09.11.25 Security News Bites 45 New Domains Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Salt Typhoon is the group that hacked all the big telephone companies including the FBI’s wiretap portal. Recently the FBI says that the group hacked over 200 US companies. Now researchers have identified more domains being used by Salt Typhoon and another Chinese […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The program’s director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) told Congress today that government funding for a program that hunts for threats on America’s critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, shutting down all work on the program. CyberSentry is a public-private partnership, managed by CISA, that looks for malicious activity on IT and operational technology […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is Russia Reining-In Ransomware? Historically, if you are a ransomware hacker you are in heaven in Russia as long as you don’t attack targets favored by the Kremlin. Putin has arrested, unexpectedly, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a famous Russian hacker who was indicted in the U.S. He paid a fine and had to give Putin a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Multiple Chinese hacking groups continue to go after US and other companies and agencies with, apparently, no consequences. China’s Salt Typhoon, who hacked a dozen or more major US telecom and Internet providers including Verizon and AT&T, is now using vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls worldwide. In December and January the Chinese government hackers successfully broke […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Arrest US Solider in AT&T, Verizon+ Hacks This is NOT the Salt Typhoon hack, but rather the Snowflake hack, as best I can tell. The details are very sparse, but in some cases, the targets are the same. Cameron John Wagenius was arrested in Fort Hood, TX. after he was indicted recently. He, apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Sue JPMorgan, Wells, BofA Over Zelle Fraud Given the administration is changing next month and the new administration is not fond of rules that negatively impact business, I don’t know if this lawsuit will go anywhere, but the complaint said it took Zelle years to respond at all to Zelle fraud and in most […]
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