Tag: government
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Massive Data Leak: ByteToBreach Offers Stolen Global Airline, Banking, and Government Records
A cybercriminal operating under the alias ByteToBreach has emerged as a prominent figure in the underground data trade, orchestrating a series of high-profile breaches targeting critical sectors worldwide. Active since at least June 2025, ByteToBreach has leveraged a blend of technical proficiency, aggressive self-promotion, and cross-platform operations to become one of the most publicized threat…
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ToddyCat APT evolves to target Outlook archives and Microsoft 365 tokens
Outlook in the Crosshairs: Another evolution involves accessing actual mail data. ToddyCat deployed a tool named TCSectorCopya C++ utility that opens the disk as a read-only device and copies Outlook’s offline storage files (OST) sector by sector, bypassing any file-lock mechanisms that Outlook may enforce.Once OST files are extracted, they are fed into XstReader, an…
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ToddyCat APT evolves to target Outlook archives and Microsoft 365 tokens
Outlook in the Crosshairs: Another evolution involves accessing actual mail data. ToddyCat deployed a tool named TCSectorCopya C++ utility that opens the disk as a read-only device and copies Outlook’s offline storage files (OST) sector by sector, bypassing any file-lock mechanisms that Outlook may enforce.Once OST files are extracted, they are fed into XstReader, an…
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Emergency alerts go dark after cyberattack on OnSolve CodeRED
Cyberattack on OnSolve CodeRED disrupted emergency alert services for U.S. state, local, police, and fire agencies. A cyberattack on the OnSolve CodeRED alert platform disrupted emergency notification services used by U.S. state and local governments, police, and fire agencies. OnSolve CodeRED is a cloud-based emergency alert system used by U.S. state and local governments to…
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Spyware Abuse of Signal and WhatsApp Targeting US Officials
Cyber Advisory Cites Abuse of Linked Devices to Monitor Sensitive Communications. The U.S cyber defense agency issued an alert outlining how commercial spyware and state-aligned groups are abusing messaging-app features through malicious QR-based linking and zero-click exploitation to monitor U.S. government, military and other high-profile figures. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/spyware-abuse-signal-whatsapp-targeting-us-officials-a-30133
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Spyware Abuse of Signal and WhatsApp Targeting US Officials
Cyber Advisory Cites Abuse of Linked Devices to Monitor Sensitive Communications. The U.S cyber defense agency issued an alert outlining how commercial spyware and state-aligned groups are abusing messaging-app features through malicious QR-based linking and zero-click exploitation to monitor U.S. government, military and other high-profile figures. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/spyware-abuse-signal-whatsapp-targeting-us-officials-a-30133
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Developers left large cache of credentials exposed on code generation websites
Tags: ai, api, authentication, banking, credentials, cyber, data, data-breach, email, endpoint, fortinet, government, healthcare, infrastructure, leak, mssp, service, vulnerability, waf, zero-day/service/getDataFromID API endpoint, watchTowr was able to extract the content behind each link from 80,000+ downloaded submissions, five years of historical JSON Formatter content, one year of historical Code Beautify content, 5GB+ of enriched data, annotated JSON data, plus thousands of secrets. These included:Active Directory credentialsCode repository authentication keysDatabase credentialsLDAP configuration informationCloud environment keysFTP credentialsCI/CD…
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Developers left large cache of credentials exposed on code generation websites
Tags: ai, api, authentication, banking, credentials, cyber, data, data-breach, email, endpoint, fortinet, government, healthcare, infrastructure, leak, mssp, service, vulnerability, waf, zero-day/service/getDataFromID API endpoint, watchTowr was able to extract the content behind each link from 80,000+ downloaded submissions, five years of historical JSON Formatter content, one year of historical Code Beautify content, 5GB+ of enriched data, annotated JSON data, plus thousands of secrets. These included:Active Directory credentialsCode repository authentication keysDatabase credentialsLDAP configuration informationCloud environment keysFTP credentialsCI/CD…
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OnSolve CodeRED cyberattack disrupts emergency alert systems nationwide
Risk management company Crisis24 has confirmed its OnSolve CodeRED platform suffered a cyberattack that disrupted emergency notification systems used by state and local governments, police departments, and fire agencies across the United States. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/onsolve-codered-cyberattack-disrupts-emergency-alert-systems-nationwide/
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Data Leaks: Why Are We So Stupid About Free Online Services?
