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12/13/2024
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By Ava Grace
Scammers using fake Telegram verification bots to steal cryptocurrency assets from unsuspecting victims
Scammers are combining social engineering with fake Telegram verification bots to inject crypto-stealing malware into users’ systems, leading to substantial losses. The scam involves creating counterfeit X accounts impersonating popular crypto influencers, luring followers to Telegram groups, and prompting them to verify their identities through a fake bot named “OfficiaISafeguardBot.” The fake bot injects a […]
10/23/2024
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By Cassie B.
China claims Volt Typhoon cybercrime group is a CIA asset invented to discredit it
The cybercrime organization Volt Typhoon has made some headlines for its attacks in recent years, and it is often reported that American authorities are pursuing them. However, China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) claims that Volt Typhoon was actually created by the U.S. and its NATO allies in an attempt to destroy its […]
08/21/2024
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By Laura Harris
Hackers steal over a million Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information from National Public Data
Background check service National Public Data (NPD) has confirmed that hackers breached its systems and leaked Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information of over a million people. Earlier in August, Christopher Hoffman filed a lawsuit against Jerico Pictures Inc., the company that operates the NPD service, on behalf of the others affected. In the lawsuit, Hoffman […]
08/19/2024
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By Laura Harris
Ransomware gang claims responsibility for recent hacking incident against conservative newspaper The Washington Times
A newly identified ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for hacking conservative media outlet The Washington Times and is now threatening to auction off the stolen data. The group, known as Rhysida, is notorious for its “ransomware as a service” operations, a process by which the group leases its malware to cybercriminals and receives a share of […]
08/06/2024
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By Olivia Cook
Ransomware attack on blood bank forces hundreds of hospitals in southeastern U.S. to activate blood shortage protocols
OneBlood, a prominent non-profit blood donation center in Florida that serves hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern United States, has been targeted by a ransomware attack. Despite the attack, the organization continues to collect, test and distribute blood but at a “significantly reduced capacity.” To address the disruptions, the blood bank adopted “manual processes and procedures […]
06/25/2024
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By Belle Carter
Software provider CDK Global HACKED, paralyzing over 15,000 car dealerships across America
Retail technology and software provider CDK Global has started to work on restoring its systems following a major cyberattack. But the process may take several days. “We are continuing to actively engage with our customers and provide them with alternate ways to conduct business,” CDK said in an emailed statement. The attacked system is a software-as-a-service […]
03/15/2024
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By Ava Grace
Experts warn U.S. is failing to respond quickly to China’s global cybercrime campaign
Experts believe that the United States is failing to respond swiftly to counter the threat of China’s communist regime’s worldwide campaign of cybercrime. This comes as a cache of leaked documents that surfaced in late February directly implicated the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in an extensive overseas campaign of cyber espionage. Retired U.S. Army Col. […]
12/15/2023
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By Laura Harris
Ukraine’s largest mobile network operator hit by massive cyberattack amid ongoing conflict with Russia
Kyivstar, the largest mobile network operator in Ukraine, has just been hit by the biggest cyberattack to affect the network since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in the country in late February 2022. The attack, which happened on Dec. 12, disrupted services, damaged information technology infrastructure and threatened the safety of the 24.8 million subscribers […]
11/03/2023
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By Olivia Cook
BAN THE SCAN: Civil rights groups call on the state of New York to outlaw facial recognition
Thirty-two civil rights groups, under the leadership of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), have called on the state of New York to outlaw government use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies in residential buildings and public accommodations or facilities. These groups have declared that facial recognition technology (FRT) is an “immediate threat” to New […]
09/13/2023
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By Arsenio Toledo
MGM Resorts hit by CYBERATTACK, computer systems in company’s Las Vegas properties shut down
Hotel and casino giant MGM Resorts on Monday, Sept. 11, confirmed that its Las Vegas properties had been hit by a cyberattack that caused the company’s computer systems to shut down. “MGM Resorts recently identified a cybersecurity issue affecting some of the company’s systems,” wrote MGM in a statement released on social media. “Promptly after detecting […]
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