Nate Nelson

New York

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Contributing Writer at Dark Reading

Senior Producer at Malicious Life

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Articles

What NYDFS Rules Mean for Businesses (in and outside of NY)

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

As of May 1, companies operating in the finance industry in New York are subject to a swath of mandatory requirements around cybersecurity monitoring and access controls. The penultimate deadline for complying with 23 NYCRR Part 500 — The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation — came and went yesterday, eight years after the regulation was first adopted.
Experts Debate Real ID Security Ahead of May 7 Deadline

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

Next week, Americans will be barred from flying with driver's licenses that haven't been upgraded to Real IDs. The deadline has been decades in the making, but as the years have passed, experts are now mixed about how effective the card really is, and whether it might just be worth skipping to an entirely better system that some states have already introduced.
Putin's Attacks on Ukraine Rise 70%, With Little Effect

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

Russian cyberattacks against Ukraine rose approximately 70% last year, but the number of truly critical incidents dropped even more, to 84%. New data from the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) shows that in 2024, Ukraine faced more cyberattacks from Russia than ever before, and by some distance. At the same time, though, a historically low number of those have actually materialized into serious events with real consequences.
Vulnerability Exploitation Is Shifting in 2024-25

2 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

The number of vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors may be holding steady, but the types of targeted flaws and the speed with which attackers are weaponizing them should give enterprises concern. Typically in cybersecurity, threats seem to trend in one of two directions: steadily upward or acceleratingly upward. However, attackers may not be exploiting more bugs today than they were even a few years ago.
Vehicles Face 45% More Attacks, 4 Times More Hackers

2 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

Security incidents affecting the automotive and mobility industries shot up nearly 50% in the first quarter of 2025. Recent analysis from Upstream Security indicates an accelerating rate of cyber threats to vehicles and their manufacturers. Upstream researchers tracked 148 publicly disclosed incidents through the first few months of the year — a run rate that, should it continue, will well outpace the 409 incidents seen throughout the entirety of 2024.
'Industrial-Scale' Asian Scam Centers Expand Globally

3 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

Asian crime syndicates are running cyber scam centers at a hyperscale, earning tens of billions of dollars and expanding into new markets westward. That recent phishing email or gift card scam you received — or malicious deepfake you witnessed — might have seemed like it popped up out of nowhere. But behind that attack was a threat actor who most likely wasn't a hooded figure in a basement you might have imagined.
Edge Bugs Soar, Ransoms Lag, SMBs Bedeviled

3 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

2024 refused to fit into long-held cybersecurity narratives. The ransomware ecosystem showed signs of weakness, concerns around generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) haven't borne fruit, and the majority of attacks didn't affect the most lucrative targets. That's the upshot of Verizon Business's its 18th annual "Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR), which it released today and will be expounding on next week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
Chinese APT Mustang Panda Debuts 4 New Attack Tools

3 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

One of China's major state-funded espionage groups has created or otherwise upgraded various malware programs, signaling a notable arsenal refresh that defenders need to be aware of. Mustang Panda (aka Bronze President, Stately Taurus, and TA416) is an advanced persistent threat (APT) believed to be sponsored by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Dogged by Trump, Chris Krebs Resigns from SentinelOne

3 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

A week after he and his employer were formally targeted by the Trump administration, Chris Krebs has resigned from his position at SentinelOne. The yearslong drama between the president and the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) began, and might have seemed to have ended, in late 2020. But four and a half years later, on April 9 of this year, Donald J.
Middle East, North Africa Security Spending to Top $3B

4 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Nate Nelson

Information security investments by organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are expected to top $3 billion this year, according to Gartner. The research firm released its findings at its Security and Risk Management Summit last week in Dubai. Based on survey data procured from its clients, Gartner expects the equivalent of $3.3 billion to flow from MENA into the IT security market before year's end. That reflects a , which itself saw a 14.3% growth in spending.