Yet Another Security Blog

 Summary Almost all tracked areas had some news this week.  It appears that there is again an uptick in activity targeting infrastructure at all levels.   News SLTT Puerto Rico partnered with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) to get 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) monitoring of its networked assets.  This will supplement the SOC they staffed in 2021 after a string of cyber attacks. https://www.govinfosecurity.com/puerto-rico-commits-76m-to-boost-cybersecurity-a-19550 Sophos reports that ransomware attacks on education institutions rose in the last year.  Some key points are that 56% of lower education respondents had been victims, 64% for higher education. and 60% of all education institutions had some kind of successful attack which is 44% higher than last year.   https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ransomware-attacks-education-rise/ https://assets.sophos.com/X24WTUEQ/at/pgvqxjrfq4kf7njrncc7b9jp/sophos-state-of-ransomware-education-2022-wp.

  Summary I am experimenting with releases on Mondays.  We will see how this works. Continues to be pretty slow news on the SLTT and Infrastructure fronts.  The biggest newsmaker was MI5 and the FBI giving a joint warning about China's efforts to steal intellectual property from the West. News In a first-of-its-kind announcement, Great Britain's MI5 and the United States' FBI have released a joint warning on China's threat to industry and academia.  They pointed out that Communist China leaders have made establishing China as a world economic powerhouse by acquiring intellectual property from the rest of the world a primary goal.  The FBI in particular has been warning of this in recent years as they have made several high-profile arrests that I have covered in previous posts.   https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fbi-mi5-bosses-warn-massive-china/?&web_view=true https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/06/fbi-mi5-china-spying-cyberattacks-business-economy