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WASHINGTON – Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Department of Transportation (DOT) published a fact sheet that warns organizations of ongoing cyber threat activity targeting industrial refrigeration and cold chain monitoring systems. Critical infrastructure sectors that widely use these systems include Healthcare and Public Health, Chemical, Food and Agriculture, and Transportation Systems. Globally, malicious cyber actors are targeting vulnerabilities and weaknesses in unpatched or internet-accessible electronic temperature controllers and commercial refrigeration controllers in retail grocery and cold storage facilities. If successfully...

The U.S. government is warning of an "ongoing cyber threat" facing industrial refrigeration units, after reports of cyberattacks targeting freezers and fridges in supermarkets around the world, U.S. military bases, and at least one blood bank. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, the FBI, and several other federal government departments warned in a joint statement on Thursday that hackers are targeting and compromising internet-connected refrigeration and cold chain monitoring systems in grocery stores and cold storage facilities. The statement said that the hacks are hitting critical infrastructure, such as the food, agriculture, transportation, and medicine-shipping industries. "If successfully exploited, the actors could...

French blood banks were on Monday affected by the recent wave of cybersecurity attacks on European refrigeration systems, the French Blood Establishment confirmed on Wednesday. The organization said that while it wasn’t the direct target of the attack, cold storage units operated by external providers containing the EFS’ blood products were compromised across three of its sites, with hackers cranking up temperatures. “Specifically, temperature and defrost thresholds were set to excessively high levels,” the EFS said in a statement translated from French to English by CNBC. “These cold storage units—located at EFS preparation and distribution sites—are used to store blood...

A hack that publicly shared the identities of 41,000 Department of Homeland Security workers this week is fueling some violent rhetoric targeting immigration officers, an analysis of social media by the SITE Intelligence Group found. …. An account tied to an anarchist movement in Colorado posted information about five DHS employees working in one city. “We do not forget. We do not forgive. You will not avoid accountability,” the post read. Several accounts on platforms such as Instagram, Threads and X espoused violence, including calls to kill the officers and harm their families. ….. The “hacktivist” group that obtained the...

"This is what Dutch supermarkets look like after a suspected cyberattack. Earlier, hackers hit cooling systems in French supermarkets. This is just the beginning." Video at link.

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A Canadian cybersecurity executive who specializes in negotiating with ransomware hackers has reportedly been arrested on federal charges in Pennsylvania. Edward Dubrovsky, 54, was arrested Thursday in the Philadelphia area, according to federal court documents cited by Reuters. The arrest comes as the FBI investigates ShinyHunters, a hacking group that recently claimed to have stolen information concerning nearly every FBI employee. Authorities have not publicly confirmed whether Dubrovsky’s arrest is connected to that investigation. FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday in a post on X that agents had arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, the group believed to be responsible...

WASHINGTON — Chinese state-sponsored hackers infiltrated US government computer networks ranging from NASA to the US Senate before having web domains linked to their malicious cyber group shut down by the feds. The Department of Justice and FBI announced on Wednesday the seizure of three domains linked to Chinese state-sponsored hacking group QTFY, which had been used “to compromise critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks,” according to an FBI affidavit. Since 2018, an FBI special agent wrote in the affidavit, QTFY had succeeded in breaching networks at NASA, NIH, the DOJ, the Department of Health and Human Services, three Department...

Cyber warfare is increasingly coming for U.S. water supplies. Water providers in at least seven U.S. states have been targeted by cyberattacks over the past two weeks, according to multiple agencies including the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Some officials indicated that as many as a dozen states could have been impacted. The hackers targeted components known as programmable logic controllers, which allow utility providers to manage the flow and even chemical composition of water supplies to the homes and businesses they serve, according to the agencies. In many cases, they...

A California city pulled the plug on its entire computer network after a cyberattack knocked out key systems, including 911 routing and police and fire dispatch. Suisun City declared a state of emergency Saturday after malicious software breached its IT systems at about 5:45 a.m. Friday. The city’s response was drastic. Officials shut down the entire network to stop the threat from spreading and protect evidence for a federal investigation. Despite the digital chaos, Suisun City officials said residents are not facing an immediate danger. Emergency crews remain on the streets, with city dispatchers routing calls through the Solano County...

