Week in Review: Volt Typhoon warning, Cloudflare’s nation-state breach, $25 million deepfake
Feb 9, 2024
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This week's guest is Doug Mayer. Topics include Volt Typhoon warning, Cloudflare's breach, importance of resilience in cybersecurity programs, emergence of Chief AI Officer, fake IDs and face swapping attacks, and identity as a service and ransomware attacks.
Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors are targeting US critical infrastructure for disruptive or destructive attacks.
CloudFlare experienced a nation-state attack involving the theft of credentials and data exfiltration from multiple platforms.
Deep dives
Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors seek to preposition themselves on IT networks
CSA and the FBI issue a warning that Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors are seeking to preposition themselves on IT networks for disruptive or destructive cyber attacks against US critical infrastructure.
CloudFlare announces a nation-state level breach
CloudFlare reports that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack, resulting in the theft of credentials and data exfiltration from 76 repositories. The attack involved the exploitation of stolen access tokens and credentials from multiple platforms.
Finance worker pays out $25 million after falling victim to deep-faked CFO
A finance worker unknowingly wired $25 million to cyber criminals after a video call with a deep-faked CFO. The employee grew suspicious after receiving a message mentioning a secret transaction, but was convinced to proceed after seeing the fake CFO on a call with others.
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Doug Mayer, vp, CISO, WCG
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