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White House Promises Cybersecurity Action, SolarWinds Response
The White House promised to make cybersecurity a top priority and in its first month has begun responding to the massive SolarWinds hack and appointed several people with national security experience who have also previously worked on cybersecurity issues to the Biden Administration.
New DNS Abuse Institute Tackles Malicious Activity
The Public Interest Registry launched the DNS Abuse Institute to coordinate efforts by domain registrars and internet registries to stomp out abuses of the domain name system.
U.S. Indicts Three North Koreans for Broad Hacking Campaign
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted three North Koreans for allegedly hacking banks, private companies, and government agencies for many years.
So Many Stolen Passwords Make Credential Stuffing Easier
Thanks to all the data breaches and security incidents over the last few years, attackers are sitting on a gold mine of valuable credentials information which they can use to launch credential-stuffing attacks against major Web services and other applications.
Web Shell Attacks Spike
The volume of attacks using web shells as a persistence mechanism has nearly doubled in recent months, Microsoft said.