Tag: at&t
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FCC reversal removes federal cyber safeguards targeting telecom weaknesses post-Salt Typhoon attacks
Tags: access, at&t, attack, breach, ceo, china, communications, control, country, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, exploit, government, group, hacker, intelligence, law, mobile, network, phone, router, threatSalt Typhoon still reverberating: Salt Typhoon impacted major carriers including AT&T, Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Windstream. But law enforcement and intelligence agencies caution that its impact is far more widespread, exposing at least 200 US organizations, plus entities in 80 other countries.According to federal investigations, the attack allowed the Chinese…
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Attackers steal data from Salesforce instances via compromised AI live chat tool
What Salesloft Drift users should do next: The GTIG report and the Salesloft advisories include indicators of compromise such as IP addresses used by the attackers and User-Agent strings for the tools they used to access the data. Mandiant advises companies to also search logs for any activity from known Tor exit nodes in addition…
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‘We too were breached,’ says Google, months after revealing Salesforce attacks
Attackers may have claimed a Google breach, too: GTIG had also disclosed extortion activities related to UNC6040 intrusions, sometimes carried out several months after the initial data theft, by another threat group, UNC6240, which identified themselves as the notorious BreachForums admin ‘ShinyHunters’.At the time, the GTIG team had presumed the claim to be a stunt…
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Erneuter Hackerangriff bei Orange
Nachdem bereits im Februar die rumänische Niederlassung gehackt wurde, geriet Orange nun erneut unter Beschuss.Der französische Telekommunikationsanbieter Orange hat am 25. Juli eine Sicherheitslücke in seinem Netzwerk entdeckt. Das kompromittierte System wurde von Orange Cyberdefense, der Cybersicherheitsabteilung des Unternehmens, aufgespürt und vom Rest des Netzwerks isoliert.Dies habe zu einigen Betriebsstörungen geführt, von denen vor allem…
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Senator to Google: Give us info from telco Salt Typhoon probes
AT&T and Verizon refused to hand over the security assessments, says Cantwell First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/senator_mandiant_salt_typhoon_demands/
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8 trends transforming the MDR market today
Tags: access, ai, at&t, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, edr, endpoint, framework, GDPR, google, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iot, least-privilege, monitoring, mssp, network, nis-2, ransomware, risk, service, siem, soc, sophos, strategy, technology, threat, tool, zero-trustDigital transformation complexifies the attack surface: As businesses modernize their IT environments, the complexity of securing hybrid and cloud-native infrastructures increases, making MDR an attractive option for scalable, expert-led protection, experts say.The shift to hybrid work, IoT adoption, and an increase in cloud migrations have dramatically expanded attack surfaces, while ransomware and AI-powered attacks constantly…
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AT&T rolls out protections to block SIM-swapping attacks
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/att-rolls-out-protections-to-block-sim-swapping-attacks
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AT&T rolls out “Wireless Lock” feature to block SIM swap attacks
AT&T has launched a new security feature called “Wireless Lock” that protects customers from SIM swapping attacks by preventing changes to their account information and the porting of phone numbers while the feature is enabled. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/atandt-rolls-out-wireless-lock-feature-to-block-sim-swap-attacks/
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Judge approves AT&T’s $177M data breach settlement
The settlement, which has received preliminary clearance, now awaits a December hearing for final approval. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/judge-att-177m-settlement-data-breach/751486/
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AT&T receives court OK for $177M breach settlement
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/att-receives-court-ok-for-177m-breach-settlement
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US Judge Okays $177 Million AT&T Data Breach Settlement
Preliminary Approval Granted to Settle Lawsuits Over Snowflake Breach, Dataset. A federal judge has granted preliminary approval for AT&T to settle multiple data breach lawsuits for $177 million. The lawsuits pertain to a customer dataset from 2021 that was circulating on cybercrime forums, and to the 2024 breach of AT&T’s Snowflake account. First seen on…
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AT&T not sure if new customer data dump is déjà vu
Re-selling info from an earlier breach? Probably. But which one? First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/att_investigates_data_dump/
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Millions of pilfered AT&T records exposed
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/millions-of-pilfered-att-records-exposed
