Tag: government entities
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The Register: Penn State pays DoJ $1.25M to settle cybersecurity compliance case
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/penn_state_university_doj_settlement/ Source: The Register Title: Penn State pays DoJ $1.25M to settle cybersecurity compliance case Feedly Summary: Fight On, State? Not this time Pennsylvania State University has agreed to pay the Justice Department $1.25 million to settle claims of misrepresenting its cybersecurity compliance to the federal government and leaving sensitive data improperly secured. ……
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Cisco Talos Blog: UAT-5647 targets Ukrainian and Polish entities with RomCom malware variants
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-5647-romcom/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: UAT-5647 targets Ukrainian and Polish entities with RomCom malware variants Feedly Summary: By Dmytro Korzhevin, Asheer Malhotra, Vanja Svajcer and Vitor Ventura. Cisco Talos has observed a new wave of attacks active since at least late 2023, from a Russian speaking group we track as “UAT-5647”, against Ukrainian…
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The Register: Anonymous Sudan isn’t any more: two alleged operators named, charged
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/anonymous_sudan_arrests_charges/ Source: The Register Title: Anonymous Sudan isn’t any more: two alleged operators named, charged Feedly Summary: Gang said to have developed its evilware on GitHub – then DDoSed GitHub Hacktivist gang Anonymous Sudan appears to have lost its anonymity after the US Attorney’s Office on Wednesday unsealed an indictment identifying two of…
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The Register: Volkswagen monitoring data dump threat from 8Base ransomware crew
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/volkswagen_ransomware_data_loss/ Source: The Register Title: Volkswagen monitoring data dump threat from 8Base ransomware crew Feedly Summary: The German car giant appears to be unconcerned The 8Base ransomware crew claims to have stolen a huge data dump of Volkswagen files and is threatening to publish them, but the German car giant appears to be…
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Wired: Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/anonymous-sudan-ddos-indictment-takedown/ Source: Wired Title: Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals Feedly Summary: The US has accused two brothers of being part of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan, which allegedly went on a wild cyberattack spree that hit thousands of targets—and, for one of the two men, even put lives…
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Hacker News: Avoiding a Geopolitical open-source Apocalypse
Source URL: https://thenewstack.io/avoiding-a-geopolitical-open-source-apocalypse/ Source: Hacker News Title: Avoiding a Geopolitical open-source Apocalypse Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the growing divide in open source development, particularly between Chinese and Western developers, and explores the implications for security and trust in open source software. It addresses concerns about the geopolitical…
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The Register: INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/11/inc_ransomware_lynx/ Source: The Register Title: INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good Feedly Summary: Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 believe the INC ransomware crew is no more and recently rebranded itself as Lynx over…