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3rd Party Risk Management Chinese Hackers Breach US Treasury in 'Major Incident' Chris Riotta • December 30, 2024. The U.S. Treasury Department notified lawmakers Friday that the agency was the victim of a major cyberattack in which Chinese-linked hackers gained access to unclassified documents after gaining access to remote workstations through a third-party software provider, BeyondTrust.
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Cloud Security Arrest of US Army Soldier Tied to AT&T and Verizon Extortion. Mathew J. Schwartz • December 31, 2024. A serving member of the U.S. Army has been arrested on a two-count indictment tied to the theft and sale of "confidential phone records," reportedly tied to the theft of terabytes of data from AT&T, Verizon and other customers of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake.
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Black Hat Europe returns to London with more than 45 keynotes and briefings tackling everything from bootloader bugs and flaws in artificial intelligence and large language model tools, to disrupting fake online brokerages and remotely hacking Volkswagen entertainment systems to track vehicles ...
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Cloud Security Arrest of US Army Soldier Tied to AT&T and Verizon Extortion. Mathew J. Schwartz • December 31, 2024. A serving member of the U.S. Army has been arrested on a two-count indictment tied to the theft and sale of "confidential phone records," reportedly tied to the theft of terabytes of data from AT&T, Verizon and other customers of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake.
Chinese Hack Breached US Sanctions Office in Treasury Attack
1 day ago · Chinese nation-state hackers compromised multiple U.S. Treasury Department offices. (Image: Shutterstock) The Chinese-linked hack of the U.S. Department of the Treasury breached bureaus responsible for enforcing sanctions against global criminals. Experts are describing this attack as an escalation ...
Dental Practice Pays State in Alleged Data Breach 'Cover Up'
2 hours ago · Indiana's attorney general alleges Westend Dental attempted to gloss over a 2020 ransomware hack. (Image: Getty Images) An Indiana dental practice agreed to pay the state $350,000 and implement a long list of data security improvements following an alleged "cover up" of a 2020 ransomware data breach that came to light when regulators investigated a patient complaint about unfulfilled requests ...
Patched BitLocker Flaw Still Susceptible to Hack
3 days ago · A previously patched flaw in Windows BitLocker disk encryption feature is susceptible to attacks allowing hackers to decrypt information, new research has found. See Also: Cracking the Code: Securing Machine Identities Speaking at the recently concluded Chaos Communication Congress in Germany ...
US Sanctions Beijing Company for Flax Typhoon Hacking
6 hours ago · Flax Typhoon hackers compromise small office, home office routers to build botnets. (Image: Shutterstock) The U.S. federal government sanctioned a Beijing-based tech company for supporting a Chinese state hacking group tracked as Flax Typhoon. See Also: Corelight's Brian Dye on NDR's Role in ...
How Healthcare Cyber Attacks Broke Records in 2024
Dec 26, 2024 · Image: Getty Images. 2024 was a tumultuous year for cyber in the health sector. Hospitals, doctors and their business associates reported hundreds of health data breaches - including the highly disruptive Change Healthcare ransomware attack that compromised the privacy of 100 million Americans.
2023 Data Breach Investigations Report - DataBreachToday
Jun 22, 2023 · The 2023 Data Breach Investigations report says that 83% of breaches involved external actors—with the majority being financially motivated. Facing today’s