The December breach of the US Treasury by Chinese hackers apparently included theft of information from Secretary Janet Yellen’s computer, according to anonymous official sources speaking with Bloomberg News.
After nearly four years of heavy activity on US cyber defense, the Biden administration has wrapped up its term with one more sprawling cybersecurity executive order that beefs up federal agencies.
The longtime debate about whether or not ransomware payments should be made illegal has been revived in the UK. If the UK passes the strictest of the new Home Office proposals for the public sector, it would be the first major economy to extend bans on payments this far.
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant has issued a warning advising that a suspected Chinese threat actor is behind exploits of Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances that make use of zero-day CVE-2025-0282.
Add Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications and Windstream to the list of US telecom companies compromised by the Salt Typhoon hacking campaign.
Officials from the US Treasury Department have said that the Chinese state-sponsored hackers used a stolen API key, taken from a third-party security and technical support contractor.
North Korean hackers have set another record for themselves in 2024, topping all previous campaigns with $1.34 billion of stolen crypto.
Meta has prevailed in a long-running lawsuit centered on the NSO group’s use of WhatsApp to deliver its Pegasus spyware, and the judge is not only awarding damages but has found that both state and federal hacking laws were violated.
Russian hackers have been taking passwords from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) for at least the past four years, though the campaign has been rather slow; only about 600 stolen passwords of the roughly 250,000 users of the Defence Gateway portal.
Blue Yonder, which provides supply chain software to many household name brands, went offline for an extended period due to a late November ransomware attack. Extended lack of access to the supply chain software causing customers like Starbucks assorted problems.