Bridget Johnson reports: Hackers supporting Iran claimed to be behind today’s Microsoft outage issues while a collective that has urged “epic war” allies to stand as unified “mujahideen” on the cyber front is vowing to target more U.S. companies and conducting fundraising to beef up hackers’ infrastructure. An Iranian group closely linked to CyberAv3ngers that has previously…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a final rule carrying out Executive Order (EO) 14117, which prevents mass transfer of citizens’ personal data to countries of concern such as China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela. “This final rule is a crucial step forward in addressing the…
This will likely come as no surprise to many, but Spiegel International reports: Donald Trump’s most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet. According to…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four malicious NuGet packages that are designed to target ASP.NET web application developers to steal sensitive data. The campaign, discovered by Socket, exfiltrates ASP.NET Identity data, including user accounts, role assignments, and permission mappings, as well as manipulates authorization rules to create persistent backdoors in victim applications.
Tushar Subhra Dutta reports: Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers have detained two hackers in Siberia who conducted cyberattacks on critical infrastructure facilities under direct orders from Ukrainian intelligence services. The simultaneous arrests in the Kemerovo and Tomsk regions exposed a sophisticated cyber espionage network targeting Russia’s governmental, industrial, and financial information systems. The primary suspect, a…
Amazon’s threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a “years-long” Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical infrastructure between 2021 and 2025. Targets of the campaign included energy sector organizations across Western nations, critical infrastructure providers in North America and Europe, and entities with cloud-hosted network infrastructure. The activity has
Sharon Lurye of The Associated Press and Claire Bryan of The Seattle Times report: Thousands of American schools are turning to AI-powered surveillance technology for 24/7 monitoring of student accounts and school-issued devices like laptops and tablets. The goal is to keep children safe, especially amid a mental health crisis and the threat of school shootings. Machine-learning algorithms detect potential indicators of problems…
