Intelligence cyberattack on Crimea. Documents confirming abduction of children from Ukraine found

It seems like only yesterday that LockBit 5.0 announced, with its usual hubris,  a “new secure blog domain, with a multi-layered protection system against all-powerful FBI agents.”   And it seems like only yesterday that Rakesh Krishnan  revealed LockBit 5’s IP address and domain. In a post on X.com on December 5, @RakeshKrish12 wrote: Exposing……

Bill Toulas reports: Google has observed hackers claiming to be the ShinyHunters extortion group conducting social engineering attacks against multi-national companies to steal data from organizations’ Salesforce platforms. According to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), which tracks the threat cluster as ‘UNC6040,’  the attacks target English-speaking employees with voice phishing attacks to trick them into…

Julian E. Barnes and Anatoly Kurmanaev report: The cyberattack that plunged Venezuela’s capital into darkness this month demonstrated the Pentagon’s ability not just to turn off the lights, but also to allow them to be turned back on, according to U.S. officials briefed on the operation. The Jan. 3 operation was one of the most……

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Jake Kanter reports:  The cyber-attack on Prospect, the parent union of film and TV group Bectu, has sparked fears that it could have compromised information pertaining to the UK’s national security. Deadline revealed earlier this month that the majority of Prospect’s 150,000 members had their data breached during an “IT security incident” in June. Our original……

For many years, the FTC has published guidance for businesses to Start with Security. Their advice has always included having a clear way to receive security alerts about vulnerabilities. That advice has been repeated in all updates, including their 2023 version. Why do I mention that now? Because once again, attempts to warn a company…