Tag: office
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200 accounts compromised in Swiss government’s Microsoft SharePoint breach
Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint servers belonging to Switzerland’s Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (BIT), … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/07/swiss-government-microsoft-sharepoint-vulnerabilities/
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China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries, including the US
Researchers linked the latest malicious activity to a Chinese company, after one of the spyware’s operators placed an order with KFC using their real name and office address. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/china-linked-lightspy-spyware-caught-targeting-victims-in-13-countries-including-the-us/
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Swiss government SharePoint breach compromised 200 accounts
Switzerland’s federal IT office says hackers exploited vulnerabilities to breach its Microsoft SharePoint servers and compromised approximately 200 accounts. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/swiss-government-sharepoint-breach-compromised-200-accounts/
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From Inspection to Authorization: Securing Networks for AI Agents
Tags: access, ai, api, business, ceo, cloud, communications, control, crowdstrike, cryptography, data, encryption, endpoint, finance, firewall, identity, infrastructure, login, network, office, risk, saas, service, usa, vpn<div cla An Industry Perspective By Rajiv Pimplaskar, CEO, Dispersive Holdings, Inc. Agentic AI changes the network security problem from inspection to authorization. As more traffic is generated by agents, models, and workloads operating at machine speed, the network has to make trust decisions continuously, evaluate policy in real time, revoke access automatically, and keep…
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SharePoint Flaws Used to Hack Switzerland’s Federal IT Agency
Swiss Federal IT Agency FOITT says attackers exploited SharePoint flaws to compromise about 200 accounts. Servers are being rebuilt as investigations continue. Switzerland’s Federal Office for Information Technology and Communications, known as BIT or FOITT, disclosed that unknown attackers had compromised approximately 200 accounts on its on-premises SharePoint servers. The FOITT said the unknown attackers…
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Swiss IT agency hacked, 200 accounts compromised, SharePoint vulns suspected
The Federal Office for Information Technology and Communications (BIT) said specialists detected anomalies in on-premises Microsoft servers. The Swiss agency could not confirm exactly how the hackers got in. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/swiss-bit-foitt-hacked-possibly-sharepoint-vulnerabilities
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EU begins enforcing AI Act, putting AI models under the microscope
Europe’s fight to regulate AI models moved from paper to practice on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/04/eu-ai-act-enforcement-ai-models/
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Apple files fresh claim against Home Office move to access encrypted cloud data
Apple files fresh legal complaint over secret Home Office order to require it to provide access to encrypted iCloud data stored by UK customers First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366647012/Apple-files-fresh-claim-against-Home-Office-move-to-access-encrypted-cloud-data
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PNLD Confirms Data Breach Affecting UK Police and Justice Staff
UK police legal database breach exposed officers’ names and work emails, increasing phishing risks. NCA is investigating. The Police National Legal Database (PNLD), the legal reference system used by all 43 Home Office police forces in England and Wales, confirmed that a data breach exposed the contact details of police officers, staff, and criminal justice…
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UK’s state investments agency hit by data breach
Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hoursThe public body in charge of the UK’s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left “high-level management information” publicly accessible for nearly two days.UK Government Investments (UKGI), the agency that manages the…
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Suspected Chinese-Speaking Hackers Target Central Asian Governments With OctLurk and SilkLurk
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, since January”¯2025.These targeted organizations operate across several sectors, such as healthcare, research, government offices, First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article:…
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Cyber Command plans Silicon Valley office to drive innovation
The outpost will have its own director, though no one has yet been named for the post, and support the command’s nascent Cyber Warfare Innovation Center (CIWC). First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cyber-command-plans-silicon-valley-office-to-drive-innovation
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DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
Tags: officeThe outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/dhs-official-resigns-citing-war-on-immigrants/
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Malware Attack Forces AnMed to Close Care Facilities
Nonprofit Health System in SC and Georgia Says Email, Phones and Portal Are Down. AnMed, a nonprofit healthcare system that serves upstate South Carolina and Northeast Georgia, has temporarily closed dozens of its medical offices and other care facilities as the organization responds to a weekend ransomware attack. Email, phones and patient portals are among…
