UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare has been permitted by the Department of Health and Human Services to issue breach notices for the healthcare providers impacted by the widespread ransomware attack following severe opposition to a previous pronouncement requiring all affected organizations to file their own notifications, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

International law enforcement agencies behind Operation Endgame, which has been touted to be the biggest anti-botnet and dropper malware operation, have called for more information regarding the leader of the Emotet botnet operation dubbed "Odd," who continues to evade arrest despite the botnet being disrupted twice, according to The Register.

Completion of an organization-wide cybersecurity risk assessment process at the Environmental Protection Agency is expected by Nov. 22, more than six years after such a mechanism had been recommended by the Government Accountability Office in an effort to better protect its IT systems and data from increasingly prevalent cybersecurity threats, FedScoop reports.

Both the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission have been sought by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to launch a probe into the cybersecurity failures of UnitedHealth Group that resulted in the massive ransomware attack against Change Healthcare, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Georgia resident Malachi Mullings has been sentenced to a decade-long imprisonment for his involvement in business email compromise and romance scams, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced wire and computer fraud charges against Russian initial access broker Evgeniy Doroshenko, also known as Flanker and FlankerWWH, for allegedly engaging in the sale of access to U.S. corporate networks in a Russian cybercrime forum between February 2019 and May 2024, BleepingComputer reports.

Members of the House Armed Services Committee have approved an amendment to the upcoming fiscal year's defense authorization bill proposed by Reps. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., that would mandate an independent evaluation on the establishment of a dedicated Cyber Force, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

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