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Threats to Critical Infrastructure: Examining the Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack Hearing

Joseph A. Blount, JR. President and Chief Executive Officer Colonial Pipeline
Categories: Cyber Crime

Although the investigation is ongoing, we believe the attacker exploited a legacy virtual private network (VPN) profile that was not intended to be in use. We are still trying to determine how the attackers gained the needed credentials to exploit it. Joseph A. Blount, JR.President and Chief Executive Officer, Colonial Pipeline Hearing Full Committee Hearing, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland …

Peters, Portman, Klobuchar, Blunt Release Bipartisan Report Investigating January 6th Capitol Attack

Peters, Portman, Klobuchar, Blunt Release Bipartisan Report Investigating January 6th Capitol Attack
Categories: Homeland Security

Report focuses on the security, planning and response failures related to the violent and unprecedented attack on January 6th Full text of the report and recommendations is available for download here WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and …

US Senate Committees Highlight Intelligence, Security Failures in Capitol Attack

Congress
Categories: Homeland Security

By VOA News Two U.S. Senate committees issued a joint report Tuesday detailing “a number of intelligence and security failures” ahead of and during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “January 6, 2021 marked not only an attack on the Capitol Building — it marked an attack on democracy,” the report says. “The entities responsible for securing and protecting …

800 Arrested in Global Organized Crime Investigation

800 Arrested in Global Organized Crime Investigation
Categories: Cyber Crime

By VOA News More than 800 suspects have been arrested, 32 tons of drugs seized and $148 million confiscated in a massive global organized crime investigation, law enforcement authorities said Tuesday. Operation Trojan Shield involved police raids in 16 countries in which 250 firearms and 55 luxury cars were also seized, officials announced at a news conference in The Hague. Dutch …

FBI’s Encrypted Phone Platform Infiltrated Hundreds of Criminal Syndicates; Result is Massive Worldwide Takedown

Map of Operation Trojan Shield
Categories: Cyber Crime

 U.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of CaliforniaSAN DIEGO – A wave of hundreds of arrests that began in Australia and stretched across Europe culminated today with the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment in San Diego charging 17 foreign nationals with distributing thousands of encrypted communication devices to criminal syndicates.The 500-plus arrests that took place during a worldwide two-day takedown …

Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside

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FBI Deputy Director Paul M. Abbate’s Remarks at Press Conference Regarding the Ransomware Attack on Colonial Pipeline

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A Command First: CNMF trains, certifies task force in full-spectrum operations

Categories: Information Operations
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NCSC Weekly Threat Report 4th of June 2021

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Latvian National Charged for Alleged Role in Transnational Cybercrime Organization

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