Biden Administration Warns Governors of 'Disabling' Water System Attacks

Cynthia B Brumfield

Mar 20, 2024 — 12 min read

Huawei-linked chip firms could land on entity list, Misconfigured Firebase databases exposed 19m plaintext passwords, Fujitsu database exposed a wealth of info including plaintext passwords, Ukraine busts alleged brute force password thieves, Tornado Cash founder indicted for money laundering, $2.6m phished via fake crypto trader's X account, Lifelock pleads guilty to computer fraud and abuse, PhantomBlu targets hundreds of US Microsoft Office users, Airbus abandons Atos buy, much more

Interpol Busts 1,006 Suspects in Africa for a Host of Financial Cybercrimes

The third Snowflake suspect might be a US Army soldier, US court reverses sanctions on Tornado Cash, RomCom group chained zero days to target Firefox and Tor browsers, Uniswap offers $15.5m bug bounty, CrowdStrike can't gauge financial impact of July outage yet, much more

Supply Chain Cyberattack Disrupts Giant Retailers Including Starbucks, Sainsburys

NY fines Geico and Travelers $11.3m over 2020 hacks, Oz passes standalone Cyber Security Act, Long-withheld LifeLabs investigation released, Liverpool hospital goes down due to cyber incident, IT worker sentenced to four years for sharing data with China, QNAP issues flurry of fixes, much more

China Is Prepositioning Itself to Carry Out Disruptive Attacks, Cyber Command

WH summoned telecom chiefs to talk Chinese hackers, Fancy Bear uses new nearest neighbor attack technique, China's Glassbridge group operates hundreds of fake news sites, Chinese citizens sell surveillance data, Microsoft Recall rolls out to insiders, Thai cops bust SMS phish blaster, much more

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 11/16/24

Israeli spyware poised to spy on Americans, AI pimps exploit real-life videos, Clear wants to become the Amazon of identity services, Active cyber defense may make a comeback in Germany, Trump might put an end to Microsoft and Google-backed Chinese censorship and surveillance startups

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Interpol Busts 1,006 Suspects in Africa for a Host of Financial Cybercrimes

Supply Chain Cyberattack Disrupts Giant Retailers Including Starbucks, Sainsburys

China Is Prepositioning Itself to Carry Out Disruptive Attacks, Cyber Command

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 11/16/24