New from WSJ: North Korea commands 8,000+ hackers who "can wait months or years to exploit a single slip in a company’s digital security." Over the past decade, regime has stolen more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency:
www.wsj.com/world/asia/n...

The Cisco Talos 2024 Year in Review found that #ransomware actors are less likely to fully rebound from a law enforcement takedown if decryption tools are made publicly available. Compares the impact of the ALPHV takedown (key provided) vs LockBit (no key). blog.talosintelligence.com/content/file...

Congratulations @letswastetime.bsky.social, @davidjbianco.bsky.social, and Dr. Ryan Fetterman for being named the community winners in the “Innovation of the Year” category at the SANS Difference Makers Awards! So proud to work with you and see the impact of the PEAK Threat Hunting framework.

The pivoting from one telecommunications company to another, as described by T-Mobile's CSO, sounds similar to CrowdStrike's description of Liminal Panda exploiting eDNS servers in the GPRS network to compromise at least 13 telecoms globally since at least 2019...
www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/a...

Join me and Patrick Coughlin this Thursday at 1pm ET for a discussion about Splunk's security predictions for 2024! We'll cover generative AI use cases, the elevated role of the CISO, and of course, ransomware. Hope you'll join us!

discover.splunk.com/Splunk-Secur...
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Today I had the opportunity to tour NATO’s flagship cyber defense exercise in Tallinn, Estonia.

Cyber Coalition 2023 features 1,300 global participants from 35 NATO members and partners as well as the EU.

Stay tuned for interviews in a future episode of The Security Detail.