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Is Digital Advertising the ‘Mother of All Money Laundries?’

Online ad fraud cost global brands and media companies $42 billion in 2019. Losses are projected to approach $100 billion worldwide by 2023, according to UK-based consultants Juniper Research. The integrity of the digital advertising industry has never been more in doubt. Just as the U.S. Treasury singled out fraud as the leading predicate crime…
Meet the New Boss: Context on Cybersecurity and US Federal Leadership

Noted cybersecurity expert Mike Tanji provides context on what to expect from the cybersecurity actions and policies of the Biden Administration. His insights are based on thirty years in the field. He cautions us all to maintain a level of hope, but to not get too worked up about transitions and talk of change. Everyone…
The Naval Services new “Advantage at Sea” Strategy

Last month, the Secretary of the Navy released an interesting and informative document called “ADVANTAGE at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power”. This strategy is aligned with the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) concepts discussed in separate OODA posts, and it combines the interests and intentions of all three Service Chiefs (Navy,…
If SolarWinds Is a Wake-Up Call, Who’s Really Listening?

As the U.S. government parses through the Solar Winds software supply chain breach, many questions still remain as to the motive, the entities targeted, and length of time suspected nation state attackers remained intrenched unseen by the victims. The attack stands at the apex of similar breaches in not only the breadth of organizations compromised…
The Army Role in Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)

As an adopter of JADC2, Army will play a critical role in visioning the all-domain command and control network of the future. Each iteration will be more robust than the current one. Future versions of JADC2 will need to incorporate more advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning, better all-domain data management and unmanned-manned teaming scenarios.
Considerations On What the Capital Storming May Mean For Your Strategy

The 6 January 2021 Capital Storming may be one of the most recorded events in history. Indications are that this is not just a news event, it will have repercussions across society, and its impact may well include a need to change your business strategy. The time to start thinking through that is now.
OODA Network Interview: Paul Becker

This post is based on an interview with RADM Paul Becker, CEO of The Becker T3 Group. It is part of our series of interviews of OODA Network members. Our objective with these interviews is to provide actionable information of interest to the community, including insights that can help with your own career progression. We…
What Executive’s Need To Know About The White House’s New Space Policy

White House released the National Space Policy, declaring that we must maintain “unfettered access to, and freedom to operate in, space” as a vital National interest. This policy commits the United States to following six guiding principles. This post captured relevant parts of this strategy in a way that can help inform your strategy.
OODA Loop Greatest Hits – 2020 Edition

Each year we compile a list of our top posts based on page views. It provides interesting insight into what topics were top of mind for our Members. Obviously, Covid was a key interest area, but we also saw heavy interest in cyber and security, as well as a resurgence in older pieces that provided…
Matt Devost Provides Context on the Top 10 Security, Technology, and Business Books of 2020

In this OODAcast, Bob Gourley and Matt Devost discuss Matt’s picks for the Top 10 Security, Technology, and Business Books of the year. Now in its 5th year, Matt’s top ten book list is one of the most popular posts of the year and we look forward to interviewing several of the authors on OODAcast…
Russian Espionage Campaign: SolarWinds

The SolarWinds hacks have been described in every media outlet and new source, making this incident perhaps the most widely reported cyber incident to date. This report provides context on this incident, including the “so-what” of the incident and actionable insights into what likely comes next.
Expert Practitioner Junaid Islam Discusses 5G Security and Functionality at OODAcon

Junaid Islam has 30 years of experience in secure communications. His protocols, algorithms and architectures have been incorporated into a broad range of commercial and national security systems. In the 90s he developed the first implementation of Multi-Level Precedence and Preemption (MLPP) for US Department of Defense C2 applications. He developed the first working Mobile…
Can Hacker SIGINT Help Buy-Side Firms Generate Alpha?

