U.S. senators have introduced a bipartisan bill to boost cybersecurity in healthcare following major attacks like the one on UnitedHealth Group. The bill provides cybersecurity training and prevention grants, and mandatory incident response planning for the health sector. Other cybersecurity news includes Fortinet’s report on holiday-related cyber threats, Commvault’s solution for recovering Amazon S3 datasets, a report detailing how malware hides in archives, and research on the pro-India, pro-Russia hacktivist collective CyberVolk.

Federal firings and office closures create concerns for miners
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