Cybersecurity Challenges and Developments

The latest cyber moves from the Trump White House. Pompompurin faces resentencing. An attack on a government IT contractor impacts Medicaid, child support, and food assistance programs. Helldown ransomware targets unpatched Zyxel firewalls. Murdoc is a new Mirai botnet variant. Cloudflare maps the DDoS landscape. North Korea’s Lazarus group uses fake job interviews to deploy malware. Hackers are abusing Google ads to spread AmosStealer malware. Pwn2Own Automotive awards over $382,000 on its first day. In our CertByte segment, Chris Hare and Steven Burnley take on a question from N2K’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Practice Test. NYC Restaurant week tries to keep bots off the menu. 

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CertByte Segment

Welcome to CertByte! On this bi-weekly segment hosted by Chris Hare, a content developer and project management specialist at N2K, we share practice questions from N2K’s suite of industry-leading certification resources, and a study tip to help you achieve the professional certifications you need to fast-track your career growth in IT, cyber security, or project management.

In each segment, Chris is joined by an N2K Content Developer to help illustrate the learning. This week, Chris is joined by Steven Burnley to break down a question targeting the CC - Certified in Cyber Security certification by ISC2®. Today’s question comes from N2K’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Practice Test.

Have a question that you’d like to see covered? Email us at certbyte@n2k.com. If you're studying for a certification exam, check out N2K’s full exam prep library of certification practice tests, practice labs, and training courses by visiting our website at n2k.com/certify. To get the full news to knowledge experience, learn more about our N2K Pro subscription at https://thecyberwire.com/pro. 

Please note: The questions and answers provided here, and on our site, are not actual current or prior questions and answers from these certification publishers or providers.

Additional sources: 

https://www.pmi.org/certifications/agile-acp 

https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/certifications/agile-certified-exam-outline.pdf 

Selected Reading

Trump Fires DHS Board Probing Salt Typhoon Hacks (Dark Reading)

TSA chief behind cyber directives for aviation, pipelines and rail ousted by Trump team (The Record)

Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht (BBC)

BreachForums Admin Conor Fitzpatrick (Pompompurin) to Be Resentenced (Hackread)

Government IT contractor Conduent says 'third-party compromise’ caused outages (The Record)

Helldown Ransomware Exploiting Zyxel Devices Using Zero-Day Vulnerability (Cyber Security News)

New Mirai botnet variant Murdoc Botnet targets AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG532 routers (Security Affairs)

Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Reached 5.6 Tbps (SecurityWeek)

InvisibleFerret Malware Attacking Windows Users Through Fake Job Interview Tactics (Cyber Security News)

Fake Homebrew Google ads target Mac users with malware (Bleeping Computer)

Over $380,000 Paid Out on First Day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 (SecurityWeek)

Security Alert: Bots Target NYC Restaurant Week (DataDome)

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