JSON Code ‘Beautifiers’ Expose Sensitive Data From Banks, Government Agencies At what price beauty? Apparently, some developers will paste anything into JSON beautify sites, from researchers report recovering authentication keys, database credentials, personally identifiable information for banking customers and much more. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/data-leaks-are-we-so-stupid-about-free-online-services-p-3982
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Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys
New research has found that organizations in various sensitive sectors, including governments, telecoms, and critical infrastructure, are pasting passwords and credentials into online tools like JSONformatter and CodeBeautify that are used to format and validate code.Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs said it captured a dataset of over 80,000 files on these sites, uncovering thousands of First…
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Russia arrests young cybersecurity entrepreneur on treason charges
Details of the case are classified, but Russian media say Timur Kilin may have drawn official ire after publicly criticizing the state-owned messaging app Max and the government’s anti-cybercrime legislation. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-arrests-tech-entrepreneur-treason
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Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/code-beautifiers-expose-credentials-from-banks-govt-tech-orgs/
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Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level
Tags: access, apple, attack, crypto, cryptography, data, exploit, government, group, infrastructure, open-source, rust, vulnerabilityTrail of Bits has developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21, providing developers with compiler-level guarantees that their cryptographic implementations remain secure against branching-related timing attacks. This work introduces the __builtin_ct_select family of intrinsics and supporting infrastructure that prevents the Clang compiler, and potentially other compilers built with LLVM, from inadvertently breaking carefully crafted constant-time…
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Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level
Tags: access, apple, attack, crypto, cryptography, data, exploit, government, group, infrastructure, open-source, rust, vulnerabilityTrail of Bits has developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21, providing developers with compiler-level guarantees that their cryptographic implementations remain secure against branching-related timing attacks. This work introduces the __builtin_ct_select family of intrinsics and supporting infrastructure that prevents the Clang compiler, and potentially other compilers built with LLVM, from inadvertently breaking carefully crafted constant-time…
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Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide
Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that democracy will be the worse for it. We have another narrative. Yes, there are risks to democracy from AI, but there are also opportunities. We have just…
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Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide
Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that democracy will be the worse for it. We have another narrative. Yes, there are risks to democracy from AI, but there are also opportunities. We have just…
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Code-formatters expose thousands of secrets from banks, govt, tech orgs
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/code-formatters-expose-thousands-of-secrets-from-banks-govt-tech-orgs/
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Code-formatters expose thousands of secrets from banks, govt, tech orgs
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/code-formatters-expose-thousands-of-secrets-from-banks-govt-tech-orgs/
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Code-formatters expose thousands of secrets from banks, govt, tech orgs
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/code-formatters-expose-thousands-of-secrets-from-banks-govt-tech-orgs/
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Code-formatters expose thousands of secrets from banks, govt, tech orgs
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/code-formatters-expose-thousands-of-secrets-from-banks-govt-tech-orgs/
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China-Linked APT31 Launches Stealthy Cyberattacks on Russian IT Using Cloud Services
Tags: attack, china, cloud, cyber, cyberattack, government, group, russia, service, technology, threatThe China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as APT31 has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting the Russian information technology (IT) sector between 2024 and 2025 while staying undetected for extended periods of time.”In the period from 2024 to 2025, the Russian IT sector, especially companies working as contractors and integrators of solutions for…
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More on Rewiring Democracy
It’s been a month since Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship was published. From what we know, sales are good. Some of the book’s forty-three chapters are available online: chapters 2, 12, 28, 34, 38, and 41. We need more reviews”, six on Amazon is not enough, and no one…
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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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More on Rewiring Democracy
It’s been a month since Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship was published. From what we know, sales are good. Some of the book’s forty-three chapters are available online: chapters 2, 12, 28, 34, 38, and 41. We need more reviews”, six on Amazon is not enough, and no one…
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CISA warns Oracle Identity Manager RCE flaw is being actively exploited
Tags: attack, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, government, identity, infrastructure, oracle, rce, remote-code-execution, updateThe U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning government agencies to patch an Oracle Identity Manager tracked as CVE-2025-61757 that has been exploited in attacks, potentially as a zero-day. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-oracle-identity-manager-rce-flaw-is-being-actively-exploited/
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CISA warns Oracle Identity Manager RCE flaw is being actively exploited
Tags: attack, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, government, identity, infrastructure, oracle, rce, remote-code-execution, updateThe U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning government agencies to patch an Oracle Identity Manager tracked as CVE-2025-61757 that has been exploited in attacks, potentially as a zero-day. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-oracle-identity-manager-rce-flaw-is-being-actively-exploited/
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Global Agencies Target Criminal “Bulletproof” Hosts, as CSA Unveils Agentic AI Risk Framework
Tags: access, advisory, ai, android, apple, attack, banking, breach, browser, chrome, cisa, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, credit-card, crypto, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, endpoint, extortion, finance, firewall, firmware, flaw, framework, google, governance, government, group, guide, Hardware, ibm, identity, infection, infrastructure, international, Internet, law, linux, malicious, malware, microsoft, mobile, monitoring, network, open-source, oracle, password, phishing, radius, ransomware, rat, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, russia, scam, service, software, switch, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, windowsCyber agencies call on ISPs to help combat “bulletproof” internet hosts that shield cybercriminals. Meanwhile, the CSA introduced a new methodology to assess the risks of autonomous AI. Plus, get the latest on the CIS Benchmarks, drone-detection systems, and malware infections. Key takeaways Crackdown on “bulletproof” hosting: International cyber agencies are urging ISPs and network…