackers maintaining access to some victims for months. In one country, the hackers gained access to the parliament and a senior elected official.
In this GCN article, Staffan Truvé, CTO and Co-Founder at Recorded Future, explores how machine learning is speeding the processing of cybersecurity data.