TechCrunch reports: Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has put a hold on the Trump administration’s nomination of Sean Plankey to head the federal government’s top cybersecurity agency, citing a “multi-year cover up” of security flaws at U.S. telecommunication companies. Wyden said in remarks, seen by TechCrunch and confirmed by the senator’s spokesperson, that he will block the nomination […]
Only days after news sites reported that RansomHub was collaborating with EvilCorp in developing its attacks, RansomHub appeared to have been the victim of a takeover by another group. Or perhaps it was just a merger? DragonForce recently posted an announcement on the RAMP cybercrime forum claiming that it had become partners with RansomHub. A […]
Newsweek reports: A group of hackers that previously targeted President Donald Trump has pledged to take aim at Elon Musk for the next month. DonRoad Team, which previously claimed responsibility for taking down several Trump-associated websites, announced Monday it would begin hitting sites linked to Elon Musk. Newsweek contacted Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twittter) and the Department of Government Efficiency […]
The story of EncryptHub, who conquered 600 companies, but failed in conversations with ChatGPT. Swedish computer security experts have uncovered an unusual story of a hacker who balances between a legitimate career and cybercrime. Last month, he received an official commendation from Microsoft for discovering two serious vulnerabilities in Windows, but as experts at Outpost24 KrakenLabs […]
The Sun reports: KIM Jong-un is recruiting primary school children and grooming them to become the world’s best hackers, an intelligence analyst has warned. The child prodigies are recruited from the age of five and channelled into specialist schools where they learn how to target the West with devastating hacks. North Korea analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, Michael Barnhart, told the Sun […]
The Record reports: Another vulnerability impacting firewall products from Ivanti is being exploited by alleged China-based hackers. An Ivanti advisory released on Thursday confirmed that a “limited number of customers” have been attacked through a bug impacting its Connect Secure, Policy Secure & ZTA Gateways tools — which are used by large organizations and government clients to […]
Reuters reports: A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is working in the US justice department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters. Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer who has worked at Musk’s social media company X and space launch company SpaceX, is […]
The Record reports: For nearly six years, Gen. Paul Nakasone led two of the most powerful — and secretive — arms of American national security: the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. One listens. The other talks back. Under the first Trump administration, Cyber Command got something it never had before: the green light not just to defend, […]
The Record reports that in a policy statement published Tuesday, the British government set out what its forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will include when it is introduced to parliament later this year: The belated reworking of the country’s cybersecurity regulations comes three years after the previous government had prematurely described those laws as “updated” while […]
They publicly denied, denied, denied having a breach of Oracle Cloud after someone put data up for sale, but while Oracle was publicly denying any breach, their customers and researchers were confirming that there had been one. Now we learn that Oracle Health had been telling some hospitals and healthcare clients that there had been […]
