Exclusive — Sen. J.D. Vance: America ‘Under Attack’ from Chinese ‘State-Sponsored’ Hackers
Sen. J.D. Vance warned about how America is “under attack” from Chinese government-sponsored state hacking group Volt Typhoon.
Sen. J.D. Vance warned about how America is “under attack” from Chinese government-sponsored state hacking group Volt Typhoon.
A report published by cybersecurity firm Mandiant last week claimed that a gang of hackers linked to the Russian government has attacked water utility companies around the world, including a treatment plant in the northern Texas town of Muleshoe.
A report published from watchdog group 38 North suggests U.S. animation companies may have unwittingly used work from North Korea.
FBI director Chris Wray said at a security conference on Thursday that China’s legion of state-sponsored hackers “considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage.”
The AUKUS military alliance, whose founding members are Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, is reportedly considering Japan as a fourth member.
American and British officials on Monday announced criminal charges and punitive sanctions against a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group accused of victimizing millions of people in both countries over the past 14 years.
New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) revealed on Monday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers attacked two computer systems used by the New Zealand Parliament in 2021.
The McDonald’s fast-food chain suffered a worldwide system failure on Friday that knocked out the ordering system in many of its restaurants.
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has revealed a staggering increase in financial losses due to cybercrime in the United States, reaching an unprecedented $12.5 billion in 2023. This represents a 22 percent jump in losses over 2022.
A data breach at Golden Corral restaurants has exposed the personal information of over 180,000 employees and their beneficiaries, the company disclosed this week.
A major AT&T network outage that affected tens of thousands of customers nationwide on Thursday was not the result of a cyberattack, the company said.
A massive trove of leaked documents reveals Chinese security firm I-Soon worked as hackers under contract to the Chinese government.
Researchers have reportedly discovered a new side-channel attack that can extract a person’s fingerprints from the sounds made when a finger swipes across a touchscreen.
Wyze, a security camera company boasting 10 million users, is in hot water after a breach allowed 13,000 customers to see into other people’s homes.
Chinese state media went into overdrive this week to distract from revelations of a massive state-linked Chinese cyberattack on U.S. infrastructure, howling that China is actually the world’s biggest victim of cybercrime, while America is the greatest threat to global information security.
The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released “ethical guidelines” for brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
A source in the Japanese government said Chinese hackers leaked classified Japanese diplomatic telegrams in 2020.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday announced they were able to disrupt a massive Chinese cyber-espionage campaign called Volt Typhoon that penetrated critical American infrastructure systems.
Chinese Communist Party-backed hackers are targeting U.S. infrastructure, like water treatment plants and electrical grids, to “wreak havoc.”
The U.S. government is reportedly set to propose new rules requiring hospitals to adhere to basic cybersecurity standards to qualify for federal funding.
The National Security Agency (NSA) released its 2023 cybersecurity report on December 19, looking back over a year in which China and Russia remained massive cyber threats, artificial intelligence (A.I.) displayed growing promise and peril, and cyber threats to critical infrastructure grew more alarming.
2023 was a year filled with cybercrime, especially with the rise of crypto hackers. To celebrate the end of the year, Breitbart Tech has pulled together eight of the most notorious cybercrime incidents of the past 12 months.
Comcast confirmed that a data breach has affected close to 36 million Xfinity customers. Based on the company’s reported number of subscribers, this means practically all Xfinity customers have been placed at risk.
The Washington Post on Monday reported that concerns about China’s growing cyber-warfare assault on U.S. infrastructure systems are justified, as hackers linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have “burrowed into the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year.”
A possible cyberattack knocked out phone lines to police and fire departments in Israel for over an hour on Monday night.
The municipal water authority of the Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa announced on Saturday that one of its water stations was hacked by an Iran-backed criminal group called the “Cyber Av3ngers.”
Reuters on Tuesday published a disturbing expose of how thousands of North Koreans have been able to land jobs with foreign tech companies using fake names, phony profiles on services like LinkedIn, and interview scripts tailored to make them sound like they are not the subjects of a psychotic Communist tyranny.
Crooks and scammers are having a field day thanks to the advent of AI technologies used for cloning voices and extracting personal information from social media platforms. Cybercriminals are using AI to create convincing copies of young people’s voices, which are used to power “grandparent scams” targeting elderly relatives.
The Australian government said it was responding to a “significant cyber security incident” affecting several ports that could last a multiple days.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, used most of his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday for boilerplate about sustainable development, rising levels of income inequality, and calls for other nations to resolve their differences through negotiation rather than war.
A cyber security attack on the Clorox Company last month is reportedly causing product availability issues and an impact on its first-quarter earnings.
Microsoft on Thursday said it has detected a Chinese-controlled network of social media accounts that uses A.I. technology to impersonate American voters and spread propaganda to influence U.S. politics.
The FBI on Tuesday announced a successful multinational operation to take down a cybercrime ring known as “Qakbot.” The gang used an enormous botnet to spread ransomware through spam emails, inflicting hundreds of millions of dollars in damage on computer users around the world.
The government of Japan claimed it could not confirm any instance of cyberattacks compromising sensitive intelligence in the hands of the Ministry of Defense on Tuesday, a response to a Washington Post article the day before citing anonymous sources who claimed Japan’s cybersecurity was “shockingly bad.”
India has quietly banned its growing domestic drone industry from using Chinese parts due to fears of security vulnerabilities.
Hackers believed to be linked to China have exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft software to breach the email systems at over two dozen organizations, including some U.S. government agencies, as part of a suspected cyber-espionage campaign.
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant on Thursday revealed “the broadest cyber-espionage campaign known to be conducted by a China-nexus threat actor since the mass exploitation of Microsoft Exchange in early 2021.”
Reuters reported on Wednesday that a wave of Chinese hackers targeted the Kenyan government in a cyber-espionage campaign that lasted for three years, beginning after Kenya took out gigantic loans from Chinese banks to finance Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure projects.
Chinese hackers are targeting “critical communications” infrastructure in stealth-based attacks, Microsoft has warned.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the chief regulatory agency for Internet technology in the Communist tyranny, ruled on Sunday that some products from U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. failed a “security review.”