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AT&T Hit by Massive Reported Identity Data Leak – Again
Leaked Records Include Names, Decrypted Social Security Numbers and Addresses. Hackers have seemingly re-released a refined trove of 86 million AT&T records, including decrypted Social Security numbers and full identity data, heightening the risk of fraud and impersonation for tens of millions of users as researchers cite structural improvements in the dataset. First seen on…
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Old AT&T data leak repackaged to link SSNs, DOBs to 49M phone numbers
A threat actor has re-released data from a 2021 AT&T breach affecting 70 million customers, this time combining previously separate files to directly link Social Security numbers and birth dates to individual users. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/old-atandt-data-leak-repackaged-to-link-ssns-dobs-to-49m-phone-numbers/
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Alleged AT&T breach compromises 31M records
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/alleged-att-breach-compromises-31m-records
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AT&T to Acquire Lumen Fiber Assets in $5.75B Deal to Broaden U.S. Coverage
Tags: at&tFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/att-to-acquire-lumen-fiber-assets-in-5-75b-deal-to-broaden-u-s-coverage
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AT&T and Palo Alto Networks Launch Joint SASE Solution to Secure Business Connectivity
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/att-and-palo-alto-networks-launch-joint-sase-solution-to-secure-business-connectivity
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RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up
AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79 First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/03/15/rip_mark_klein/
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Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/army_soldier_accused_of_att/
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Feds: Army soldier accused of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/army_soldier_accused_of_att/
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Foreign Hackers Are Using Google’s Gemini in Attacks on the US
Plus: WhatsApp discloses nearly 100 targets of spyware, hackers used the AT&T breach to hunt for details on US politicians, and more. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/hackers-google-gemini-us-cyberattacks/
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Feds worry AT&T breach could out informants
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/feds-worry-att-breach-could-out-informants
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AT&T, Verizon say they evicted Salt Typhoon from their networks
Two of the largest telecom providers in the U.S. said the China-government sponsored threat group is no longer embedded in their networks. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/att-verizon-salt-typhoon/736680/
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More telecom firms were breached by Chinese hackers than previously reported
Tags: access, at&t, attack, breach, china, cisco, communications, cyber, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, data, defense, disinformation, espionage, exploit, finance, fortinet, framework, government, group, hacker, Hardware, infrastructure, intelligence, international, microsoft, mobile, network, phone, regulation, risk, risk-management, router, spy, technology, threat, vulnerabilityChinese hackers linked to the Salt Typhoon cyberespionage operation have breached even more US telecommunications firms than initially reported.New victims, Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream, add to a growing list that already includes AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Lumen Technologies.Earlier, the US authorities informed that nine telecom firms have been affected by the Chinese espionage…
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US Soldier Arrested in Verizon, AT&T Hacks
Wagenius posted about hacking more than 15 telecom providers on the Telegram messaging service. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/us-soldier-arrested-in-verizon-at-t-hack
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US soldier linked to Trump call log hack arrested in Texas
Court documents unsealed Monday show that US authorities have arrested a 20-year-old soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, charged with two counts of selling or attempting to sell confidential phone records without the customer’s authorization.But behind the scant details provided in the charge sheet submitted to the US District Court for the Western District of Washington at…
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US Army soldier who allegedly stole Trump’s AT&T call logs arrested
Tags: at&tBrings the arrest count related to the Snowflake hacks to 3 First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/01/01/us_army_soldier_att_call_logs/
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Arrest of US Army Soldier Tied to AT&T and Verizon Extortion
Cameron Wagenius Suspected of Extorting Snowflake Customers Over Stolen Data. A serving member of the U.S. Army has been arrested on a two-count indictment tied to the theft and sale of confidential phone records, reportedly tied to the theft of terabytes of data from AT&T, Verizon and other customers of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake.…