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U.S. government contractor Conduent, which provides technology to support services such as child support and food assistance, has confirmed that a recent outage was caused by a cybersecurity incident. Conduent confirmed the disruption, which left some U.S. residents without access Read More …
Star Blizzard’s new spear-phishing campaign, while novel in that it uses and targets WhatsApp for the first time, exhibits familiar spear-phishing TTPs for Star Blizzard, with the threat actor initiating email contact with their targets, to engage them, before sending Read More …
Japan on Wednesday linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country’s national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, MirrorFace, detailing their tactics and calling on government agencies and businesses to reinforce Read More …
As part of Washington’s lawsuit, the state claims T-Mobile failed to ‘adequately secure sensitive personal information of more than 2 million Washingtonians’. This failure, the state claims, left those consumers vulnerable to fraud and identity theft. The suit claims that Read More …
The Treasury Department told lawmakers Monday that a state-sponsored actor in China hacked its systems, accessing several user workstations and certain unclassified documents. The treasury was informed on Dec. 8 by a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, that a threat Read More …
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by Read More …
Hackers targeted around ten official websites in Italy on Saturday, including the websites of the Foreign Ministry and Milan’s two airports, putting them out of action temporarily, the country’s cyber security agency said. The pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16) claimed the Read More …
On April 25, the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) experienced a privacy breach. An outside entity, through a phishing campaign, gained access to multiple employee accounts, and files associated with the accounts. The files included the Social Security numbers Read More …
Ukraine government databases, described as critically important infrastructure, have been hit by a cyber attack that’s being blamed on Russia. Deputy prime minister Olha Stefanishyna said it was the largest external cyber attack on the state registers of Ukraine in recent Read More …
The Department of Justice has recorded more than 480 data breaches over the past three years, including the loss of sensitive papers, encrypted devices, and unauthorised access to social media. The breaches occurred across the department including key areas such Read More …