As buy-side firms increasingly consume alternative data to glean the next trading edge, options strategies that accurately predict the cyber-risk of investment targets could unleash a wave of alpha for short sellers, threat-intelligence experts say. Short sellers, or investors that place bets on the price of an asset declining, trade by purchasing ‘put’ options or…
OODAcast: Juan Enriquez On Technology, Ethics and the Future

Juan Enriquez has succeeded as a businessman, academic, author and lecturer. For those who might not have met him via any of his many appearances and presentations, he can be succinctly described as an authority on the economic and political impacts of life sciences and a thinker able to help frame the much needed discussions…
The Navy Role in Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)

All of DoD will embrace JADC2 – resistance is futile. The Air Force is the main architect, and the Army is gratefully climbing onboard, seeing an advantage to jumping in early and adopting lessons learned for Army advantages. Meanwhile, the Navy has been doing “JADC2-Like” operations for decades. Navy will make sure all their existing…

Briefs

Female popes? Google’s amusing AI bias underscores a serious problem.

On Friday morning, when I first sat down to write this column, Google’s new Gemini AI was having problems that seemed mostly amusing. The internet had discovered that it would generally refuse to create pictures of any all-White groups, even in situations where it was clearly called for, such as “draw a picture of Nazis.”…
Gulf Region Accelerates Adoption of Zero Trust

Zero-trust security adoption will increase 10x in the Gulf region by the end of 2025. Critical infrastructure industries in the region are leading the way, including finance, oil and gas companies. It is estimated that 10% of large enterprises in the region will have comprehensive zero-trust programs in place in the next two years. A…
UAC-0184 Targets Ukrainian Entity in Finland With Remcos RAT

Threat actor UAC-0184 has used steganography techniques to deliver the Remcos RAT via a new malware known as the IDAT Loader to a Ukrainian target in Finland. The adversary initially targeted entities in Ukraine, however defenses thwarted the delivery of the payload. The alternate targets were then targeted. There were parallel campaigns allegedly by UAC-0148…
China Launches New Cyber-Defense Plan for Industrial Networks

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a new strategy for data security improvement in the nation’s industrial sector. The goal is to contain major risks and threats to the industrial sector by the end of 2026. The MIIT will implement protective measures that will be applied to more than 45,000 companies. The ministry…
Oil spill spreads across Caribbean from Tobago to Bonaire

Oil is leaking from a capsized barge off of the coast of Tobago and has spread across hundreds of miles to the island of Bonaire. Bonaire is located 50 miles north of the Venezuelan coast and officials there have said the oil poses a serious threat to both humans and nature. The barge ran aground…
Two people shot dead as Guinea protest turns bloody

Two people were shot dead in Conakry on Monday on the first day of an open-ended general strike against the military government that seized power in 2021. The military government has been accused of stifling dissent and the main unions have urged public and private sectors to strike for the release of a media activist,…
Macron says ‘nothing ruled out,’ including using Western troops, to stop Russia winning Ukraine war

French President Emmanuel Macron has discussed the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine to help Ukraine win the war against Russia. This would be a potential major escalation to the biggest ground war Europe has seen since World War II. The possibility of Western democracies putting troops on the ground remains remote, but Macron’s…
Nvidia launches RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop GPUs for AI on the go

Nvidia launched its RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop graphics processing units (GPUs) for on-the-go AI processing. These high-end GPUs use the Ada Lovelace architecture. They’re aimed at empowering content creators, researchers, and engineers with AI acceleration and graphics performance, even while working from portable devices. Nvidia made the announcement ahead of the Mobile…
Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant

Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows. The company is launching a new flagship large language model called Mistral Large. When it comes to reasoning capabilities, it is designed to rival other top-tier models, such as GPT-4 and Claude 2. In addition to Mistral…
Leadership In The Age Of AI: Use A Win-Win Philosophy

In this era of humans working with machines, being an effective leader with artificial intelligence (AI) takes a range of skills and activities. In this series, I provide an incisive roadmap for leadership in the age of AI. The promise of AI is that it will be transformative and valuable for all humans. To create…
Figure AI to Raise $675 Million for Human-Like Robots

Figure AI, a startup developing human-like robots, is reportedly in the process of raising $675 million in funding, with a pre-money valuation of roughly $2 billion. Among the investors are Jeff Bezos’ Explore Investments, Microsoft, Nvidia and an Amazon-affiliated fund, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 23), citing unnamed sources. Other backers include Intel’s venture capital arm, LG Innotek,…
Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI

