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• A software vulnerability could have been used to siphon over $15 million from Mexican banks (cyberscoop.com)
  Over $15 million was stolen from Mexican banks this month by thieves who created fake money orders and phony accounts to withdraw funds fro…
• Vulnerability in Signal's desktop app took only five hours to fix (cyberscoop.com)
  A critical vulnerability found in the desktop version of secure messaging app Signal was patched less than five hours after disclosure to t…
• Department of Energy strategy aims to make power systems more resilient to hacking (cyberscoop.com)
  the Department of Energy has released a five-year strategy to cut down on the risk of power-supply disruptions resulting from cyber inciden…
• Security flaw in Electron impacts hundreds of desktop apps (cyberscoop.com)
  Download those security patches: A flaw in the Electron framework impacts dozens of popular desktop apps, including Skype and Slack.
• Payment info exposed in Chili's 'data incident' (cyberscoop.com)
  The chain's parent company says hackers may have used malware to steal some customers' payment information.
• Russian hackers found the 'ultimate' hacking tool buried in the supply chain of laptops (cyberscoop.com)
  Hackers found a way to use "Lojack for Laptops" for spying, despite the software's parent company being warned about vulnerabilities multip…
• Possible Kaspersky sanctions meet resistance inside U.S. government (cyberscoop.com)
  A White House plan to sanction Kaspersky Lab has met resistance from senior U.S. government officials who are worried that it could set a d…
• 'Efail' exploit can decrypt old emails that were previously encrypted (cyberscoop.com)
  Research, dubbed "efail," explains how it's possible to exploit buggy email platforms, particularly in the way PGP is integrated into the p…
• Snyk raises $7 million for its open source security platform (cyberscoop.com)
  Snyk, a London-based startup that provides security for open source libraries, has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round.
• No, Apple is not making it harder for cops to hack iPhones (cyberscoop.com)
  Tuesday's report spread quickly after it was initially published on Tuesday including being re-blogged on several prominent outlets and rea…
• Symantec's stock plummets after announcement of internal audit (cyberscoop.com)
  Symantec's stock dropped heavily Friday, after the company announced it's conducting an internal investigation over “concerns raised by a f…
• Sen. Wyden blocks Krebs nomination over Stingray demands (cyberscoop.com)
  The Democratic senator wants more from DHS on Stingray use in the United States before he pushes to have Krebs confirmed.
• Government would be barred from mandating crypto backdoors under House bill (cyberscoop.com)
  A bipartisan group of House lawmakers wants to bar the federal government from mandating “backdoors,” or configurations that enable surveil…
• NIST Risk Management Framework wants U.S. gov to pay more attention to the supply chain (cyberscoop.com)
  NIST released a draft update to its Risk Management Framework, includes measures to guard against hackers slipping malicious code into the…
• Lawmakers call for action following revelations that APT28 posed as ISIS online (cyberscoop.com)
  The world got a fresh reminder Tuesday of the difficulties of assigning blame for hacking– and of the consequences when a case of mistaken…
• House panel advances State Department bug bounty bill (cyberscoop.com)
  The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a bug bounty bill in the latest effort to encourage agencies to use ethical hackers to secure…
• Senate report on Russian hacking highlights threats to election tech vendors (cyberscoop.com)
  Lawmakers are worried about the lack of visibility that authorities have into election technology vendors.
• The uphill battle to relaunch State Department's cybersecurity policy office (cyberscoop.com)
  Restoring the State Department’s cybersecurity policy office can’t come soon enough for advocates of U.S. digital diplomacy.
• Alaska election website was hacked on Election Day in 2016: report (cyberscoop.com)
  The hack was separate from Russia-backed probing of 21 states' election systems prior to the 2016 election.
• Accused Romanian hackers and financial fraudsters extradited to U.S. (cyberscoop.com)
  The Justice Department's announcement on the extradition characterize the tactics as "vishing" and "smishing" -- phishing by voice and text…
• Over 10,000 companies using software vulnerable to Equifax hack (cyberscoop.com)
  One year after a data breach allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 148 million Equifax customers, thousands of companies are…
• European Central Bank proposes framework to strengthen financial system’s defenses (cyberscoop.com)
  The European Central Bank (ECB) wants to make penetration testing a regular practice.
• Carbon Black stocks close 26 percent up on first day of public trading (cyberscoop.com)
  The company is optimistic about taking on well-established players in the cybersecurity game.
• Keith Alexander's cybersecurity company scores huge $78M investment (cyberscoop.com)
  IronNet Cybersecurity, a Maryland-based startup led by former NSA chief Keith Alexander, has scored another big investment.
• State Department to double cyber defense aid to Ukraine (cyberscoop.com)
  The U.S. State Department will double the cyber defense aid it pledged to Ukraine last year to $10 million, as Russian hackers look to atta…
• Pentagon bars Huawei, ZTE devices from sale on military bases (cyberscoop.com)
  The news comes as the U.S. government scrutinizes the two companies for potentially enabling Chinese espionage through their technology.
