Mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence CVE-2021-26084 is ongoing and expected to accelerate. Please patch immediately if you haven't already— this cannot wait until after the weekend
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have alerted consumers and business owners of an increase in deleterious ransomware attacks occurring on holidays and weekends
Russia has made a decision to block six more VPN services, Roskomnadzor told Izvestia. We are talking about Hola VPN, ExpressVPN, KeepSolid VPN Unlimited, NordVPN, Speedify VPN, IPVanish VPN.
WhatsApp has been fined €225m for breaking the EU's data privacy law by not telling its users how their data was being shared with its parent company Facebook
Moscow authorities for 130 million rubles modernize the facial recognition system used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Russian independent news outlet The Bell reports it has been hacked - the letter sent from their address this morning was not really sent by them
U.S. SEC charges BitConnect founder with $2 billion cryptocurrency fraud
Internet access in South Sudan disrupted ahead of planned protests
In Ukraine, President @ZelenskyyUa signed a decree on establishing cyber forces under the Ministry of Defence @DefenceU command
Twitter and Facebook fined 32 million rubles for repeated refusal to localize data in Russia - Roskomnadzor
NPR's months-long examination of the hack into Microsoft Exchange found that stealing emails and intellectual property may only have been the beginning. Officials believe that the breach was in the service of China's artificial intelligence ambitions
"They know who they are and where they are," says @POTUS of Putin/Russia government on hackers targeting US
1 month agoAbout a half million cybersecurity jobs in the US "remain unfilled," according to @POTUS
Citizen Lab researchers found Bahrain used NSO Group spyware to target nine human rights activists. Of them, seven live in the country, two are in exile in the UK. Five of them were on 50,000 numbers list obtained by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty
Russia's federal censor has ordered @Apple to delete @Navalny's mobile app
1 month agoVolexity has identified a North Korean APT known as InkySquid exploiting users using recent exploits for IE and Edge via Strategic Web Compromises
The Chinese government secretly took a 1% stake in TikTok owner ByteDance enabling it to nab 1 of 3 board seats. State investors controlled by the country's Chief Censor & its Propaganda Department now have veto rights over the company's decisions
Power out in much of Moorhead
1 month agoNetwork data show interruptions to internet connectivity in Afghanistan amid power outages and a partial collapse of infrastructure as Taliban take control of major cities including Kabul
1 month agoAccording to data collected by @Steeler84267, ransomware attacks against schools in 2021 already equal the number in 2020 Note: attacks on school districts are considered a single attack, total schools impacted is closer to 900
An alleged hacker has announced on RaidForums, a database sharing platform also used by cyber criminals, he would be selling over 1.6 million emails and various documents stolen from the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry.
1 month agoHackers have returned $258 million of stolen digital coins to crypto platform Polynetwork - blockchain
Fazze case — a campaign from Russia targeting primarily India and LATAM, and to a lesser extent the US. It was focused on the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccines, but got close to zero traction across the internet
China's crackdown on illegal surveillance led by departments including the cyberspace watchdog and police has seen dozens arrested and more than 25,000 illegal webcams seized
Coordinated cyberattack, which most likely originated in China, targeted government and private organizations in Israel, according to @FireEye
1 month ago"Belarusian Cyber-partisans" last month hacked the servers of Belarusian police and the Interior Ministry. They’ve downloaded the entire “АИС Паспорт” database which contains all personal details of every Belarusian citizen including passport photos, home address, place of work (including those with restricted access who work in KGB and other special services)
China: China's cyberspace regulator held talks with 14 video surveillance producers about potential private video leakage risks, urging them to make corrections
1 month agoConfirmed: Nation-scale power outage registered in Zambia impacting telecommunications networks from ~2:30 pm local time; real-time network data show national connectivity at 70% of ordinary levels; incident ongoing
BrianBrooks: Letting you all know that I have resigned as CEO of @BinanceUS . Despite differences over strategic direction, I wish my former colleagues much success. Exciting new things to come
New accusations by the United States against Russia in cyberattacks are far-fetched, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
