Cybersecurity Dive January 19, 2024
The federal agency’s early warning system notified organizations across multiple critical infrastructure sectors of potential impending attacks.
Dive Brief:
- The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s pre-ransomware notification initiative, which aims to reduce risk by alerting organizations of early-stage ransomware activity, resulted in more than 1,200 pre-ransomware notifications in 2023.
- The federal agency’s effort had a busy and productive first year in operation, including 294 alerts that were also shared with 27 partner countries, according to CISA’s 2023 year in review.
- Notifications were sent to more than 100 K-12 school districts and colleges, respectively, and more than 150 U.S. healthcare organizations. Other sectors that received alerts include organizations in emergency services, water and wastewater, transportation, energy, and state and...
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