AI Threats Create Urgent Need to Renew Cybersecurity Information-Sharing Law, Businesses Tell Congress
Eric Geller, Cybersecurity Dive
Leading infrastructure-operator associations want lawmakers to renew the program for another 10 years.
Three dozen business groups, including organizations representing critical infrastructure sectors, are pressing Congress to renew a major cybersecurity information sharing law before its expiration next month…
Read moreStronger Together: How Banks Collaborate on Cybersecurity
Bank Policy Institute
Banks collaborate with each other, with other industries and with the U.S. government to safeguard the financial system against cyberattacks.
The financial sector is a leader across critical infrastructure industries in cyber information sharing, having formed the first information sharing and analysis center in 1999 and a sector coordinating council in 2002. As frontier AI accelerates and amplifies cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure, the banking sector’s proactive, collaborative coordination is more crucial than ever…
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Google Disrupts 1.3 Million-Device Android Botnet, Says TV Box Maker Sold Criminal Access
Swati Khandelwal, The Hacker News
A botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices, mostly TV set-top boxes, lost control of its servers in late October in a takedown led by Google.
Google says it is highly confident that device maker Videostrong intentionally put a backdoor in the boxes and sold access to criminals. They used the boxes for ad fraud and to pass other people’s internet traffic through owners’ home connections. The backdoor is still on the boxes, and owners cannot remove it themselves…
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