Jen Easterly from CISA confirmed on Wednesday that Salt Typhoon threat actors were detected on US government networks prior to telcos discovering the same activity in their organizations. She went on to say it is likely “just the tip of the iceberg” of Chinese state-sponsored intrusions into critical U.S infrastructure. She also took the opportunity … Read More “Salt Typhoon THREAT ACTORS SPOTTED ON US GOVT NETWORKS BEFORE TELCOS” »
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A data leak posted by IntelBroker on December 25th via BreachForums has been verified as authentic by Cisco. This follows an earlier leak this month of 2.9 GB of files. The files contain sensitive materials such as cryptographic signatures, internal project archives, and source code. Allegedly a misconfiguration in the DevHub platform inadvertently made the … Read More “Cisco CONFIRMS AUTHENTICITY OF 4.45 GB DATA BREACH” »
A threat actor has revealed they were able to steal the data of 50 million Dell customers including names, addresses and other data related to purchases made at Dell. The compromise was accomplished by setting up a number of partner accounts within the Dell company portal which, after they were approved, allowed them to brute … Read More “BREACH AT Dell LEADS TO DATA OF 50 MILLION CUSTOMERS” »
In a recent court case Marriott has revealed that it was actually securing data using SHA-1 and not the more secure AES-128 encryption algorithm. Marriott was arguing that the encryption they were using was so strong the case against them should have been dismissed, however they recently revealed they were actually using SHA-1 at the … Read More “MARRIOTT ADMITS IT FALSELY CLAIMED IT WAS USING ENCRYPTION” »