According to the insurance broker Marsh, cyber insurance claims reached all-time highs in 2023, with over 1,800 claims coming from the US and Canada.

Microsoft has a new plan to emphasize cybersecurity. For high-level execs, their cybersecurity work will make up a third of their performance. And other employees will also be evaluated on their cybersecurity efforts in their six-month reviews.

A hybrid biometric access system from the Chinese manufacturer ZKTeco has two dozen security vulnerabilities that attackers could use to bypass authentication, steal biometric data, and install malicious backdoors.

Researchers at ESET discovered five cyber espionage campaigns targeting Android users in Egypt and Palestine with trojanized apps. The campaigns have been attributed to the "Arid Viper" hacking group with medium confidence.

In a recent Bitdefender survey, 96 percent of participating cybersecurity professionals agreed that generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology threatens overall cybersecurity.

In summer 2023, Microsoft President Brad Smith admitted that security failings enabled Chinese state hackers to access US government officials' emails.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns federal agencies of the ongoing exploitation of a patched authentication bypass vulnerability in Progress Software's Telerik Report Server.

Cisco Talos and Volexity warn that Pakistan-based threat actors have targeted Indian government entities in two espionage campaigns.

Edge devices, services, and network infrastructure devices often start mass exploitation attacks. There has been a rise of mass exploitation compromises and criminal targeting of edge and infrastructure devices.

Matthew Feeney, head of tech and innovation at the UK-based Centre for Policy Studies, warned of the deepfake threat to election integrity. The tech policy expert emphasized how technology has made deepfakes easier and cheaper to make.

GitHub has recently announced that through its bug bounty program, which the company launched ten years ago, it has paid out more than $4 million.  In 2023, the bug bounty paid out exceeded $850,000.

Rockwell Automation recently announced that it has patched three high-severity vulnerabilities in its FactoryTalk View Site Edition (SE) HMI software.