Increasing Russian disinformation campaigns have prompted the U.S. and Poland to bolster joint efforts to combat such threats with the establishment of the Ukraine Communications Group aimed at enhancing communication coordination and accurate information dissemination regarding the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

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Offensive cyber operations below the threshold of armed conflict were noted by U.S. Cyber Command Senior Strategist Emily Goldman to have been strategically undermining the U.S. and its allies and partners as adversaries become emboldened to deploy routinary attacks without the risk of war, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

U.S. rural hospitals, most of which are critical access, were noted by a report from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 to be most vulnerable to ransomware attacks due to their dependence on outdated software and lacking cybersecurity funding, according to CyberScoop.

CyberScoop reports that ransomware attacks became more prevalent last year following a slight decline in 2022, with data leak site posts increasing 75% year-over-year to their highest since being first monitored in 2020.

BleepingComputer reports that more than 3.2 million individuals were noted to have had their data exfiltrated in the breach of U.S. nationally licensed debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions in February, which is over a million higher than the figure initially reported by the firm to the Office of the Maine Attorney General in April.

Hackread reports U.S. ticket sales and distribution firm Ticketmaster has been confirmed by its parent firm Live Nation Entertainment to have been subjected to a data breach days after ShinyHunters commenced the sale of data from 560 million users allegedly stolen from the company's systems.