New Cooperative's Ransomware Attack Underscores Threat to Food & Agriculture

[TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( September 22, 2021 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [New Cooperative's Ransomware Attack Underscores Threat to Food & Agriculture]( The Iowa grain cooperative took its systems offline in response to a security incident earlier this week. [CTO 2.0: Maiffret Rejoins BeyondTrust]( Hacker-turned-entrepreneur Marc Maiffret reflects on his past few years "embedded" with enterprise security teams and how it has shaped his security view. [Elizabeth Kolade on How AI Is a 'Double-Edged Sword' & the Challenge of Harmonizing Cyber and Physical Security]( An analyst at the Defence Space Administration, Nigeria, Elizabeth Kolade was named in the list of 'One to watch: Security' for the IFSEC Global Influencers in Security and Fire 2021. Julian Hall put some quickfire questions to her on the trends and issues she's witnessing in the sector. [Why Cryptomining Malware Is a Harbinger of Future Attacks]( Crypto thieves rely on users not noticing installation of their tiny payload on thousands of machines, or the CPU cycles being siphoned off to perpetuate the schemes. [US Treasury Dept. Sanctions Suex Cryptocurrency Exchange]( Sanctions are a result of Suex's role in facilitating transactions for ransomware attackers., officials say. [Data Sharing, Added Security Steps Drive Consumers to Shop Elsewhere]( A new survey finds most shoppers will stop a transaction if asked for too much personal information or to complete many security steps. [MORE NEWS /]( [MORE COMMENTARY]( HOT TOPICS [OMIGOD: Azure Users Warned of Critical OMI Vulnerabilities]( Security researchers share the details of four flaws in Open Management Infrastructure, which is deployed on a large number of Linux virtual machines in Azure. [White House Cybersecurity Summit: A Missed Opportunity]( Last month's summit with the president was missing something crucial: representation from those who deal with critical infrastructure. [MORE]( EDITORS' CHOICE [Open Source Software Projects Up Their Security Game but Face More Attacks]( Patches for dependencies are trickling up through the open source ecosystem faster than ever — a good thing because attackers are focusing more on open source software. [OWASP Reshuffles Its Top 10 List, Adds New Categories]( The Open Web Application Security Project reshuffles its list of top threats, putting broken access controls and cryptographic failures at the top and creating three new risk categories. LATEST FROM THE EDGE [10 Threat Trends in DNS Security]( Cisco Security examines Cisco Umbrella data for trends in malicious DNS activity during 2020. [10 Ways to Avoid Zero-Trust Failure]( Here are the prerequisites to have in order before getting past the zero-trust gate. 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