The US FCC aims to introduce a ban on companies that use certain Chinese tech and equipment from building submarine communication cables that connect to the US
proposed new rules would ‘secure cables against foreign adversaries’ Michael Kan / PCMag : FCC Moves To Ban Chinese Tech From Undersea Fiber Cables Joe Warminsky / The Record : FCC wants to ban Chines...
An Alabama man is sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking SEC's X account in 2024 and posting a false announcement that the SEC had approved bitcoin ETFs
And Exposed Cybersecurity Flaws Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt : Man Who Hacked SEC's X Account to Pump Bitcoin Gets 14 Months in Prison Owotunse Adebayo / Cryptopolitan : Hacker of the US SEC X account se...
UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks
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Poland arrests five people as Europol and the DOJ take down the Lolek “bulletproof” host for allegedly facilitating Netwalker ransomware and other attacks
Europol The Hacker News : Lolek Bulletproof Hosting Servers Seized, 5 Key Operators Arrested Habiba Rashid / HackRead : Feds Seize Bulletproof Hosting Service “Lolek Hosted” Jurgita Lapienytė / Cybern...
The US announces charges, sanctions, and a $10M reward for info leading to the arrest of Russian national Mikhail Matveev, a Babuk ransomware campaign suspect
SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS LIST UPDATE Sarai Rodriguez / HealthITSecurity : US Formally Charges Russian Hacker Behind Global Ransomware Attacks CircleID : U.S. Targets Russian Mastermind Behind Do...
Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Exynos modems, affecting some Samsung, Vivo, and Google phones as well as wearables and vehicles
do this before you're next Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Google discovers 18 vulnerabilities in multiple Samsung chips Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Baseband RCE flaws in Samsung's Exynos...