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American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems

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U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last week.  American Water, which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across the United States, confirmed the security incident in an 8-K regulatory filing with the U.S. […]

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U.S. government ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director

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Last week, the FBI took control of a botnet made up of hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, such as cameras, video recorders, storage devices, and routers, which was run by a Chinese government hacking group, FBI director Christopher Wray and U.S. government agencies revealed Wednesday. The hacking group, dubbed Flax Typhoon, was “targeting critical

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Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs

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If you ask ChatGPT to help you make a homemade fertilizer bomb, similar to the one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist bombing, the chatbot refuses.  “I can’t assist with that,” ChatGPT told me during a test on Tuesday. “Providing instructions on how to create dangerous or illegal items, such as a fertilizer bomb,

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North Korean hackers exploited Chrome zero-day to steal crypto

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A North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a previously unknown bug in Chrome to target organizations with the goal of stealing cryptocurrency, according to Microsoft. In a report published on Friday, the tech giant’s cybersecurity researchers said they first saw evidence of the hackers’ activities on August 19, and said the hackers were

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Chinese government hackers targeted U.S. internet providers with zero-day exploit, researchers say

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A group of hackers linked to the Chinese government used a previously unknown vulnerability in software to target U.S. internet service providers, security researchers have found.  The group known as Volt Typhoon was exploiting the zero-day flaw — meaning the software maker was unaware of it before having time to patch — in Versa Director,

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Ecovacs says it will fix bugs that can be abused to spy on robot owners

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Earlier this month, security researchers warned that a series of security flaws in vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs could allow hackers to spy on their owners through the devices’ microphones and cameras.  At the time, Ecovacs told TechCrunch it concluded that the flaws found by the researchers “are extremely rare in typical

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Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

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This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen from the Donald Trump presidential campaign.  Since then, we have learned that The New York Times and The Washington Post have also heard from the same person and received some stolen documents.

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Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say

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Malicious hackers can take over control of vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs to spy on their owners using the devices’ cameras and microphones, new research has found. Security researchers Dennis Giese and Braelynn are due to speak at the Def Con hacking conference on Saturday detailing their research into Ecovacs robots. When

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How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang

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Earlier this year, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies took control of the dark web site of the notorious ransomware gang LockBit, replacing its content with the now-familiar message from the authorities: “This site is now under the control of law enforcement.” The operation didn’t disrupt the group’s operation for too long, with the

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