Microsoft has announced a new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup that’s valued at €2 billion (about $2.1 billion). The Financial Times reports that the partnership will include Microsoft taking a minor stake in the 10-month-old AI company, just a little over a year after Microsoft invested more than $10 billion into its…
‘Deepening occupation’: Turkey condemns Israel on last day of ICJ hearing

As the UN’s top court holds its final day of hearings, Turkey has joined a large number of countries that have condemned Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmet Yildiz said the long-running conflict could have been settled by now if international and human…
Israeli Jets Bomb Eastern Lebanon for the First Time Since Gaza War Began

Lebanese security officials say Israel has targeted eastern Lebanon for the first time since the war on Gaza started. Confirming the strikes, Israel’s army said its jets targeted sites used by Hezbollah for its aerial defense system, adding that they came “in response to the launch of a surface-to-air missile” that downed an Israeli drone…
U.S. and British Warplanes Again Strike Houthi-Linked Targets in Yemen

The United States and Britain carried out another round of large-scale military strikes on Saturday against multiple sites in Yemen controlled by Houthi militants, U.S. officials said. Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand provided support for the operation. The strikes, which the statement called “necessary and proportionate,” hit 18 targets across eight…
Netanyahu Says Hostage Deal Would Delay, but Not Stop Rafah Invasion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Sunday that progress toward a deal for a temporary cease-fire and the release of some hostages held in Gaza would delay but not prevent an Israeli ground invasion for Rafah, as such an operation is essential to eliminating Hamas. However, Netanyahu states that Hamas would need to…
ScreenConnect Flaws Exploited to Deliver All Kinds of Malware (CVE-2024-1709, CVE-2024-1708)

ConnectWise ScreenConnect is a remote desktop solution consisting of server and client elements (applications). This makes it a popular solution for offering technical assistance or for remotely managing data centers. However, this is also what makes it a popular solution for attackers, who exploit it to easily access and compromise a great number of enterprise…
Critical Mac And iPhone Security Warning—Stop Doing These 3 Things Now

Researchers at Apple security and management specialists Jamf have published a new analysis that reveals why so many users are ill-equipped to combat the latest cyber threats impacting Macs and iPhones. Through examining real world user data, the researchers have issued a critical security warning involving three actions that are leaving users open to attack.…
White House Wades Into Debate on ‘Open’ Versus ‘Closed’ Artificial Intelligence Systems

The Biden administration is wading into a debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be publicly available for anyone to use and modify. The White House said Wednesday it is seeking public comment on the risks and benefits of having an AI system’s key components to be “open-source.” Tech companies are divided…
60% of OpenAI model’s responses contain plagiarism

A new report from plagiarism detector Copyleaks found that 60% of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 outputs contained some form of plagiarism. Why it matters: Content creators from authors and songwriters to The New York Times are arguing in court that generative AI trained on copyrighted material ends up spitting out exact copies. Copyleaks is an AI-based text analysis company…
Windows is getting its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos

Google and Samsung aren’t the only ones baking magical AI selective photo erasers into their devices — they’re about to become table stakes for Windows PCs too. Microsoft has just announced Generative erase, a feature that lets you do similar things in the Photos app that comes bundled with Windows. While that may not be quite…
Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World

Talking to Jenson Huang should come with a warning label. The Nvidia CEO is so invested in where AI is headed that, after nearly 90 minutes of spirited conversation, I came away convinced the future will be a neural net nirvana. I could see it all: a robot renaissance, medical godsends, self-driving cars, chatbots that…
Arm unveils Arm Neoverse CSS V3 chip designs for AI efficiency gains

In a leap forward for AI infrastructure, Arm announced the latest advancements in its Neoverse chip technology based on the Arm computing architecture. The company unveiled two new Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) built on third-generation Neoverse intellectual property. Arm designs chips or parts of chips for other third-party chip designers and manufacturers. In this…
Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public

