Critical Infrastructure, Cyberattack, Data Breach News, News
October 30, 2025
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US company with access to biggest telecom firms uncovers breach by nation-state hackers

Reuters reports: Hackers working for an unnamed nation-state breached networks at Ribbon Communications, a key U.S. telecommunications services company, and remained within the firm’s systems for nearly a year without being detected, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. Ribbon Communications, a Texas-based company that provides technology to facilitate voice and data communications […]

Critical Infrastructure, Cyberattack
October 30, 2025
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Canada says hacktivists breached water and energy facilities

Bleeping Computer reports: The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warned today that hacktivists have breached critical infrastructure systems multiple times across the country, allowing them to modify industrial controls that could have led to dangerous conditions. The authorities issued the warning to raise awareness of the elevated malicious activity targeting internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS) […]

Cyberattack, Data Breach News
October 29, 2025
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Iran’s school for cyberspies could’ve used a few more lessons in preventing breaches

The Register reports: Iran’s school for state-sponsored cyberattackers admits it suffered a breach exposing the names and other personal information of its associates and students. The Ravin Academy was established in 2019, ostensibly to train individuals in all facets of cybersecurity and recruit the best to work on Iranian intelligence (MOIS) projects. As part of […]

Commentaries and Analyses, Cyberattack, Data Breach News, Legal News, News
October 20, 2025
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John Bolton Indictment Provides Interesting Details About Hack of His AOL Account and Extortion Attempt

Kim Zetter writes: The investigation into former national security advisor John Bolton’s handling of classified material stemmed in part from an admission Bolton made to the FBI in July 2021 that hackers – believed to be from Iran – had breached his private AOL email account and tried to extort him over classified information contained […]

Cyberattack, News
October 17, 2025
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Hackers Blast Pro-Hamas, Anti-Trump Messages Through Four Airport PA Systems

The Daily Beast reports: Four airports across the U.S. and Canada were hacked to display a series of pro-Hamas and anti-Trump messages, causing flights to be delayed. Videos posted by passengers at Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania showed loudspeakers blasting pro-Palestinian messages in Arabic while flight information screens broadcast messages reading “Israel lost the war, […]

Cyberattack, News
October 13, 2025
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DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS

KrebsOnSecurity.com reports: The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy concentration of infected devices at U.S. providers is complicating efforts to limit collateral damage from the botnet’s attacks, which shattered […]

Cyberattack, News
October 06, 2025
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Red Hat Confirms GitLab Instance Hack, Data Theft

Security Week reports: Red Hat on Thursday confirmed that one of its GitLab instances was hacked after a threat actor claimed to have stolen sensitive data belonging to the company and its customers.  It was initially reported that the hackers had targeted a GitHub instance, but the enterprise software giant clarified that it was actually […]

Malware Ransomware, Cyberattack, News
September 25, 2025
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Google: Brickstorm malware used to steal U.S. orgs’ data for over a year

Bleeping Computer reports: Suspected Chinese hackers have used the Brickstorm malware in long-term persistence espionage operations against U.S. organizations in the technology and legal sectors. Brickstorm is a Go-based backdoor documented by Google in April 2024 following China-related intrusions that spawned from various edge devices and remained undetected in the victim environment for more than a year, […]

Data Breach News, Cyberattack, Malware Ransomware, News
September 22, 2025
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European airports struggle to fix check-in glitch after cyberattack

We wouldn’t call this a “glitch.” It appears to have been a ransomware attack on Collins Aerospace, although there has been no announcement as to who is responsible for the attack and whether any ransom demand has been received. Reuters reports: Some of Europe’s biggest airports battled to restore normal operations on Sunday after hackers […]

Cyberattack, Critical Infrastructure, Data Breach News
July 31, 2025
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Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack

When a cyberattack reportedly overwhelmed the city’s cyberdefenses and resources, Governor Waltz called in the National Guard, whose cyber experts will assist the city with recovering from the attack. The Register reports: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state’s National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the […]