Security
"In at least one state, the local Army National Guard unit directly provides network defense services..."
Exploits date back as early as June 23...
The bug is in the SPNEGO Extended Negotiation Security Mechanism – which essentially allows a client and server to negotiate the choice of security mechanism that they use.
Where are CISOs focusing and what makes a good one?
In earlier SafePay attacks the group has actively gone after backups and deleted Volume Shadow Copies (VSC) in an effort to inhibit recovery activities.
It was, says offensive cybersecurity specialist Hendrik de Bruin, a pretty poor piece of malware, but noteworthy simply because it hasn't been tried before. "This is definitely not at a nation-state level of sophistication," de Bruin, a security consulting unit head at Check Point, told The
US citizens hosted laptop farms allowing North Korean workers to take on IT roles.