The CISA announced the first round of commitments at the RSA Conference on Wednesday, with Director Jen Easterly warning that it was necessary because of widespread hacking campaigns by nation-states like China.

Poland’s CERT-PL said on Wednesday that it had observed a large-scale malware campaign, likely carried out by the hacker group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, associated with Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU.

Identified by analysts in 2022, the hackers use social engineering to lure users into giving up their login credentials or one-time password codes to bypass multifactor authentication.

Germany has recalled its ambassador to Russia in response to alleged Moscow-backed cyberattacks targeting various sectors in Germany, including defense, aerospace, and IT companies, as well as the German Social Democratic Party.

The U.S. Department of Justice stated that BTC-e was a primary method for cybercriminals to transfer and launder illegal proceeds. Vinnik's actions led to a loss of at least $121 million through BTC-e.

The median time to patch bugs listed in the CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog is 174 days, compared to 621 days for non-KEV vulnerabilities, according to an analysis by Bitsight.

The criminal network was responsible for defrauding thousands of victims through fake police calls, investment fraud, or romance scams, Europol said. Scam callers posed as victims’ close relatives, bank employees, customer service, or police.

These hackers are employing sophisticated phishing techniques to distribute malicious software and target financial theft, with incidents steadily increasing over the past two years.

An investigation by Amnesty International's Security Lab revealed that Indonesia has been procuring powerful and invasive commercial spyware and surveillance products from international vendors, brokers, and resellers.

The hackers, known as the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans, announced their operation against the KGB late last week. The agency has not commented on the attack, but on Monday its website says that it is “in the process of development.”