U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that Russian government-backed hackers stole emails from several U.S. federal agencies as a result of an ongoing cyberattack at Microsoft. In a statement published Thursday, the U.S. cyber agency said the cyberattack, which Microsoft initially disclosed in January, allowed the hackers to steal federal government emails […]
NewJeans Seeks Aid From US Federal Court To Reveal A YouTuber’s Identity
The fourth-generation powerhouse girl group NewJeans has reportedly asked a California federal court to help them find the identity of a YouTuber. NewJeans | @newjeans_official/Instagram On April 10, the New York Times reported that the group’s agency, ADOR, has approached the court to order Google to reveal the identity of the person behind a YouTube account called @Middle7. In […]
A government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security
A U.S. government watchdog stole more than one gigabyte of seemingly sensitive personal data from the cloud systems of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The good news: The data was fake and part of a series of tests to check whether the Department’s cloud infrastructure was secure. The experiment is detailed in a new […]
US gives federal agencies 48 hours to disconnect flawed Ivanti VPN tech
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has ordered federal agencies to urgently disconnect Ivanti VPN appliances given the risk of malicious exploitation due to multiple software flaws. In an update to an emergency directive first published last week, CISA is now mandating that all federal civilian executive branch agencies — a list that includes the Homeland Security […]
US Federal Trade Commission Warns Consumers About Falling for Crypto ATM Scam
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned consumers about scams involving cryptocurrency ATMs. “There’s a new spin on scammers asking people to pay with cryptocurrency,” the FTC described. FTC’s Warning About Scams Involving Cryptocurrency ATMs The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a scam alert involving cryptocurrency ATMs Monday. The consumer notice, posted by […]