Despite the advanced capabilities of generative AI (gen AI) models, we have seen many instances of them going rogue, hallucinating, or having loopholes malicious actors can exploit. To help mitigate that issue, Microsoft is unveiling a tool that can help identify risks in generative AI systems. On Thursday, Microsoft released its Python Risk Identification Toolkit…
230k Individuals Impacted by Data Breach at Australian Telco Tangerine

Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a recent cyberattack that compromised the personal information of approximately 230,000 individuals. The breach, discovered on February 20 but occurring on February 18, involved unauthorized access to a legacy customer database containing names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, mobile phone numbers, and Tangerine account numbers. However, sensitive data such…
‘SlashAndGrab’ ScreenConnect Vulnerability Widely Exploited for Malware Delivery

A critical vulnerability affecting ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect remote desktop access product has been exploited widely, leading to the delivery of ransomware and other malware. ConnectWise issued patches for the flaw, which allows an authentication bypass (CVE-2024-1709) and a path traversal issue (CVE-2024-1708), after being notified of in-the-wild exploitation attempts. Dubbed SlashAndGrab by Huntress, the flaws enable…
Apple Shortcuts Vulnerability Exposes Sensitive Information

A critical vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-23204, has been discovered in Apple Shortcuts, affecting both iOS and macOS users, allowing attackers to access sensitive information without user consent. Cybersecurity firm Bitdefender explains that the flaw enables the Shortcuts background process to bypass Apple’s Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) framework, even when operating within a sandbox environment.…
Toward Better Patching — A New Approach with a Dose of AI

Security teams face a daunting challenge in analyzing and prioritizing the predicted influx of 2,900 new vulnerabilities per month in 2024, making effective patching nearly impossible due to the sheer volume and complexity of known vulnerabilities. Coalition, a cyberinsurance firm, recognizes the urgent need to address this issue to reduce claims and increase profits, given…
Houthis Order ‘Ban’ on Israel, US and UK-linked Ships in the Red Sea

Yemen’s Houthis have announced they have “banned” vessels linked to Israel, the United States, and United Kingdom from sailing in surrounding seas, in support of Palestinians in Gaza. The warning came amid continuing Houthi attacks that have disrupted international trade on the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia, and counterattacks by US and British…
Visiting Ukraine, Schumer Aims to Pressure G.O.P. to Take Up Aid Bill

The top Senate Democrat is leading a delegation to show solidarity as Ukraine fights off a Russian assault and to increase the pressure on Republicans to drop their opposition to additional U.S. aid. His trip to Ukraine comes at a critical time, as a foreign assistance package that includes more than $60 billion in military…
Israel Steps Up Attacks in Gaza Amid Cease-Fire Talks

On Thursday, Israel showed its intention to push into Rafah with ground forces if Hamas does not release hostages before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Nearly 100 people were killed across the enclave from Israeli strikes over the past day, the Gazan health authorities said on Thursday. On Wednesday night, Benny…
U.S. Imposes Major New Sanctions on Russia, Targeting Finance and Defense

As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, the Biden administration unveiled its largest sanctions package to date in response to the death of Aleksei A. Navalny. The sanctions target Russia’s financial sector and military-industrial complex in a broad effort to degrade the Kremlin’s war machine. With Congress struggling to reach an agreement on…
Intel unveils Intel Foundry with eye to AI and next-gen lithography manufacturing

Intel Corp. executives today detailed a new business vision for its foundry unit, freshly renamed Intel Foundry, and revealed the most advanced chip manufacturing process on the company’s technology roadmap. The process will be powered by High NA EUV machines from ASML Holdings NV. The machines, which are about the size of a double-decker bus and…
Stable Diffusion 3.0 debuts new diffusion transformation architecture to reinvent text-to-image gen

Stability AI is out today with an early preview of its Stable Diffusion 3.0 next-generation flagship text-to-image generative AI model. Stability AI has been steadily iterating and releasing multiple image models over the past year, each showing increasing levels of sophistication and quality. The SDXL release in July dramatically improved the Stable Diffusion base model…
Astronauts celebrate success of 1st surgery robot on ISS: ‘It’s a real game-changer’

