Weekly Security Sprint EP 56. IC3 Report, Information Ops, Religious Holidays, Domestic Threats

In the latest episode of the Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics. Warm Start Healthcare: Health-ISAC: Facing a major incident? Don't navigate it alone. Here's how Health-ISAC's community stepped up during the recent Change Healthcare event. Opinion: Conflicting government cyber mandates risk undermining US security. “Our nation faces a complex range of cyber threats Quote of the week: Risky Biz News: The aftermath of Microsoft's SVR hack is rearing its ugly head. In an update on the same incident posted late Friday afternoon—as is the practice of every respectable corporate company—Microsoft says it found new evidence over the past weeks that the Russian hackers were now weaponizing the stolen information. Main Topics FBI IC3 2023 Internet Crime Report FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks Americans lost a record $12.5 billion to online fraud last year Info Ops: Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S Proliferating 'news' sites spew AI-generated fake stories TAG Bulletin: Q1 2024 AI Tools Are Still Generating Misleading Election Images Fake U.S. local news network exposed as Russia-linked propaganda front: report ElevenLabs Block on Cloning Biden's Voice Easily Bypassed Russian influence operations against Baltic states and Poland having ‘significant impact’ on society A New Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation AI will likely increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report Upcoming Holiday Security Awareness Domestic Threats Inspired Terror: In Video Uploaded To Internet, Teenage Stabber Of Jew In Zürich Swears Allegiance To Islamic State (ISIS), Calls On Muslims To Target Jews And Christians Everywhere Insider Threats: Air Force Employee Indicted for Unlawful Disclosure of Classified National Defense Information. Air National Guardsman Agrees to Plead Guilty to Unlawfully Disclosing Classified National Defense Information. Chinese National Residing in California Arrested for Theft of Artificial Intelligence-Related Trade Secrets from Google Quick Hits 4 tabletop exercises every security team should run. European Environment Agency: Europe is not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks EXECUTIVE SUMMARY European climate risk assessment TH-AL-24-001-EN-N.pdf Ransomware tracker: The latest figures [March 2024] Learning Lessons from The Cyber-Attack: British Library cyber incident review, March 2024 The Week in Ransomware - March 8th 2024 - Waiting for the BlackCat rebrand The clowns and fools behind ransomware attacks BlackCat ransomware shuts down in exit scam, blames the "feds" No security issues as Super Tuesday draws to a close, CISA official says Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Security tips for organizations with remote workers - ITSAP.10.016 UK NPSA: Insider Events - Communications Guidance CISA and NSA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheets on Cloud Security Best Practices European court favors strong encryption, calling it key to privacy rights Update to national cybersecurity strategy implementation plan coming before the end of summer JetBrains TeamCity under attack by ransomware thugs after disclosure mess CISA Adds One Known Exploited JetBrains Vulnerability, CVE-2024-27198, to Catalog International: As gangs attack a critical port, ‘Haiti will go hungry soon’ Tabletop exercise hosted by Europol to disrupt terrorist content online Tesla Berlin Gigafactory to be without power for another week following eco-terrorist attack Germany: Sabotage case launched against Tesla protesters German police carry out raids against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech online Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality Sweden police arrest suspected Islamists believed to prepare attack U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Russia Security Alert: Avoid Large Gatherings over the Next 48 Hours U.S. warns of imminent Moscow attack by 'extremists,' urges citizens to avoi