Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The Heritage Foundation gets hacked over Project 2025, a car dealership software provider seems to have paid $25 million to a ransomware gang, and authorities disrupt a Russian bot farm.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:44:16 +0000
Telecom giant AT&T says a major data breach has exposed the call and text records of “nearly all” of its customers, epitomizing the dire state of data security.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:37:09 +0000
The cybercrime boss, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang and was on the FBI’s “most wanted” list for years, has been sentenced to 18 years and ordered to pay more than $73 million.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Google is bringing the password-killing “passkey” tech to its Advanced Protection Program users more than a year after rolling them out broadly.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000
Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Researchers uncover a new way to expose CSAM peddlers, OpenAI suffered a secret cyberattack, cryptocurrency thefts jump in 2024, and Twilio confirms hackers stole 33 million phone numbers.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The US State Department is training diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, telecommunications, and other technology issues, allowing them to advance US policy abroad.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
While Kaspersky and TikTok make very different kinds of software, the US has targeted both over national security concerns. But the looming bans have larger implications for internet freedom.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A cloud company says notorious Russian hacker group APT29 attacked it, Chinese hackers use ransomware to hide their espionage campaigns, and a bank popular with startups discloses a cyberattack.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Giles| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.
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