Critical Infrastructure Security

Such an intrusion has prompted automated delivery of the malicious lottie-player NPM package versions among users who obtained the library through third-party content delivery networks.

Down the home stretch, stay skeptical of anything that comes across, social media, podcasts, and the airwaves.

President Joe Biden's approval of the Technology Modernization Fund three years ago was noted by Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana to have significantly bolstered the U.S.'s cybersecurity posture.

Attacks by Chinese hackers have been targeted at Canada's critical infrastructure, with intrusions against U.S. critical infrastructure remaining a significant concern due to "cross-border interoperability and interdependence."

Increasingly prevalent state-sponsored intrusions have been partly fueled by escalating activities from both countries' non-state attackers, with Russia commonly tapping hacktivist groups and China partnering with universities and businesses in its malicious cyber operations.

The collaboration offers enterprises a scalable solution that integrates automated public key infrastructure and certificate management to secure continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines without slowing developer workflows.

Most downloaded among the malicious packages was "blockscan-api," which is a backdoored copy of etherscan-api, followed by "passport-js," which is a backdoored passport copy, and the backdoored bcryptjs copy dubbed "bcrypts-js," an analysis from the Datadog Security Research team showed.

Investigation into the incident revealed that infiltration of Change Healthcare's employee systems through stolen credentials without multi-factor authentication enabled the eventual compromise of the firm's network with ransomware.