Collaborate Disseminate
Fatima Hussein reports: The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday confirmed it had been hacked, potentially disclosing important government data to malicious actors. The small government office, with some 275 employees, provides objective, impartial … Continue reading The Congressional Budget Office was hacked. It says it has implemented new security measures.
Pierluigi Paganini reports: The Clop Ransomware group announced the hack of the prestigious American daily newspaper The Washington Post. The cybercrime group created a page for the university on its Tor data leak site and announced it will leak the st… Continue reading Clop Ransomware group claims the breach of The Washington Post
Suzanne Smalley reports: Lawmakers in the European Union’s Parliament on Tuesday voted to greenlight a proposal which would allow Europol to expand data sharing and biometric data collection as part of its effort to fight human trafficking and mi… Continue reading EU Parliament committee votes to advance controversial Europol data sharing proposal
Belgian News Agency reports: A DDoS cyberattack briefly disrupted the websites of Belgian telecom operators Proximus and Scarlet on Wednesday morning. The pro-Russian hacker group NoName057 claimed responsibility for the attack via Telegram. Ghent Univ… Continue reading Pro-Russian hackers target Belgian telecom websites in DDoS attack
Mark Pearson reports: According to an official document newly released by the Nevada office responsible for the state’s technology infrastructure, Nevada’s state systems sat unknowingly compromised for three months before officials noticed a major rans… Continue reading Nevada Refused to Pay Cyberattack Ransom as Systems Sat Compromised for Months
Alys Keys reports: Former Buzzfeed journalist Anne Helen Petersen had been putting the final touches on the latest episode of her podcast last month when an email landed in her inbox. It warned of suspicious activity on her Substack account and said he… Continue reading Journalists going solo on Substack at risk from hackers
Chang Dong-woo reports: KT Corp., South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, was found to have concealed critical malware infections and failed to report the security breaches that led to a recent hacking and data theft incident, a government-l… Continue reading Kr: Investigation shows KT concealed malware infections, security failures leading to hacking breach
MM News reports: In a shocking revelation, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior was told that hackers have defrauded several members of Parliament of hundreds of thousands of rupees through online scams. During the committee meeting, chaired by Se… Continue reading Hackers defraud multiple lawmakers, a Pakistan Senate committee told
Peggy Lowe and Dhruv Mehrotra report: A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest. In 2011, af… Continue reading Hack exposes Kansas City, Kansas, Police’s secret officer misconduct list
Divya reports: Swedish authorities have launched formal investigations into a significant data breach affecting Miljödata, a prominent IT company whose security lapse exposed the personal information of over 1.5 million individuals. The Swedish Data Pr… Continue reading Swedish IT Company Data Breach Exposes Personal Details of 1.5 Million Users