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"My initial reaction was: 'they're doomed,'" cybersecurity expert Patrick Kelley, founder of Critical Path Security, said. Kelley said he was surprised to see funding for Atlanta Information Management drop since the 2018 ransomware attack, based on a report shared with the city's finance committee on March 30. "Most cybersecurity plans are built on a five-year maturity model," Kelley said. "We're not even four years after the recovery of the ransomware event that cost the city millions of dollars." Given limited resources, Kelley said local governments are already at a disadvantage compared to large corporations when it comes to technology funding. "They have to operate with the lowest amount of money that they can possibly get," Kelley said of the challenges, "And have to do the most that they can with it." Yet, he said resources and response time are critical. According to Kelley, it only takes five to six minutes…

On March 22, 2022, the threat group LAPSUS$ announced the compromise of Okta. Okta is an enterprise-grade Multi-Factor and Identity and Access Management (IAM). Recently, the LAPSUS$ group has made statements of breaching high-value targets, but has provided very little evidence of being successful into those attacks. It is now known that the attack on Okta was successful and approximately 366 customers were impacted. Though the details of the attack are still quite limited, what we know is that this attack was likely successful due to phishing or the acquisition of credentials through the bribing of an internal employee. Regardless of the method, based on the screenshots shared by the attacker, it appears that a third-party support engineer's laptop was compromised and legitimate access was used. At this time, we recommend the following actions: Review Okta System logs for unusual "Reset Multifactor" events. Review Okta system logs for unusual "Reset…