The U.S. government on Friday sanctioned a Chinese company that Western nations had connected to a Beijing-sponsored hacking group’s botnet, which had compromised hundreds of thousands of devices before a joint takedown operation last year. Flax Typhoon hackers made use of infrastructure at Integrity Technology Group to exploit victims, according to the Treasury Department’s Office…
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Study finds ‘significant uptick’ in cybersecurity disclosures to SEC
The introduction of new cybersecurity disclosure rules by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has led to a significant uptick in the number of reported cybersecurity incidents from public companies, according to a leading U.S. law firm that specializes in finance and M&A activity. Analysis by Paul Hastings LLP found that since the disclosure law…