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Cyber Daily: U.N. Members Seek New Cyber Discussions Amid Rising Ransomware Attacks | Port of Houston Network Breached
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Good day. The future direction of international efforts to define acceptable behaviors in cyberspace is unclear, WSJ Pro’s Catherine Stupp reports.
While United Nations members agreed on a set of principles earlier this year, competing visions from France and Russia about the next iteration of the forum that decided the conventions means countries are confused about what comes next, researchers say.
Also today: A California hospital is sued over a data breach; hackers attacked the Port of Houston; and intelligence agencies are big users of ad blockers.
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U.S. President Joe Biden told the United Nations General Assembly that the U.S. is hardening its critical infrastructure against cyberattacks.
PHOTO: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
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No path forward: The future of United Nations-led efforts to create rules around how nations should behave in cyberspace is unclear, researchers and experts say, even as countries respond to a growing number of ransomware attacks.
U.N. member states in a cyber discussion group struck an agreement in March on a set of so-called norms, or nonbinding principles that include a prohibition on attacking critical infrastructure in other countries. Russia and France, however, proposed two competing groups to replace that forum, which was scheduled to end this year.
“There’s a total confusion as to where the next step is and what this process leads us to,” said Stefan Soesanto, a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the ETH Zurich university.
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A vaccination site operated by UC San Diego Health, which is being sued after a data breach exposed information on around half a million patients, employees and others.
PHOTO: BING GUAN/BLOOMBERG
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UC San Diego Health sued over data breach. A class action lawsuit alleges that the healthcare system was negligent and violated California’s privacy and medical confidentiality laws after a data breach last winter. The breach exposed information from around a half million patients, employees and other people connected to UC San Diego Health. The healthcare system posted a statement on its website about the breach in July, stating that hackers accessed email accounts between December 2020 and April 2021. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
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The Port of Houston. PHOTO: BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES
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Hackers attacked Port of Houston last month. The Port of Houston said its computer network was breached by hackers last month, but shipping and operation data weren’t disrupted. Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said at a Senate hearing on Thursday that she believed a foreign government-backed hacking group was behind the attack.
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A U.S. Coast Guard report described how hackers entered the Port of Houston’s network by breaking into a web server through a previously unidentified vulnerability in password management software and then stealing log-in credentials. Cybersecurity staff at the port detected the attack minutes after the credentials were stolen and isolated the server that was hacked. (CNN)
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Pegasus spy software found on French ministers’ phones. Traces of the Pegasus software were found on the phones of at least five current French government ministers. The French investigative news outlet Mediapart cited a confidential intelligence report about the spyware, which is made by NSO Group. There is no evidence the ministers’ phones were hacked, but the report suggests that their phones were targeted with the surveillance software. (The Guardian)
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Sen. Ron Wyden. PHOTO: BILL CLARK/CQ ROLL CALL/ZUMA PRESS
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U.S. intelligence agencies use ad blockers. The U.S. Intelligence Community, which includes the NSA, CIA, and other agencies including part of the FBI, uses ad-blocking technology to avoid malicious online advertisements containing code that might hack devices or harvest sensitive data. Sen. Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) said in a letter that the Intelligence Community’s chief information officer informed him that agencies widely use ad-blocking tools.
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Mr. Wyden’s letter was to the chief information officer of the federal Office of Management and Budget. He urged her to protect government networks from “foreign spies and criminals who might misuse online advertising for hacking and surveillance.”(Vice)
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