Intro

Mitigation continues on the global CrowdStrike outage. UK police arrest a suspected member of Scattered Spider. A scathing report from DHS says CISA ignored a directive to cut ties with a faulty contractor. Huntress finds SocGholish distributing AsyncRAT. Ransomware takes down the largest trial court in the U.S. A US regulator finds many major banks inadequately manage cyber risk. CISA adds three critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Australian police forces combat SMS phishing attacks.  Our guest Chris Grove, Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Nozomi Networks, shares insights on the challenges of protecting the upcoming Summer Olympics. Rick Howard looks at Cyber Threat Intelligence. Appreciating the value of internships.

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CyberWire Guest

The 2024 Summer Olympics start later this week in Paris. Our guest Chris Grove, Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Nozomi Networks, discusses how, in addition to consumer issues, the actual events, games and facilities at the Olympics could be at risk of an attack. 

This week on CSO Perspectives

This week on N2K Pro’s CSO Perspectives podcast, host and N2K CSO Rick Howard focus on “The current state of Cyber Threat Intelligence.” Hear a bit about it from Rick and Dave. You can find the full episode here if you are an N2K Pro subscriber, otherwise check out an extended sample here. 

Selected Reading

Special Report: IT Disruptions Continue as CrowdStrike Sees Crisis Receding (Metacurity)

Suspected Scattered Spider Member Arrested in UK (SecurityWeek)

DHS watchdog rebukes CISA and law enforcement training center for failing to protect data (The Record)

SocGholish malware used to spread AsyncRAT malware (Security Affairs)

California Officials Say Largest Trial Court in US Victim of Ransomware Attack (SecurityWeek)

Finance: Secret Bank Ratings Show US Regulator’s Concern on Handling Risk (Bloomberg)

U.S. CISA adds Adobe Commerce and Magento, SolarWinds Serv-U, and VMware vCenter Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (Security Affairs)

Australian police seize devices used to send over 318 million phishing texts - Security - Telco/ISP (iTnews)

Internships can be a gold mine for cybersecurity hiring (CSO Online)

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