Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls for Stamping Out Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as Europol Tells Banks To Prep For Quantum Threat

Weekly cybersecurity roundup summarizing guidance and trends: CISA and the FBI urge developers to adopt memory-safe languages and stronger testing to prevent buffer overflows; Europol calls on European banks to begin transitioning to post‑quantum cryptography and improve crypto asset management; Tenable shared cloud security challenge poll results; Google urges governments to treat financially motivated cybercrime as a national security concern; U.S. legislators proposed stiffer penalties for cybercrime conspiracies; and NCC Group reports a 15% rise in global ransomware attacks in 2024 with growing data theft activity.