Collaborate Disseminate
X’s wave of outages resembled a DDoS attack and Dark Storm Team, a prolific threat group specializing in such attacks, claimed responsibility.
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A pair of data breaches in late 2020 and early 2021 exposed driver’s license numbers of almost 200,000 people.
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The FBI is warning business leaders about the scam perpetrated by an unidentified threat group.
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The Chinese state-backed espionage group started targeting third-party IT services in late 2024, Microsoft researchers said.
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A flurry of unsealed indictments reveal China’s alleged well-coordinated effort to use a hacker-for-hire ecosystem to conduct espionage while obscuring the government’s direct involvement.
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Ransomware groups last year achieved lateral movement within an average of 48 minutes after gaining initial access to targeted environments, threat intelligence experts said.
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Google’s monthly batch of security fixes addressed 43 vulnerabilities.
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Federal prosecutors accuse Cameron Wagenius of searching how to defect to Russia before he tried to sell stolen data to a foreign intelligence service.
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CrowdStrike observed significant growth in China’s offensive cyber capabilities last year as more groups used sector-specific skills to target critical industries and technologies.
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The amount stolen last week surpasses what the group was able to steal in all of 2024.
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