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Lars Daniel reports: T-Mobile is the latest telecommunications company to report being impacted by a large-scale cyber-espionage campaign linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers. While T-Mobile has stated that customer data and critical systems have … Continue reading T-Mobile Hack Linked To Chinese State Sponsored Hackers
Martin Matishak reports: A House Republican late last week introduced legislation to untangle the country’s jumble of cybersecurity regulations, keeping the bipartisan proposal alive as Congress finishes its work for 2024. The measure from Rep. Clay Hi… Continue reading Bipartisan effort to clean up cyber regulations gets a boost in House, but calendar is tight
This was predictable, but it’s also a damned shame. Alexandra Kelley and David DiMolfetta report: Jen Easterly, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s stalwart champion and a figurehead among cybersecurity and intelligence commun… Continue reading CISA Director Jen Easterly to depart on Inauguration Day
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Amazon confirmed a data breach involving employee information after data allegedly stolen during the May 2023 MOVEit attacks was leaked on a hacking forum. The threat actor behind this data leak, known as Nam3L3ss, published over… Continue reading Amazon confirms employee data breach after vendor hack
Jamie Tarabay reports: The Biden administration plans to support a controversial cybercrime treaty at the United Nations this week despite concerns that it could be misused by authoritarian regimes, according to senior government officials. The agreeme… Continue reading Biden Administration to Support Controversial UN Cyber Treaty
Zack Whittaker reports: Folks in America: Your senators only have a few weeks left to pass the PRESS Act, a federal “shield” bill that the House passed with unanimous, bipartisan support in January but has been waiting in the Senate for a final vote ev… Continue reading It’s the Senate’s last chance to pass the bipartisan PRESS Act
While many of us were waking up to the election results yesterday, at least one person was busy trying to extort the president-elect and current vice president. In their post, “kiberphant0m” posted this demand concerning AT&T call logs:… Continue reading Throwing caution to the winds, “kiberphant0m” tries to extort Trump and Harris
From an INTERPOL announcement yessterday: A global INTERPOL operation has taken down more than 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats. Operation Synergia II (1 April – 31 August 2024) specifically targeted phishing, rans… Continue reading INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia II took down 22,000 malicious IP addresses
Margi Murphy and Brian Platt report: Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of being behind a string of hacks involving as many as 165 customers of Snowflake Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Following a request from the U… Continue reading Canada Arrests Man Suspected of Hacks of Snowflake Customers
On October 29, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the government’s appeal of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick’s sentence. At issue was whether District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema had abused her discretion in sentencing … Continue reading Fourth Circuit hears oral arguments about the sentencing of “Pompompurin”