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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
Some might say it was only a matter of time. HuffPost reports: Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing […]
Virginia AG’s office says it was struck by ‘sophisticated cyberattack’
The Washington Post reports: A “sophisticated cyberattack” struck the offices of Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares on Wednesday, forcing the agency to shut down computer systems and resort to paper court filings as Virginia State Police and the FBI investigate. “Unfortunately our agency has been the victim of what appears to be a sophisticated […]
Dutch police say they took down 127 servers used by sanctioned hosting service
The Record reports; Police in the Netherlands say they seized 127 servers this week that were used by Zservers, a bulletproof hosting service that was the subject of international sanctions issued Tuesday. The raid on Wednesday at the Paul van Vlissingenstraat data center in Amsterdam “followed a long-term digital investigation into the activities of a […]
PCSO chief says data breach claim is “fake news”
Inquirer.net reports: The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Friday dismissed claims that the agency’s database was breached by an alleged group of hackers, adding that information of lotto winners was not compromised. According to PCSO General Manager Mel Robles, the claim was made to taint the integrity of the agency’s games. “This is fake […]
‘The largest data breach in American history’: Attorney General Tong sues Musk, Trump over DOGE data overreach
WGTC reports: Attorney General William Tong has announced that Connecticut is joining several other states in filing a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s administration and the overreach of his Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency. Tong is one of 19 Democratic attorneys general who have sued Trump in an effort to block Musk from accessing the systems […]
Police arrest 4 Phobos ransomware suspects, seizes 8Base sites (1)
Bleeping Computer reports: A global law enforcement operation targeting the Phobos ransomware gang has led to the arrest of four suspected hackers in Phuket, Thailand, and the seizure of 8Base’s dark web sites. The suspects are accused of conducting cyberattacks on over 1,000 victims worldwide. The arrested individuals, two men and two women, are Europeans […]
Abandoned AWS Cloud Storage: A Major Cyberattack Vector
Everything old is exploitable again? DarkReading reports: Abandoned cloud storage buckets present a major, but largely overlooked, threat to Internet security, new research has shown. The risks arise when bad actors discover and re-register these neglected digital repositories under their original name, and then use them to deliver malware or carry out other malicious actions […]
Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’
Brian Krebs reports that a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team has a criminal past: Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to […]