One slice through rubber bands may pave a new pathway for space surgeons. A robot on the International Space Station (ISS), remote-controlled by a big team on Earth, simulated surgical cuts on Feb. 10 in a historic first for space medicine. Astronauts say this work will help them fly further from Earth than ever before.…
Nvidia Declares AI a ‘Whole New Industry’—and Investors Agree

Big tech companies are continuing to pour cash into artificial intelligence at a breakneck pace, and based on Nvidia’s earnings update Wednesday, much of it is going to the chip maker. “This last year, we’ve seen generative AI really becoming a whole new application space, a whole new way of doing computing,” Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s…
Google to pause Gemini AI model’s image generation of people due to inaccuracies

Google is pausing its AI tool that creates images of people following inaccuracies in some historical depictions generated by the model, the latest hiccup in the Alphabet-owned company’s efforts to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Microsoft. Google started offering image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month, but over the past few…
Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles

Iran has supplied Russia with an estimated 400 surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missiles with a striking capability range of between 300 and 700 km (186 to 435 miles). According to Iranian military officials, there have already been four shipments of missiles to Russia since early January, and there will continue to be more in the coming…
US charges Japanese crime leader with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar

On Wednesday, U.S. authorities charged a Japanese crime syndicate leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials out of Myanmar. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, and co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri, 61, trafficked nuclear material, weapons, and drugs. Authorities accused Ebisawa of conspiring to sell weapons-grade nuclear material and lethal narcotics from Myanmar and buying military weapons for an armed…
Russian Hackers Target Ukraine with Disinformation and Credential-Harvesting Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that was utilizing spam emails to spread disinformation related to war. Codenamed Operation Texonto, the operation occurred in two waves over November and December 2023. While the operation has not been attributed to a specific threat actor, the campaign was linked to Russian-aligned threat actors by…
An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance

An online dump of documents originating from a private security contractor is currently being investigated by the Chinese authorities as the dump details hacking activity, as well as domestic and foreign spying tools used by the Chinese government. The dump contains highly sensitive information exposing the methodology used by Chinese authorities to conduct surveillance on…
Ukraine arrests father-son duo in Lockbit cybercrime bust

On Wednesday, police in Ukraine reported the arrest of a father-son duo who were members of the cybercrime gang Lockbit. The arrests in Ukraine enabled law enforcement to seize 34 servers and over 200 cryptocurrency accounts. The father and son duo, arrested in Ternopil, were wanted by authorities for extorting victims across a wide range…
Denmark unveils Ukraine aid package, urges allies to give more

On Thursday, Denmark announced a new military aid package for Ukraine in the amount of 1.7 billion crown ($247.4 million). Denmark continued, making an urgent public plea to allies to increase donations to Ukraine for the war with Russia. Denmark is one of the biggest contributors of military aid respective to its economy and has…
Ukraine says Russia has launched over 8,000 missiles, 4,630 drones during war

On Thursday Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat announced that Russia has launched more than 8,000 missiles and 4,630 drones at Ukrainian targets since the outbreak of the war. In a televised statement, Ihnat declared that Ukrainian air defenses have shot down 3,605 of the drones since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022.…
Apple Adds Post-Quantum Encryption to iMessage

On Wednesday, Apple unveiled a post-quantum cryptographic protocol called PQ3 for iMessage. This new protocol shields against potential future quantum computing attacks and protects encrypted communications. Apple describes the new PQ3 as an upgrade that will provide post-quantum security in both the initial encryption key establishment and ongoing message chains. PQ3 limits the number of…
China’s Rush to Dominate A.I. Comes With a Twist: It Depends on U.S. Technology

In November, a year after ChatGPT’s release, a relatively unknown Chinese start-up leaped to the top of a leaderboard that judged the abilities of open-source artificial intelligence systems. The Chinese firm, 01.AI, was only eight months old but had deep-pocketed backers and a $1 billion valuation and was founded by a well-known investor and technologist,…
ChatGPT has meltdown and starts sending alarming messages to users

ChatGPT appears to have broken, providing users with rambling responses of gibberish. In recent hours, the artificial intelligence tool appears to be answering queries with long and nonsensical messages, talking Spanglish without prompting – as well as worrying users, by suggesting that it is in the room with them. There is no clear indication of…
Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

