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Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights

John Battelle's Searchblog

Of course, were such a hypothesis true, one might imagine that the over percentage of GDP represented by government workers would have gone *down* over the past few decades. For example, check out this chart of what’s growing in our government, and what’s not: Aha! Now, education is, in the main, a government enterprise.

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Ransomware at IT Services Provider Synoptek

Krebs on Security

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software.

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Law enforcement operation seized Ragnar Locker group’s infrastructure

Security Affairs

“As of January 2022, the FBI has identified at least 52 entities across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including entities in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors,” reads the FBI’s flash alert.

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Operation Cronos: law enforcement disrupted the LockBit operation

Security Affairs

Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.

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Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten sells access to hacked networks

Security Affairs

According to the experts, the threat actors are merely trying to monetize their efforts selling information that have no intelligence value for the Iranian Government. In late July 2020, Crowdstrike spotted a threat actor associated with PIONEER KITTEN that was attempting to sell access to compromised networks on an underground forum.

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GUEST ESSAY: 5 security steps all companies should adopt from the Intelligence Community

The Last Watchdog

This cycle takes a holistic approach to detecting and deterring external threats and enforcing best-of-class data governance procedures. Businesses at large would do well to model their data collection and security processes after what the IC refers to as the “intelligence cycle.” infrastructure from cyber attacks.

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US GOV OFFERS A REWARD OF UP TO $15M FOR INFO ON LOCKBIT GANG MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES

Security Affairs

government offers rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of LockBit ransomware gang members and affiliates. ” reads the press release published by the U.S. “The reads the press release published by DoJ.