• ZooPark malware targets Android users though Telegram, watering holes (cyberscoop.com)
  A newly uncovered cyber-espionage campaign targets Android users in the Middle East and North Africa, according to Kaspersky Lab.
• Twitter warns all users to change passwords after discovering bug (cyberscoop.com)
  Twitter says an internal bug caused all user passwords to be stored in plain text on an internal log before being hashed.
• A ransomware attack cost a Massachusetts school district $10,000 (cyberscoop.com)
  Leominster School District was the target of a ransomware attack last month which resulted in a $10,000 Bitcoin payment to anonymous cyber…
• 'FacexWorm' malware targets cryptocurrency, spreads through Facebook's Messenger (cyberscoop.com)
  A phishing scam via Facebook Messenger has led to the spread of "FacexWorm," according to cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro.
• 70 percent of U.S. Cyber Command force teams are now 'fully operational' (cyberscoop.com)
  "They've had all the manning, they have all the training, they're fully operational capable."
• NSA's Rogers asks for big budget bump to separate U.S. Cyber Command (cyberscoop.com)
  The nation's top cyberwarrior bluntly told a House panel Tuesday that it would take a 16 percent increase in U.S. Cyber Command's budget to…
• What a Donald Trump presidency could mean for U.S. cyber weapons (cyberscoop.com)
  Defense contractors developing cyber weapons find themselves in a prime position to capitalize on Donald Trump’s rise to the White House.
• Trump's White House: cyberweapons development is a 'priority' (cyberscoop.com)
  Of the scant policies listed on WhiteHouse.gov, President Donald Trump says his administration will focus on offensive and defensive cyber…
• Shadow Brokers return to taunt U.S. government after ransomware spread (cyberscoop.com)
  A mysterious group known for publishing highly classified computer code developed by the National Security Agency returned to the limelight…
• Cryptocurrency company pushes back against Shadow Brokers' latest claims (cyberscoop.com)
  The Shadow Brokers announced Tuesday that they will accept Zcash as payment for a monthly subscription service to access leaked NSA files.…
• Hackers linked to North Korea targeted U.S. ICS companies, breached energy firm (cyberscoop.com)
  Multiple sources tell CyberScoop that the report details an energy company that was breached by what is thought to be North Korea-linked ha…
• These senators are hoping to divide Cyber Command from the NSA (cyberscoop.com)
  A bipartisan amendment introduced on Tuesday in the Senate to the long overdue 2017 National Defense Authorization Act seeks to elevate U.S…
• Report: Obama admin planted cyber 'bombs' inside Russian infrastructure (cyberscoop.com)
  The Obama Administration reportedly planned a covert cyber operation as part of their Russian sanctions issued in December 2016 to punish M…
• Shamoon 2.0 and StoneDrill are separate campaigns, but aimed at the same group (cyberscoop.com)
  The attacks launched against Saudi Arabian businesses and government organizations are likely coming from groups with aligned interests.
• Leaked CIA documents show just how complicated computer warfare really is (cyberscoop.com)
  According to WikiLeaks' dump, even elite hackers at the CIA have to depend on StackOverflow for answers.
• U.K. confirms use of offensive cyberweapons against ISIS (cyberscoop.com)
  Defense Secretary Michael Fallon says his country has taken advantage of offensive cyberweapons against the Islamic State.
• Google and Microsoft ask Georgia governor to veto 'hack back' bill (cyberscoop.com)
  Google and Microsoft are asking Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to veto SB 315, a controversial bill that would criminalize "unauthorized computer…
• North Korea's favorite anti-virus software is just an old, ripped off Trend Micro product (cyberscoop.com)
  Check Point researchers found that the North Korean software was constructed using a 10-year-old file scanning engine, which Trend Micro fi…
• Regulators tightening controls on devices connecting to utility company networks (cyberscoop.com)
  U.S. regulators are cracking down on the cybersecurity risks to the electric grid posed by everyday electronics like laptops and flash driv…
• Researchers find Pakistani hacking operation aimed at India (cyberscoop.com)
  Researchers highlighted a stealthy remote access trojan, dubbed "GravityRAT," that's been repetitively used to target Indian organizations…
• Intel Committee blasts FBI for not notifying Russian hacking victims (cyberscoop.com)
  House Intel says the FBI didn't adequately engage with hacking victims in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.
• State threat-sharing center warns of multiple PHP vulnerabilities (cyberscoop.com)
  MS-ISAC said the vulnerabilities were a high risk to government organizations and businesses of all sizes.
• Zuckerberg: Facebook warned campaigns in 2016 about Russian hackers (cyberscoop.com)
  Facebook directly notified campaigns in the U.S. 2016 election that they were targets of Russian hackers, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed whil…
• Researchers found a semi-legit way to turn an Amazon Echo into a wiretap (cyberscoop.com)
  Security researchers have used Amazon's Echo to remotely listen to people's nearby conversations, according to cybersecurity firm CheckMarx.