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The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Google TAG Warns of North Korean-linked ARCHIPELAGO Cyberattacks

A North Korean government-backed threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, an…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

Microsoft Uncovers New Details of Russian Hacking Campaign Targeting Ukraine

Microsoft on Friday shared more of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) adopted by the Russia-based Gamaredon hacking group to facilitate a barrage o…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Ukraine: Recent Cyber Attacks Part of Wider Plot to Sabotage Critical Infrastructure

The coordinated cyberattacks targetingUkrainian government websitesand the deployment of a data-wiper malware calledWhisperGateon select government systems are…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

U.S. Charges Ukrainian Hacker for Kaseya Attack; Seizes $6 Million from REvil Gang

The U.S. government on Monday charged a Ukrainian suspect, arrested in Poland last month, with deploying REvil ransomware to target multiple businesses and gov…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

Microsoft, Google to Invest $30 Billion in Cybersecurity Over Next 5 Years

Google and Microsoft said they are pledging to invest a total of $30 billion in cybersecurity advancements over the next five years, as the U.S. governmentÂpar…

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
LinuxSecurity - Security Articles

Washington State Lawmakers Introduce Legislation Regulating Data Privacy, Facial Recogniti

Following in the footsteps of their West Coast neighbors, Washington state legislators have introduced legislation to regulate consumer data privacy and the go…

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
LinuxSecurity - Security Articles

Russias sovereign internet law comes into force

The Russian government calls it the sovereign internet' law and from 1 November it compels the country's ISPs to forward all data arriving and departing from t…

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
LinuxSecurity - Security Articles

Apple, Google and others condemn UK plan to view encrypted chats

Major players within the tech industry have long-opposed the idea of government access to users' messages and chat conversations -- now they're continuing the …

Apple

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net

Syrian Man Sentenced for Wide-Ranging Hacking Conspiracy Conducted on Behalf of the Bashar Al Assad Regime

Ahmad Umar Agha (also known as Th3Pr0) had spent more than a decade as a fugitive for targeting of Western media entities, businesses, NGOs, and U.S. and allie…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Russia's statistics agency confirms cyberattack claimed by Belarusian and Ukrainian hackers

An alliance of Belarusian and pro-Ukrainian hackers claimed to have taken out Russia's federal statistics agency, Rosstat, and stolen vast amounts of sensitive…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Limited reports of PHP bug exploitation emerge

One cyber firm listed a half-dozen exploitations of the PHP2Shell bugs, and another identified a well targeted, suspected Chinese campaign that breached U.S. "…

PHP

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Student SSNs and Medicaid IDs Exposed in Frontline School Software Breach

Kalleigh Lane reports: If your school district used Frontline Central or School Health Management, your Social Security number, date of birth, or government ID…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

UK to look at making software companies liable for cyber breaches

The new U.K. budget says the government will "consider where liability for cyber breaches should sit," potentially a landmark shift for a country that has reli…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

Nefilim and Hive ransomware affiliate gets 70 months in prison

A Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government entities, and high-revenue busines…

The Record
The Record

UK proposes 14-year prison terms for undersea cable sabotage

In an era of hybrid threats, the British government wants to update the Submarine Telegraph Act 1885, which carries a maximum fine of £1,000 and five years’ im…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Microsoft blames ConnectWise attacks on Chinese state hacker using ARTEX AI agents

A Chinese government-aligned hacking group used automated tools to carry out the recent supply chain attack on IT management software company ConnectWise and i…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer

DHS bans DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems.…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Welsh firms ‘Password1’ and ‘Test 2’ fails led to hackers stealing children’s data

Alex Hickey reports: Two Welsh organisations have been censured by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a ransomware attack led to the theft of pe…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge

A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conferen…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Baltimore suburb confirms August data breach after ransomware claims

Anne Arundel County, Maryland, said an intruder stole files from government systems, and investigators are working to assess how much data was exposed.

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

BAE Systems cyberattack disrupts US federal court operations

The Administrative Office of the US Courts says a cyberattack on government contractor BAE Systems has taken down the notice system used by federal bankruptcy …

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack

The incident, which involved a government contractor, has halted all production of bankruptcy notices.

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

Citizen Lab Traces Zero-Click Candiru Spyware Infections at Al Jazeera to Targeted Online Ads

Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed n…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

UK Legal Aid Agency hack worse than thought, with stolen records dating back to 1978

A cyberattack on Britain’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA) stole far older and broader records than the government previously disclosed.