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CISA says ‘no indication’ of wider government hack beyond Treasury

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U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said in a brief statement Monday that there is “no indication” that any other U.S. federal agency was hacked during a recent cyberattack at the U.S. Treasury Department in December. The Treasury confirmed the breach on December 30, attributing the intrusion to China government-backed hackers, telling senior U.S. lawmakers in a […]

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Meet the Chinese ‘Typhoon’ hackers preparing for war

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Of the cybersecurity risks facing the United States today, few loom larger than the potential sabotage capabilities posed by China-backed hackers, which senior U.S. national security officials have described as an “epoch-defining threat.” The U.S. says Chinese government-backed hackers have — in some cases for years — been burrowing deep into the networks of U.S.

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US sanctions Chinese cyber firm linked to Flax Typhoon hacks

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The U.S. government has sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company over its alleged links to a China government-backed hacking group, tracked as Flax Typhoon. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced the sanctions against the Integrity Technology Group for its role in “multiple computer intrusion incidents against U.S. victims,” including U.S.

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Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people’s identity documents

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A U.S. online gift card store has secured an online storage server that was publicly exposing hundreds of thousands of customer government-issued identity documents to the internet. A security researcher, who goes by the online handle JayeLTee, found the publicly exposed storage server late last year containing driving licenses, passports and other identity documents belonging

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Chinese government hackers reportedly targeted US Treasury’s sanctions office during December cyberattack

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Chinese government hackers targeted the U.S. Treasury’s highly sensitive sanctions office during a December cyberattack, according to reports. According to The Washington Post, the state-sponsored hackers targeted the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a government department that imposes economic and trade sanctions against countries and individuals, to potentially access information on Chinese organizations that

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US telco Lumen says its network is now clear of China’s Salt Typhoon hackers

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Lumen, one of at least nine U.S. telecommunications firms reportedly compromised by Salt Typhoon hackers, says the Chinese hacking group is no longer in its network. Lumen spokesperson Mark Molzen told TechCrunch that an independent forensic analysis confirmed the company ejected the Chinese actors from its network, adding that there is “no evidence that customer

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New Year’s cybersecurity resolutions that every startup should keep

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As regular readers of TechCrunch will know, 2024 was — much like the years before it — full of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and mass-hacks exploiting some of the most trivial software vulnerabilities. Even the most well-resourced organizations failed to keep hackers out of their systems over the past twelve months. AT&T experienced its second

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US Treasury says China stole documents in ‘major’ cyberattack

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The U.S. Treasury told lawmakers in a letter Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack earlier in December, which the department has attributed to Chinese government hackers. In the letter shared with senior U.S. House lawmakers, which TechCrunch has seen, the Treasury said the hackers gained remote access to certain Treasury employee workstations and

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Volkswagen leak exposed precise location data on thousands of vehicles across Europe for months

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Volkswagen Group’s troubled automotive software unit Cariad left terabytes of customer data on around 800,000 electric Audi, Seat, Skoda, and Volkswagen vehicles exposed to the internet for months, reports Der Spiegel [in German], citing security researchers who learned about the data spill from an unnamed whistleblower. The researchers, who gave their talk at the Chaos

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