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US Senator announces new bill to secure telecom companies in wake of Chinese hacks

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U.S. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden announced a new draft bill with the goal of securing American telephone networks and Americans’ communications in response to the massive hack of telecom providers allegedly done by Chinese government hackers.  In a press release on Tuesday, Wyden announced the Secure American Communications Act. The bill would order the Federal […]

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Hackers are exploiting a flaw in popular file-transfer tools to launch mass hacks, again

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Security researchers are warning that hackers are actively exploiting another high-risk vulnerability in a popular file transfer technology to launch mass hacks.  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50623, affects software developed by Illinois-based enterprise software company Cleo, according to researchers at cybersecurity company Huntress.  The flaw was first disclosed by Cleo in a security advisory on

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Ukraine says Russian hackers are targeting country’s defense contractors

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Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) said in a report published over the weekend that a hacking group has been targeting the country’s defense and military companies with phishing attacks.  The CERT identified the hacking group as UAC-0185 — also known as UNC4221 — without saying who was behind the group. Earlier this year, however,

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North Korean hackers have stolen billions in crypto by posing as VCs, recruiters and IT workers

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A venture capitalist, a recruiter from a big company, and a newly hired remote IT worker might not seem to have much in common, but all have been caught as imposters secretly working for the North Korean regime, according to security researchers.  On Friday at Cyberwarcon, an annual conference in Washington DC focused on disruptive

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Russia-linked hackers exploited Firefox and Windows zero-day bugs in ‘widespread’ hacking campaign

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Security researchers have uncovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by RomCom, a Russian-linked hacking group, to target Firefox browser users and Windows device owners across Europe and North America. RomCom is a cybercrime group that is known to carry out cyberattacks and other digital intrusions for the Russian government. The

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Snowflake hackers identified and charged with stealing 50 billion AT&T records

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The U.S. government has accused Connor Moucka and John Binns of being the hackers who broke into the systems of AT&T, stealing around 50 billion customer call and text records.  In July, AT&T said hackers stole the phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers, as well as calls and text message

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Canadian authorities say they arrested hacker linked to Snowflake data breaches

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A hacker suspected of involvement in a series of massive Snowflake-related hacks has been arrested in Canada, according to local authorities. Ian McLeod, a spokesperson for the Canadian Department of Justice, told TechCrunch in an email that, “following a request by the United States, Alexander Moucka (a.k.a. Connor Moucka) was arrested on a provisional arrest

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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 top U.S. officials have described as an “epoch-defining threat.” In recent months, U.S. intelligence officials said Chinese government-backed hackers have been burrowing deep into the networks of U.S. critical infrastructure, including water, energy

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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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