#government-cybersecurity

#government-cybersecurity

Russian hackers have launched "a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants." According to the Dutch alert, hackers are imitating support chatbots to trick key targets into revealing their PINs for those communication platforms, which allows the bad actors to access incoming messages.

The Vulnerability Monitoring Service has transformed how quickly we can spot and fix weaknesses before they're exploited so we can protect against that. We've cut cyber attack fix times by 84% and reduced the backlog of critical issues by three-quarters. And as the service expands to cover more types of cyber threats, fix times are falling there, too.

The funding will establish a Government Cyber Unit, led by the UK's CISO and overseen by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), to improve risk identification, incident response, and recovery capabilities. The unit will also create a dedicated Government Cyber Profession, elevating cybersecurity from its current placement under the broader Government Security Profession.

(Kelvin Kuo/Los Angeles Times) The California secretary of state's website appears to have been compromised with advertisements for pornography and cash apps. The breach is part of a nationwide cyberattack pattern; a researcher has tracked at least 38 government agencies across 18 states targeted by similar attacks in recent weeks. The researcher warns bad actors could exploit the vulnerabilities to access citizen information or impersonate government agencies in fraudulent communications, raising urgent questions about government cybersecurity.