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US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to target NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
US Justice Department seized domains of a Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, the Justice Department, and the Senate, disabling its C2.
The US Justice Department seized domains belonging to a Chinese botnet that was used to hack NASA, the Justice Department, and the Senate. The seized domains were hardcoded into the botnet's code, so the seizures rendered the botnet and its command-and-control servers inoperable. The action disrupted the malware's communication channels and essential operations.
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ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims
The ATF is responding to a major cybersecurity incident claimed by a ransomware gang, with the US Justice Department investigating the breach.
The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) acknowledged a 'major' cybersecurity incident after a ransomware gang claimed responsibility for an attack. The US Justice Department is investigating the breach. Available reporting provides limited technical detail, and the scope of data theft and operational impact remains unclear.
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Week in review: New Black Basta's social engineering campaign, passing the CISSP exam in 6 weeks
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Risky Bulletin: Russia tells data centers to deploy drone defenses
Russia ordered data center operators to deploy drone strike defenses under a Putin decree allowing temporary state takeover of unprotected critical infrastructure.
The Russian government instructed data center operators to deploy protections against drone strikes under a presidential decree signed by Putin that allows temporary state administration of critical infrastructure operators failing to defend against Ukrainian hacks and drone strikes. Although data centers are not formally critical infrastructure in Russia, the decree applies to them because other sectors depend heavily on cloud services; Russia has more than 180 data centers, over 80% in the European region within range of Ukrainian strikes. The digest also reports a Dropbox breach affecting nearly 5,000 accounts via the Lenovo ID integration, spyware attacks on at least 14 Serbians using NoviSpy or Pegasus, and a password recovery attack targeting hundreds of thousands of X accounts tied to the new X Money service. Other items include a 14-hour compromise of Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure delivering malicious Terraform modules, donor data breaches at Davayte and You Are Not Alone via the Stripe/WooCommerce integration, a $2.5M Aquifer crypto heist, and a TVING breach exposing data of almost 40 million accounts.
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