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State of Cybersecurity in Canada 2025: Key Insights for InfoSec Leaders

SecureWorld News

Ransomware and state-sponsored attacks continue to escalate Canada's critical sectorsincluding healthcare, energy, education, and retailhave become prime targets for cybercriminals. Sector-specific challenges Energy & Utilities: Legacy OT systems and third-party risks expose critical infrastructure to ransomware.

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Everest gang demands $200K for data stolen from South Africa state-owned electricity company ESKOM

Security Affairs

Eskom transforms inputs from the natural environment – coal, nuclear, fuel, diesel, water, and wind – into more than 90% of the energy supplied to a wide range of customers in South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Government of the Republic of South Africa owned utility ESKOM Hld SOC Ltd.

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2022 Cybersecurity predictions

CyberSecurity Insiders

While in past years, InfoSec was previously the focus and CISOs were the norm – we’re moving to a new cybersecurity world order that expands the role of the CISO to a CSO (Chief Security Officer). 5G began its disruptive charge in 2021, and this will continue to accelerate in 2022.

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US Cyber Command warns of Iran-linked hackers exploiting CVE-2017-11774 Outlook flaw

Security Affairs

Malware is currently delivered from: 'hxxps://customermgmt.net/page/macrocosm' #cybersecurity #infosec — USCYBERCOM Malware Alert (@CNMF_VirusAlert) July 2, 2019. These executables are both downloaders that utilize powershell to load the PUPY RAT. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S.,

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Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

The Security Ledger

Related Stories Citing Attacks On Small Utilities, Dragos Launches Community Defense Program FBI: Iranian APT Targets Israeli-Made PLCs Used In Critical Industries China Calls Out U.S. The post Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on. Read the whole entry. » » Click the icon below to listen. For Hacking.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

Prior to joining Delta Dental, Almeida was the CISO at Covanta Holding Corporation, a leader in energy-from-waste management services. He has also advised state and local government, utilities, large infrastructure and logistics organizations. Prior to IOOF, he has been security adviser for eight federal government departments.

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Threats to ICS and industrial enterprises in 2022

SecureList

Further evolution of cyberthreats as a response to infosec tools and measures. Energy, transport and utilities — in an attempt to gain a foothold in the critical infrastructure of a “potential adversary” just in case, and to use it to develop other attacks (see examples above).

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