The FBI has published a Public Service Announcement (PSA) warning the public of the potential for fraudulent websites, e-mails, texts, or phone scams aiming to defraud individuals seeking federal student loan forgiveness. Threat actors will seek to solicit personally identifiable information, financial information, or payment from potential victims.
H2OSecCon attendees will have the opportunity on Day Two to actively participate in an afternoon tabletop exercise developed by Dragos for its new OT-CERT (Operational Technology – Cyber Emergency Readiness Team) program. The exercise is a facilitated discussion to provide water and wastewater utility OT and IT staff (operators, engineers, analysts, managers, supervisors, executives, etc.) an opportunity to practice cyber incident response processes and procedures based on an OT-impacting ransomware incident.
For Cybersecurity Awareness Month the key behavior we are highlighting today is using strong passwords. Using strong passwords is one of the key action steps that everyone can implement to increase their cybersecurity posture. Passwords are strong when they are greater than twelve characters.
Last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in partnership with the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Lab released RedEye, an interactive open-source analytic tool for use by network defenders and Red Teams to visualize and report command and control activities.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the following ICS vulnerability advisories, as well as alerts, updates, and bulletins:
ICS Vulnerability Advisories:
The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published guidance offering practical steps to assist medium to large organizations in more confidently assessing and strengthening their supply chain cybersecurity.
Its Fall, the leaves are changing color, and we continue our observance of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This month is intended to engage and educate public and private-sector partners through events and initiatives with the goal of raising awareness about cybersecurity to increase the resiliency of the nation and the critical infrastructure that sustains our communities.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the following ICS vulnerability advisories, as well as alerts, updates, and bulletins:
ICS Vulnerability Advisories:
by Jennifer Lyn Walker
The National Cybersecurity Alliance’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month post this week is on password managers, specifically the risks of using them. For this post, they turned to one of the top security awareness minds, KnowBe4’s Roger Grimes – check out WaterISAC’s January 26, 2022 WaterISAC Cyber Threat Briefing featuring Roger!
Yesterday, VMware's Threat Analysis Unit published a detailed report on the infamous Emotet malware using data gathered from attacks since January 2022. The study’s key findings include that Emotet’s attack patterns are constantly evolving, the malware is modular and can serve a number of attack purposes, Emotet authors are hiding their command and control (C2) infrastructure, and the infrastructure is always shifting.
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