U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon announced a new bill to secure the networks of American telecommunications companies breached by Salt Typhoon Chinese state hackers earlier this year. […]
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The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency is warning about last-minute influence operations conducted by Iranian and Russian actors to undermine the public trust in the integrity and fairness of the upcoming presidential election. […]
Discord has been suddenly blocked in Russia and Turkey since yesterday due to illegal activity residing on the platform, leaving legitimate users in those countries unable to visit the website or connect to the service. […]
An APT hacking group known as GoldenJackal has successfully breached air-gapped government systems in Europe using two custom toolsets to steal sensitive data, like emails, encryption keys, images, archives, and documents. […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) federal agency announced earlier this month that health and personal information of more than three million health plan beneficiaries was exposed in the MOVEit attacks Cl0p ransomware conducted last year. […]
German law enforcement seized 47 cryptocurrency exchange services hosted in the country that facilitated illegal money laundering activities for cybercriminals, including ransomware gangs. […]
Europol and law enforcement from nine countries successfully dismantled an encrypted communications platform called “Ghost,” which was used by organized crime such as drug trafficking and money laundering. […]
The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of illegally downloading and disseminating data stolen from the City’s IT network and leaked by the Rhysida ransomware gang. […]
An audit from the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) identified “significant weaknesses” in FBI’s inventory management and disposal of electronic storage media containing sensitive and classified information. […]
A 39-year old man from Somerset, Kentucky, was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison for identity theft and faking his own death in government registry systems. […]