Chinese hackers have reportedly broken into a key US Treasury office tasked with reviewing foreign investments and transactions that could threaten US national security. CNN reportsciting U.S. officials familiar with the incident, that Chinese hackers targeted the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, which can approve or reject deals that present […]
More than half a dozen VPN apps, including Cloudflare’s widely used 1.1.1.1, have been removed from India’s Apple App Store and Google Play Store following intervention by government authorities, britcommerce has learned. India’s Home Ministry issued takedown orders for the apps, according to a document reviewed by britcommerce and a disclosure made by Google to
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As regular britcommerce readers will know, 2024 was, like previous years, full of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and massive hacks that exploited some of the most trivial software vulnerabilities. Even the best-resourced organizations have failed to keep hackers out of their systems over the past twelve months. AT&T experienced its second massive breach of the
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Cariad, the Volkswagen Group’s troubled automotive software unit, left terabytes of customer data on around 800,000 Audi, Seat, Skoda and Volkswagen electric vehicles exposed to the Internet for months, according to reports. The mirror [in German]citing security researchers who learned of the data breach from an anonymous whistleblower. The researchers, who they gave their talk
State officials said hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents could be affected by a cyberattack on the state’s online social services portal, with a “high probability” that personally identifiable information was breached. According an update From Governor Dan McKee’s office, the attack targeted RIBridges, which Rhode Island residents use to apply for and access
UnitedHealthcare did not immediately respond to a request for comment from . In a statement provided to other media outlets, a company spokesperson said: “Our hope is that today’s apprehension brings some relief to Brian’s family, friends, colleagues and many others affected by this unspeakable tragedy. We thank the authorities and will continue to work
The Oreshnik missile launched on Tuesday apparently took off from Russia’s Kapustin Yar rocket base, about 800 kilometers from Dnipro, a long way from the intense fighting. This is the first time an IRBM has been used in combat. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, ratified by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1988,
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After evading capture for more than two years following a hacking spree that targeted some of the world’s largest technology companies, US authorities say they have finally caught at least some of the hackers responsible. In August 2022, Security researchers went public. with a warning that a group of hackers had targeted more than 130
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State-backed Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers have been active during the 2024 US campaign season, compromising digital accounts associated with political campaigns, spreading disinformation and investigating election systems. But in a report in early October, the threat sharing and coordination group known as Election Infrastructure ISAC warned that cybercriminals, such as ransomware attackers, pose a
The Chinese spy operation adds to the growing sense of a tumult of foreign digital interference in the election, which has already included Iranian hackers attempting to hack and leak Trump campaign emails (with limited success) and the disinformation efforts linked to Russia on social media. media. Ahead of next week’s full launch of Apple’s
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