Massive ‘Typhoon’ cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure and telecoms sought to lay groundwork for potential conflict with Beijing, as intruders gathered data and got in position to impede response and sow chaos
U.S. officials say the sanctioned Chinese firm provided botnet infrastructure for the China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon
The department notified lawmakers of the episode, which it said was linked to a state-sponsored actor in China.
In a letter informing lawmakers of the episode, the Treasury Department said that it had been notified on Dec. 8 by a third-party software service company, BeyondTrust, that the hacker had obtained a security key that allowed it to remotely gain access to certain Treasury workstations and documents on them
Treasury officials attributed the December theft of unclassified documents to China.
The Treasury said it was notified on December 8 by BeyondTrust, a company that provides identity access and remote support tech for large organizations and government departments, that hackers had “gained access to a key used by the vendor” for providing remote access technical support to Treasury employees. BeyondTrust disclosed the incident at the time, but did not say how the key was obtained.
The Department of Homeland Security knows which countries SS7 attacks are primarily originating from. Others include countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people from the state’s social services and health insurance systems, officials said.
FBI and CISA officials have advised Americans to use encrypted call and messaging apps to protect their communications from threat actors.
This guide provides network engineers and defenders of communications infrastructure with best practices to strengthen their visibility and harden their network
Senators briefed on the wide-ranging breaches by Chinese hackers called for action on Wednesday to protect the country's telecommunications networks.
Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security of the nation’s telecommunications networks amid growing alarm at the scope of a Chinese hack.
The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges today against Evgenii Ptitsyn, 42, a Russian national, for allegedly administering the sale, distribution, and operation of Phobos ransomware.
The U.S. Department of justice indicted two hackers for breaking into the systems of AT&T and several other companies.
Health care breaches lead to legislation
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An Elon Musk-funded PAC is targeting Republicans with ads that depict a fever-dream caricature of what Harris would do if elected president.
An unsealed criminal complaint says U.S. investigators used public evidence from various online platforms to identify a Russian national as the alleged creator of the Redline malware.
Most of the funds drained from a U.S. government crypto wallet in an apparent attack Thursday were sent back early Friday.
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
The targeting of the Republican presidential ticket’s phones is part of what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to gather information about American leaders.
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