Jason Meisner reports: The high-tech cyber hacker who goes by the online moniker “Bouquet” jetted around the world, from Dubai to Thailand to New York, staying in five-star hotels and flashing cash and jewels, federal authorities allege. As his internet attacks grew bolder and more sophisticated, he taunted the FBI for being a step behind,…
AUSTIN, Texas – The Department of Justice announced the unsealing of charges against Canadian national Aubrey Cottle, 37, of Oshawa, Ontario, in connection with the theft of data relating to the Texas Republican Party in 2021. Canadian authorities arrested Cottle on Wednesday and are pursuing charges under Canadian law. A criminal complaint filed in the…
Andy Dossett reports: A network security incident crippled Bartlesville Public Schools’ internet systems, forcing the district to cancel state testing and prompted an investigation into the scope of the breach. Granger Meador, executive director of technology and communications for the district, confirmed May 1 that the disruption rendered many of the district’s computer systems inoperable….
The threat actor known as Bitter has been assessed to be a state-backed hacking group that’s tasked with gathering intelligence that aligns with the interests of the Indian government. That’s according to new findings jointly published by Proofpoint and Threatray in an exhaustive two-part analysis. “Their diverse toolset shows consistent coding patterns across malware families,…
A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET. “The attackers replaced the legitimate installer with one that also deployed the group’s signature implant that we have named…
Thea Felicity reports: The anti-ICE activist app and website StopICE has reportedly suffered a major security breach, exposing the personal information of more than 100,000 users to US federal agencies, including the FBI, ICE and HSI. Hackers said they accessed names, logins, passwords, phone numbers and GPS coordinates, and sent the data directly to authorities. One……
A recent executive order is taking federal cybersecurity requirements a few step backwards. Is there anything positive about it? Dan Goodin reports: Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing software the government uses, punishing people who compromise sensitive networks, preparing new encryption…
