A little sleuthing on the SEC’s SIM swap attack indicates that the mobile carrier involved in that incident is likely the one that accounted for 98% of the agency’s mobile phone spending in 2020. On January 9, the Twitter account of Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Securities and
Apple gears up for quantum computing with new defensive protocol, State Dept. ups rewards for LockBit gang info, Oz finance dept. beset by another data leak, Chinese nationals found guilty of defrauding Apple, PSI Software confirms ransomware attack, SSH-Snake hunts for private keys, much more
Treasury sanctions two LockBit members, Signal boosts phone number privacy, Oz ISP Tangerine hit by hackers, Fulton Co. confirms it did not pay LockBit, Severe flaw found in ScreenConnect servers, Alleged Medibank hacker busted by Russia, Joyce to leave NSA, 150,00 banking trojans dropped on Google Play, Tinder enhances
Alleged treasure trove of Chinese offensive operations leaked, FixedFloat exchange exploited for $26m, UK higher ed hit by DDoS attacks, Cactus gang claims 1.5TB data theft from Schneider Electric, Global defense sector targeted by DPRK, Zenlayer leak exposes 380 million records, much more
Fulton County presumably paid LockBit ransom, Massive spam campaign hit Mastodon, Ukraine cops busted breached accounts seller, New NSO Group infection technique discovered, Russian hackers exploit Roundcube email server flaw, Wyze co-founder admits camera security issue, Russian hackers target Ukraine media outlets, Beam network lost $5m in phishing scam, much
Marginalized communities hit harder by cyberattacks, Deepfakes complicate elections, AI threatens robots.txt files, Data centers scar Ireland
US hit Iranian intel-gathering military ship with a cyberattack, State Dept. offers $10m for ALPHV leaders info, Zeus malware operator pleads guilty, Meta took actions against spyware firms, Cybercrims steal face scans, Crypto money laundering dropped in 2023, Google launches AI defense initiative, much more
ISP Internet Corp published thousands of clients' emails, Cyberattack forces German battery maker to shut down five plants, LockBit claims Fulton County attack, Exchange Server zero-day exploited before Patch Tuesday, Ethical crypto hacker alliance created, KeyTrap security hole can exhaust DNS servers, S. Korean cybercrime ring buys websites from
DRPK hackers targeted aide to S. Korean president, Poland PM claims Pegasus spying on 'long list' of victims, GAO hack tied to Atlassian bug, Prudential Financial claims cybercrime group hack, PlayDapp lost $290m through exploit, so much more
BofA customers affected by breach, Hundreds of Microsoft Azure accounts compromised by phishing, GAO employees caught in breach, FCC modifies breach reporting rules, CO state public defender hit by attack, France finds massive RU misinfo effort, much more
Duke Energy to decommission Chinese batteries, Canada to ban Flipper Zero, 17-year-old finds Juniper data leak, Prince Harry settles phone hacking claims, much more
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