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Ex-NSA Employee Sentenced to 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia
/in General NewsA former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been sentenced to nearly 22 years (262 months) in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia.
“This sentence should serve as a stark warning to all those entrusted with protecting national defense information that there are consequences to betraying that trust,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
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Belarus Secret Service Website Still Down After Hackers Claim the Breach
/in General NewsThe hackers, known as the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans, announced their operation against the KGB late last week. The agency has not commented on the attack, but on Monday its website says that it is “in the process of development.”
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Verizon DBIR: Basic Security Gaffes Underpin Bumper Crop of Breaches
/in General NewsMOVEit drove a big chunk of the increase, but human vulnerability to social engineering and failure to patch known bugs led to a doubling of breaches since 2023, said Verizon Business.
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UnitedHealth CEO Says Hackers Lurked in Network for Nine Days Before Ransomware Strike
/in General NewsUnitedHealth Group’s CEO Andrew Witty shares details on the damaging cyberattack in testimony before a US Congress committee set for May 1, 2024.
The post UnitedHealth CEO Says Hackers Lurked in Network for Nine Days Before Ransomware Strike appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Canadian Drug Chain in Temporary Lockdown Mode After Cyber Incident
/in General NewsLondon Drugs offered no details about the nature of the incident, nor when its pharmacies would be functioning normally again.
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Attackers Planted Millions of Imageless Repositories on Docker Hub
/in General NewsThe purported metadata for each these containers had embedded links to malicious files.
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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
/in General NewsChina’s brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.
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Finnish Hacker Gets Prison for Accessing Thousands of Psychotherapy Records and Demanding Ransoms
/in General NewsIn February 2023, French police arrested well-known Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki, who was living under a false identity near Paris. He was deported to Finland. His trial ended last month.
The post Finnish Hacker Gets Prison for Accessing Thousands of Psychotherapy Records and Demanding Ransoms appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Docker Hub Users Targeted With Imageless, Malicious Repositories
/in General NewsJFrog raises an alarm after finding three large-scale malware campaigns targeting Docker Hub with imageless repositories.
The post Docker Hub Users Targeted With Imageless, Malicious Repositories appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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To Damage OT Systems, Hackers Tap USBs, Old Bugs & Malware
/in General NewsUSBs have something the newest, hottest attack techniques lack: the ability to bridge air gaps.
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