Cyber spending requests should consider the recently issued critical infrastructure national security memorandum, according to a memo issued by Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young and National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr.
Officials at Clay County, Indiana, have submitted a local disaster declaration filing following a ransomware incident earlier this week that resulted in the disruption of its courthouse, corrections, and probation offices.
Up to 68 malicious iterations of the jQuery software have been distributed across GitHub, npm, and jsDelivr as part of a sophisticated supply chain intrusion.
Such a breach, which the BlackSuit ransomware group claimed to have resulted in the theft of 1.2 TB of data, "has endangered the safety and well-being of millions of public health patients."
Operations and some data at the Alabama State Department of Education have been compromised following a thwarted ransomware attack last month, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.