BLASTPASS: Government agencies told to secure iPhones against spyware attacks

CISA, the United States’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has ordered federal agencies to patch their iPhones against vulnerabilities that can be used as part of a zero-click attack to install spyware from the notorious NSO Group.

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North Korean hackers targeting vulnerability researchers with zero-day attacks, Google warns

State-sponsored hackers, backed by the regime in North Korea, are believed to be using zero-day exploits to target cybersecurity researchers working in the field of vulnerability research and development.

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Pizza Hut Australia leaks one million customers’ details, claims ShinyHunters hacking group

The ShinyHunters hacking group has claimed that in the last couple of months it has stolen more than 30 million customer order records from Pizza Hut Australia, alongside information on more than one million customers.

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Another data breach at Forever 21 leaks details of 500,000 current and former employees

Fashion chain Forever 21 has suffered what it has described as a “data security incident” that saw a hacker gain access to its systems for months, and exposed the personal details of 539,207 current and former employees.

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Japan’s cybersecurity agency admits it was hacked for months

Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), the agency responsible for the nation’s defences against cyber attacks, has itself been hacked.

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Court finds autistic members of LAPSUS$ gang responsible for GTA 6 hack and other high profile breaches

A London court has found two British teens responsible for a spree of high profile hacks, including one that saw the leaking of source code and videos of Rockstar Games’s as-yet unreleased “Grand Theft Auto 6.”

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North Korea ready to cash out more than $40 million in Bitcoin after summer of hacks, warns FBI

After a series of high-profile cryptocurrency hacks, the state-sponsored North Korean Lazarus Group is poised to cash out millions of dollars.

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