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FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'
China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official.…
DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America
The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones. …
Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry's efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far.…
FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9
The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents for as little as $9.…
How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out
The Pentagon outfit responsible for preventing foriegn agents from infiltrating defense agencies says the US isn't doing a very good job of preventing state secrets from falling into Chinese hands.…
16 billion credentials exposed: why your business needs a password manager now
Partner Content Ever felt that gut punch after losing something important, like your house keys? Now picture those, along with 184 million others, resting in plain sight at the wildest equivalent of Comic-Con for criminals.…
SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot
South Korea's privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record ₩134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that the mobile giant left its network wide open to hackers through a catalog of bungles.…
TransUnion admits 4.5M affected after third-party support app breached
Credit scoring and monitoring biz TransUnion says that it recently suffered a breach affecting nearly 4.5 million individuals.…
Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches
Thousands of Citrix NetScaler appliances remain exposed to a trio of security flaws that the vendor patched this week, one of which is already being actively exploited in the wild.…
Ransomware crooks knock Swedish municipalities offline for measly sum of $168K
Sweden's municipal governments have been knocked offline after ransomware crooks hit IT supplier Miljödata, reportedly demanding the bargain-basement sum of $168,000.…
Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch
Shoppers and merchants in Germany found themselves dealing with billions of euros in frozen transactions this week, thanks to an apparent failure in PayPal's fraud-detection systems.…
Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
A London law firm leaked the details of nearly 200 people who requested to receive updates about the redress scheme set up for victims of abuse at the hands of the Church of England (CoE).…
If you thought China's Salt Typhoon was booted off critical networks, think again
China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies continue their years-long hacking campaign targeting critical industries around the world, according to a joint security alert from cyber and law enforcement agencies across 13 countries.…
ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans
OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams.…
Sting nails two front firms in Nork IT worker scam
The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against two Asian companies and two individuals for allegedly helping North Korean IT workers fake their way into US jobs.…
Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise
comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.…
Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev
A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects - and more than 30 Department of Defense ones - appears to have a sole maintainer whose online profiles identify him as a Yandex employee living in Russia.…
Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack
Nx is the latest target of a software supply chain attack in the NPM ecosystem, with multiple malicious versions being uploaded to the NPM registry on Tuesday evening.…
The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams
Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they'd also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…
Salesforce data missing? It might be due to Salesloft breach, Google says
Google says a recent spate of Salesforce-related breaches was caused by attackers stealing OAuth tokens from the third-party Salesloft Drift app.…
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