As farming has become increasingly reliant on data, cloud computing, and remote monitoring, the sector has suffered a growing number of cyberattacks. In 2021, a ransomware attack on major meat producer JBS shut down its U.S. facilities: fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

Until recently, Congress had largely focused on the threat of foreign acquisition of agricultural lands. Chinese companies have been buying up land near U.S. military installations, primarily with the goal of surveilling and monitoring activity. fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

📰 via The Associated Press: Philippine authorities raided a suspected illegal online gaming and cyberscam complex in a central province and took into custody more than 160 people — mostly Chinese & Indonesians — who were committing internet-based crimes, officials said apnews.com/article/philip…

📰 via CyberScoop: A bipartisan Senate bill aimed at safeguarding Americans’ health care data in the aftermath of the Change Healthcare ransomware attack now has a House companion. cyberscoop.com/house-bill-cyb…

📰 via The Record From Recorded Future News: People and organizations in China are being targeted as part of a “highly coordinated” espionage operation, according to new research from Securonix. therecord.media/espionage-camp…

📰 via The Record From Recorded Future News: Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to running a website that helped fraudsters evade banking security checks during the COVID-19 lockdown, allowing criminals to target more than 12,500 members of the public. therecord.media/guilty-pleas-u…

Given the increasing reliance on digital communications, the use of online disinformation and fake information networks is only likely to increase, said FDD's Max Lesser in The Associated Press: apnews.com/article/china-…

📰 via The Washington Post: Some of the most criticized names in the secretive business of selling high-end surveillance tools to government spies have continued to thrive despite international efforts to regulate the market, fresh research shows. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

📰 via Reuters: Artificial intelligence could hurt oil prices over the next decade by boosting supply by potentially reducing costs via improved logistics and increasing the amount of profitably recoverable resources, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday. reuters.com/technology/art…

📰 via @Politico: Hackers apparently breached the social media accounts of Lara and Tiffany Trump on Tuesday, distributing what the former president’s son said were two fake posts touting a family cryptocurrency venture. politico.com/news/2024/09/0…

“We're dodging a bullet right now,” said Mark Montgomery in The Record From Recorded Future News. “This sector is currently not the focus of ransomware and cyber-criminal behavior… but their time in the target set is coming.” Read more here: therecord.media/government-is-…

📰 via Reuters: Australia’s centre-left government said on Thursday it planned to introduce targeted artificial intelligence rules including human intervention and transparency amid a rapid rollout of AI tools by businesses and in everyday life. reuters.com/technology/art…

📰 via The Record From Recorded Future News: Politically motivated hackers linked to Russia and Belarus are targeting Latvian government and critical infrastructure websites in a new wave of cyberattacks, according to Latvian cybersecurity officials. therecord.media/latvia-website…

“Just as TikTok has raised concerns about data collection and influence operations, this situation underscores the lengths to which China is willing to go to infiltrate and manipulate American institutions from within,” Craig Singleton says in NBC News: nbcnews.com/investigations…

📰 via The Record From Recorded Future News: The powerful commercial surveillance tool Predator may have taken a beating in March when U.S. officials announced sweeping sanctions against the spyware purveyor’s parent company and leadership, but in just the latest example of the industry’s

📰 via The New York Times: The US expanded its hunt for Russia’s most elite cyberwarriors, indicting five members of the country’s military intelligence agency for attacks on Ukraine and American companies in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/…

📰 via The Record From Recorded Future News: Employee contact information and hashed passwords were stolen by hackers who breached the systems of Microchip Technology, one of the largest American semiconductor manufacturers. therecord.media/microchip-tech…

After previously trending positive, cyber is trending neutral in this month’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. More here from Annie Fixler and Mark Montgomery: fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

FDD Identifies 19 Websites as Part of an Iranian Global Influence Operation New FDD Policy Brief by Max Lesser and Ari Ben Am: fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

Biden FP Tracker: Cyber Washington and its allies acquiesced to a UN committee’s passage of a flawed cybercrime treaty backed by Russia and China. The General Assembly will vote on the treaty later this fall More from Annie Fixler and Mark Montgomery: fdd.org/analysis/2024/…