"Take these actions now to protect against China's Volt Typhoon."

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Five Eyes tell critical infra orgs: take these actions now to protect against China's Volt Typhoon

CISA warns against Chinese hackers

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by Jessica Lyons / 3h

Unless you want to be the next Change Healthcare, that is The Feds and friends yesterday issued yet another warning about China's Volt Typhoon gang, this time urging critical infrastructure owners and operators to protect their facilities against destructive cyber attacks that may be brewing.…

Stalkerware usage surging, despite data privacy concerns

by Jessica Lyons / 45min

At least 31,031 people affected last year Stalkerware has reached "pandemic proportions," according to Kaspersky, which documented a total of 31,031 people affected by the intrusive software in 2023 – up almost six percent on the prior year.…

Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation

20by Laura Dobberstein / 2d

875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested Filipino police rescued 875 "workers" – including 504 foreigners – in a raid late last week on a firm that posed as an online gaming company but in reality operated a forced labor camp that housed romance scam operators.…

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Australian techie jailed for accessing museum's accounting system and buying himself stuff

IT contractor jailed for cyber fraud

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by Simon Sharwood / 12h

Also down under, researchers find security-cleared workers leaking details of their gigs An Australian IT contractor has been sentenced to 30 months jail for ripping off the National Maritime Museum.…

Beijing-backed cyberspies attacked 70+ orgs across 23 countries

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by Jessica Lyons / 16h

Plus potential links to I-Soon, researchers say Chinese cyberspies have compromised at least 70 organizations, mostly government entities, and targeted more than 116 victims across the globe, according to security researchers.…

Crypto scams more costly to the US than ransomware, Feds say

by Connor Jones / 18h

Latest figures paint grim picture of how viciously the elderly are targeted The FBI says investment fraud was the form of cybercrime that incurred the greatest financial loss for Americans last year.…

Crypto wallet providers urged to rethink security as criminals drain them of millions

by Connor Jones / 23h

Innovative Ethereum feature exploited as victims say goodbye to assets Infosec researchers are noting rising cryptocurrency attacks and have encouraged wallet security providers to up their collective game.…

Atos says Airbus flew off, no longer interested in infosec and big data biz

Airbus ends talks with Atos

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by Paul Kunert / 1d

Ailing tech integrator takes a hard hit... share price down by up to 20% this morning Atos' share price sank as much as 20 percent this morning on confirmation that Airbus is no longer interested in buying the big data and security (BDS) parts of the crumbling tech empire.…

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Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase

by Thomas Claburn / 1d

Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials At least 900 websites built with Google's Firebase, a cloud database, have been misconfigured, leaving credentials, personal info, and other sensitive data inadvertently exposed to the public internet, according to security researchers.…

Fujitsu reveals malware installed on internal systems, risk of customer data spill

Fujitsu hacked, warns data breach

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by Jessica Lyons / 1d

Sneaky software slips past shields, spurring scramble Fujitsu has confirmed that miscreants have compromised some of its internal computers, deployed malware, and may have stolen some customer information.…

More than 133,000 Fortinet appliances still vulnerable to month-old critical bug

Exploitation for Client Execution (Enterprise T1203)

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by Connor Jones / 1d

A huge attack surface for a vulnerability with various PoCs available The volume of Fortinet boxes exposed to the public internet and vulnerable to a month-old critical security flaw in FortiOS is still extremely high, despite a gradual increase in patching.…

Cyber baddies leak 70M+ files online, claim they're from AT&T

Threat actors leaked AT&T records

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by Jessica Lyons / 1d

Telco reckons data is old, isn't from its systems More than 70 million records, allegedly stolen from AT&T in 2021, were dumped on a cybercrime forum at the weekend.…

Cyberattack gifts esports pros with cheats, forcing Apex Legends to postpone tournament

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by Connor Jones / 2d

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ALGS Regional Finals disrupted by hacking

Virtual gunslingers forcibly became cheaters via mystery means Updated Esports pros competing in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League tournament were forced to abandon their match today due to a