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Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Apple, bill marczak, citizen lab, cve-2025-43200, emerita melissa hortman, federal bureau of investigation, Google, international computer science institute, john hoffman, kash patel, Latest Warnings, lockdown mode, lorenzo francheschi-bicchierai, nicholas weaver, security tools, sen. ron wyden, susie wiles, The Coming Storm, the wall street journal, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:33:59 +0000

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren’t doing enough to recommend more appropriate security protections that are already built into most consumer mobile devices.

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New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’

August 27, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, black lotus labs, bronze silhouette, christopher wray, cve-2024-39717, cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency, federal bureau of investigation, insidious taurus, internet of things (iot), kv-botnet, Latest Warnings, lumen technologies, michael horka, National Security Agency, ryan english, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of justice, versa director 22.1.4, volt typhoon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:26:41 +0000

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.

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U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

August 29, 2023 0 Comments doj, don alway, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, Latest Warnings, martin estrada, qakbot, Qbot, Ransomware, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of justice

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:35:25 +0000

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.

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Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile

June 14, 2022 0 Comments accenture security, advanced intel, anydesk, chainalysis, cirt, cisa, cobalt strike, conti ransomware, cyber incident response team, Cybercrime, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, diavol, diavol ransomware, dridex, evil corp, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, FileZilla, karakurt, karakurt extortion group, karakurt lair, karakurt team, kimberly goody, mandiant, mega.io, MFA, mimikatz, multi-factor authentication, ncc, ransomhouse, Ransomware, ransomware syndicate, rclone, tetra defense, virtual private network, vpn, wall street journal

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:00:29 +0000

An obscure group called Karakurt has extorted organizations in the US and elsewhere. Know how to keep it away from your network.

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