Countries that attended last week's NATO Summit have committed to strengthening cyber defense's role in the organization's overall deterrence and defense efforts, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
In a communique issued after the meeting, NATO allies have expressed implementing a more proactive response to state-sponsored cyberattacks.
NATO allies have also moved to update the Cyber Defense Pledge with the inclusion of new national goals in bolstering cyber defenses although such goals have been classified.
"What we're looking at is no longer something that is just delegated to allies to implement, but is now a tool which for the first time includes national goals, almost minimum requirements, things that everybody needs to have," said NATO Cyber and Hybrid Policy Section Head Christian-Marc Liflander.
Moreover, a new Virtual Cyber Incident Support Capability has been launched by NATO to help allies better mitigate malicious cyberattacks, according to the communique, which also noted the organization's first comprehensive cyber defense will be held in November.
Google has moved to strengthen Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor security with the introduction of the new kvmCTF vulnerability reward program, reports BleepingComputer.
Attackers have leveraged trojanized versions of Indian software provider Conceptworld's installers for its Copywhiz, Notezilla, and RecentX programs to facilitate the delivery of information-stealing malware, The Hacker News reports.
Defense and manufacturing organizations across South Korea have been subjected to attacks deploying the new Xctdoor malware through a hacked South Korean enterprise resource planning software update server, echoing a technique previously leveraged by North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat operation and Lazarus Group sub-cluster Andariel to facilitate the delivery of the HotCroissant and Riffdoor backdoors, according to The Register.