The FBI confirms Iran-linked Handala breached Kash Patel's personal email but says the data accessed was “historical in nature” and involves no government info
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — A hacking group backed by the Iranian government dubbed “Handala” …
A GitHub user published a newer version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box”
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered …
A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been leaked on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box”
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered …
A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars
* “at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components” illegally sold to “a Russian cyber-tools broker” (for ~$1.3m). Obviously at a huge discount, bc super illegal — But separately “[...
Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web that threatens to release ~1B records allegedly stolen from dozens of companies' Salesforce-hosted databases
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website …
A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February
Act Now To Prevent Attacks Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Apple Confirms iPhone Flaw Was Used to Spy on Journalists Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity : European Journalists Targeted by Paragon Spywar...
Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom
and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Could Cost Company $400 ...
The CFPB cancels its plans to more tightly regulate US data brokers' ability to sell Americans' sensitive info, like financial data, credit history, and SSNs
Predatory data brokers were just handed a win. — Disappointing: Americans' privacy should be a bipartisan concern. — By @dell.bsky.social @dmehro.bsky.social & @zackwhittaker.com — www.wired.com...
Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its “political retribution” investigation into ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs
“An independent infosec community is fundamental to protecting our democracy, and to the profession itself.” — www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/chris- k... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker.com : Electr...
Senator Ron Wyden plans to block Sean Plankey's nomination to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report detailing security flaws at US telecom companies
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