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Health system in South Carolina, Georgia closes offices after malware affects networks
On Sunday, AnMed published a statement online saying they were “experiencing a cybersecurity disruption involving malware” and were working to restore systems and determine the scope of the incident. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/health-system-south-carolina-georgia-disruptions-malware
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Microsoft Adds Prompt Injection Protection to Defender for Office 365
Microsoft has introduced prompt injection protection in Defender for Office 365, representing a significant advancement in securing enterprise email environments against emerging AI-targeted threats. As organizations increasingly adopt AI assistants like Microsoft 365 Copilot to summarize, triage, and respond to emails, attackers are shifting their tactics from traditional phishing methods to manipulating AI systems directly.…
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Most federal cybersecurity reporting rules are duplicative, study finds
The Government Accountability Office looked at 117 rules across 37 agencies and found 70% had reporting requirements that were overlapping. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/gao-report-duplicate-cybersecurity-regulations-harmonization/
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Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA
German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as one of the world’s most widely used criminal phishing kits, and Indonesian authorities arrested the man they say developed and ran it.In a joint announcement on Monday, the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s cybercrime unit (ZIT) and Germany’s Federal…
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Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing-as-a-Service Platform and Take Down Over 200 Servers
Tags: credentials, crime, cyber, cybercrime, germany, infrastructure, Internet, office, phishing, serviceAuthorities from Germany, the United States, and Indonesia have dismantled the central infrastructure of Kratos, a major phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform that enabled cybercriminals worldwide to conduct large-scale credential-harvesting campaigns. The operation, announced by Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor’s Office’s Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT), resulted…
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Director of Commerce AI standards office out after three months
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation has quietly become a key hub for the federal government to assess potential threats and harms that AI systems pose. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/director-of-commerce-ai-standards-office-out-after-three-months/
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San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-apple-and-google-delete-ai-nudify-apps-from-app-stores/
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Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack
Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London.The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority’s employees into an office to get their passwords…
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U.S. Treasury Sanctions VPN Provider and Cryptor Seller Behind Billions in Ransomware Losses
U.S. sanctions hit VPN provider 1VPNS and a cryptor seller for enabling ransomware gangs behind billions in losses to critical infrastructure. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two individuals and one entity on July 13 for supplying tools and infrastructure to ransomware groups that have caused billions of dollars in losses to…
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US sanctions VPN, malware providers for enabling ransomware attacks
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and one entity for enabling ransomware attacks against U.S. organizations. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-sanctions-vpn-malware-providers-linked-to-ransomware-gangs/
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U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors’ and other cybercriminals’ malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans.The VPN, named First VPN Service (1VPNS), has been accused of offering its tools to ransomware groups, along with its 45-year-old Ukrainian First…
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NSA revives ‘Tailored Access Operations’ name for elite hacking unit
NSA last week changed the moniker of its Office of Computer Network Operations (CNO) back to Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a name that is sure to elicit nostalgia among the broader digital community for a group with roots in the early 1990s. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/nsa-revives-tao-name-for-elite-hacking-unit
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What’s in a Name? The Quest to Understand Scattered Spider
Anarchic Western Adolescent Hacking Groups Appear to Defy Easy Categorization Some cybersecurity entities are groups, with office hours and vacation time. But others, such as Scattered Spider and other Com spinoffs, are largely comprised of adolescent hackers and extortionists, and often display more anarchic behavior that makes their efforts tougher to combat. First seen on…
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Former UK privacy chief preparing legal action against woman who reported him, minister says
Liz Kendall, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, said she was “absolutely appalled” at the findings of “sexual harassment and bullying” made by an independent investigation at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/former-uk-privacy-chief-preparing-legal-action-against-woman-who-reported-him