Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they’d get it CYBERUK  Intervention is required to ensure the security market holds vendors to account for shipping insecure wares – imposing costs on those whose failures lead to cyberattacks and having to draft in cleanup crews. The security market must properly incentivize security vendors to do security better.… READ MORE HERE…

Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he’s not releasing it RSAC  If Rapid7’s Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he’d innovate: CPU ransomware.… READ MORE HERE…

The FBI also issued a list of end-of-life routers you need to replace Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four foreign nationals accused of running a long-running proxy-for-hire network that exploited outdated routers to funnel criminal traffic.… READ MORE HERE…

France’s share of MOD cash is growing while the US’s shrinks The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) is gradually shifting its spending from the US to Europe, according to research from Tussell.… READ MORE HERE…

Weapons-grade fuel for fraud Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more.… READ MORE HERE…

CEO: Neural net tech ‘flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate’ CrowdStrike – the Texas antivirus slinger famous for crashing millions of Windows machines last year – plans to cut five percent of its staff, or about 500 workers, in pursuit of “greater efficiencies,” according to CEO and co-founder George Kurtz.… READ MORE HERE…