Mitigation

President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Chris Inglis as National Cyber Director and Jen Easterly as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency.

The Federal Reserve issued a recommended definition of “synthetic identity fraud” after convening an industry group.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a forensics collection capability to help detect activity related to the supply chain compromises affecting SolarWinds and Active Directory/Microsoft 365.

The FBI said federal charges against three computer programmers linked to the North Korean government illustrate the appeal of cryptocurrency markets and exchanges for theft and fraud.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urged public and private sector partners to follow its emergency directive on the Microsoft Exchange widespread vulnerability affecting on-premises deployments.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is hosting a conference call at noon (Eastern time) today on the active exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019