Not everything has to be a massive, global cyber attack
Summary: Cisco Talos notes that after an 11-hour AT&T cellular outage and a multi-hour Meta platform outage, users and media quickly speculated about state-sponsored cyber attacks, though AT&T attributed its outage to a technical error during a network capacity upgrade and Meta cited a "technical issue." The piece also covers a GhostRace CPU vulnerability (CVE-2024-2193) affecting Intel, AMD, Arm and IBM chips, Change Healthcare providers losing an estimated $100 million daily after a February ransomware attack, and U.S. sanctions on two individuals and five entities tied to the Intellexa Consortium's Predator spyware.
What you should know: Talos warns that treating every outage as an attack creates a "boy who cried wolf" problem, so when a real incident demands immediate patching, consumers may not act - while aging, end-of-life routers and switches remain a standing foothold for APTs.
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