In restaurants around the world, from Shanghai to New York, robots are cooking meals. They make burgers and dosas, pizzas and stir-fries, in much the same way robots have made other things for the past 50 years: by following instructions precisely, doing the same steps in the same way, over and over. But Ishika Singh…
Pentagon explores military uses of large language models

After the initial delight around the world over the advent of ChatGPT and AI image generators, government officials have begun worrying about the darker ways they could be used. On Tuesday, the Pentagon began meetings with tech industry leaders to accelerate the discovery and implementation of the most useful military applications. The consensus: Emerging artificial…
Google introduces a lightweight open AI model called Gemma

Google has released an open AI model called Gemma, which it says is created using the same research and technology that was used to build its Gemini AI models. The company says Gemma is its contribution to the open community and is meant to help developers “in building AI responsibly.” As such, it also introduced…
Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups

Last May, Anthropic, one of the world’s hottest artificial intelligence start-ups, raised $450 million from investors including Google and Salesforce. It was the beginning of an astonishing funding spree. By August, Anthropic had landed $100 million from two Asian telecoms. Then Amazon committed $4 billion to it, followed by $2 billion more from Google. This…
Did OpenAI Sora Just Kickstart The Era Of Generative Video?

Just a few weeks back, I wrote that we are probably still some way from being able to create a movie from a natural language prompt. Now, it seems that it may happen a lot sooner than I suspected. OpenAI – creator of ChatGPT, the chatbot that started the current generative AI craze -just announced its…
Google’s AI Boss Says Scale Only Gets You So Far

For much of last year, knocking OpenAI off its perch atop the tech industry looked all but impossible, as the company rode a riot of excitement and hype generated by a remarkable, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged program called ChatGPT. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has recently at least given Sam Altman some healthy competition, leading…
Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’

Adobe is adding a new generative AI experience to its Acrobat PDF management software, which aims to “completely transform the digital document experience” by making information in long documents easier to find and understand. Announced in Adobe’s press release as “AI Assistant in Acrobat,” the new tool is described as a “conversational engine” that can…
Google, Microsoft Will Dominate AI as Computing Costs Surge

Sam Altman’s goal of raising about $7 trillion to make artificial-intelligence chips tells a story beyond his borderline-insane ambitions. First, the infrastructure needed to build AI has become exorbitantly expensive. Second, most of that value is still — still! — held by a handful of large technology companies — and the oligopoly is only going…
Iran Warship Aiding Houthi Pirates Hacked by US

US officials have claimed a recent cyberattack on an Iranian military spy ship disrupted intelligence gathering on Red Sea traffic. The intelligence gathering had been used to aid Houthi rebels in piracy against cargo ships in the region. NBC reported the US cyberattack on the ship took place over a week ago against the Iranian…
LockBit takedown: Infrastructure disrupted, criminals arrested, decryption keys recovered

The UK National Crime Agency and Europol took over LockBit’s leak site yesterday and has released more information about the takedown. The NCA took control of the infrastructure that allowed the LockBit service to operate, which compromised their entire criminal enterprise. The LockBit’s administration environment was taken over and the public-facing leak site will show…
China’s Volt Typhoon Hackers Are Exfiltrating Sensitive OT Data

The hacker group Volt Typhoon could pose a serious threat to organizations using industrial control systems or other operational technology according to cybersecurity firm Dragos. The 2023 ICS/OT Cybersecurity Year in Review report by Dragos reveals that the company is aware of 21 threat groups who’s activities could impact OT. One of the three groups…
US calls for temporary ceasefire in UN text for Israel-Gaza war

The United States has proposed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council calling for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution also warned Israel against invading the city of Rafah. However, the US plans to veto another draft resolution from Algeria which calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. More than a million displaced Palestinians…
Russia arrests dual US citizen for Ukraine-linked ‘treason’

A woman who holds dual Russian and United States nationality has been arrested by Russia’s internal security and intelligence agency. The woman was arrested in the Ural district for committing “treason” by raising money for Ukraine. The woman was brough into custody by the Federal Security Service in the city of Yekaterinburg. The reports said…