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The reported scope of the Salt Typhoon hacks has expanded in recent days and weeks, from the incoming president to top U.S. officials.
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Read more about a joint operation between several law enforcement agencies across the globe to tackle RedLine Stealer and META malware. Continue reading Operation Magnus: Joint Law Enforcement Operation Targets Major Infostealer Networks
Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China. Continue reading New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’
The FBI spotted this state-sponsored attack that highlights how home office setups can be overlooked when it comes to employees’ cybersecurity. Continue reading Botnet Attack Targeted Routers: A Wake-Up Call for Securing Remote Employees’ Hardware
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet’s online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computer systems. Continue reading U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections
U.S. federal investigators today raided the U.S. offices of PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the raid is tied to reports that PAX’s systems may have been involved in cyberattacks on U.S. and E.U. organizations. Continue reading FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology
An FBI cybersecurity guide instructs local police officers on how to avoid surveillance and harassment online amid ongoing protests against police brutality throughout the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Investigation instructions include a range of advisories for smaller police agencies, ranging from ways to avoid harassment on Facebook to the best ways to remove personal information from publicly available databases. The 354-page document, titled “Digital Exhaust Opt Out Guide,” was released publicly in June as part of the BlueLeaks data dump, a trove of law enforcement materials made public by transparency activists calling themselves Distributed Denial of Secrets. Federal authorities have distributed the guidelines to local police fusion centers — the state-operated hubs where federal, state, local and other law enforcement agencies share threat information and training tools — amid protests over the death of George Floyd and other unarmed Black Americans at the hands of police. A number of […]
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The APT’s new cyber-attack tools are laid bare on three-year anniversary of WannaCry. Continue reading Feds Reveal Hidden Cobra’s Trove of Espionage Tools
Cybereason, which uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across a network of distributed resources, has raised $200 million in new financing from SoftBank Group and its affiliates. It’s a sign of the belief that SoftBank has in the technology, since the Japanese investment firm is basically doubling […] Continue reading Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform
In an era of massive data breaches, most recently the Capital One fiasco, the risk of a cyberattack and the costly consequences are the top existential threat to corporations big and small. At TechCrunch’s first-ever enterprise-focused event (p.s. early bird sales end August 9), that topic will be front and center throughout the day. That’s […] Continue reading United Airlines CISO Emily Heath joins TC Sessions: Enterprise this September