Cyberattacks on U.S. water systems that officials suspect may be linked to Iran-backed hackers have been reported in at least a dozen states, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News on Wednesday. Those states include Michigan, Minnesota, Georgia, New Jersey and South Dakota. In Minnesota specifically, more than 30 community water systems were impacted, CBS News previously learned. In Georgia, the Clayton County Water Authority, which serves 300,000 customers in the Atlanta area, said cyber activity last month caused a water pressure drop and forced the agency to issue a boil water advisory. Service was restored within hours, however....

Recently Facebook and Twitter revealed they had removed a network of accounts linked to the Iranian government that attempted to launch online Disinformation campaign. Microsoft said it seized 99 websites used by Iranian hackers to steal sensitive information and launch other cyber attacks. The company said the group, which it has been tracking since 2013, has tried to snoop on activists, journalists, political dissidents, defense industry workers and others in the Middle East, including some who were “protesting oppressive regimes” in the region. Hackers did so by tricking people in those organizations to click on malicious links disguised to resemble...

The official account for the Obama White House was hacked on Sunday and spammed with bizarre memes. The unidentified hacker added some pictures to the @obamawhitehouse account, including an AI-generated image that claimed the White House was now under Shiite control, according to TMZ. He also added some posts to the page's Instagram Stories. But a representative for Meta - the parent company of Instagram - said the account has now been secured and all of the unauthorized content removed. The account had previously last been updated in 2017, when President Donald Trump took office for his first term. However,...

STILLWATER, Okla. -Multiple schools in Oklahoma are affected by a cybersecurity breach that threatens to release data of teachers and students across the state. The online learning system Canvas is down for schools and universities nationwide. The University of Oklahoma sent out an automated email to students addressing the ongoing Canvas incident. In part, the statement reads: “The University of Oklahoma is aware of a cybersecurity incident involving Canvas, operated by Instructure. This is a global issue affecting institutions worldwide, and Canvas services are currently experiencing disruptions. The University is actively working with Instructure to monitor the situation and gather...

Microsoft was breached in the massive suspected Russian campaign that has hit multiple U.S. government agencies, including those responsible for maintaining America's nuclear weapons stockpile, according to people familiar with the matter. The sprawling attack, which targeted critical government infrastructure using a Trojan horse hidden in network management software from SolarWinds Corp, also compromised broad swathes of the private sector, likely including most of the Fortune 500, it emerged on Thursday. Officials say the attack went undetected for nearly nine months, allowing the hackers free range in the affected agencies and companies, and that the true scale of the stolen...

Tehran’s targeting campaigns against U.S. organizations ‘have recently escalated,’ a federal advisory warns.Iran has demonstrated an ability to penetrate networks tied to critical U.S. infrastructure before.WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are “urgently warning” private sector companies throughout the nation that Iranian actors “are conducting exploitation activity” that has resulted in “disruptions across several U.S. critical infrastructure,” according to a government notice reviewed by The Times.The Iranian cyberactivity comes as President Trump is threatening to target Iran’s critical infrastructure in the coming hours, particularly its bridges and power plants.Iran’s attack targeted products by Rockwell Automation’s Allen-Bradley, one of the most widely...

Operation Epic Fury marks a turning point in the art of war. The key to 20th-century battles was air power. In the past, space and cyber activities have traditionally played supporting roles as so-called force multipliers. But this is no longer the case. In this conflict they have become mainstream, carving out new fronts for the wars of the future. The use of space is no longer something that is just nice to have, because everything from comms to intel to navigation uses space and cyber assets. Along with the National Reconnaissance Office, which manages US spy satellites, the US...

Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hitZero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached an all-time high last year, with China-linked cyber-espionage groups remaining the most prolific state-backed users, according to Google. Google Threat Intelligence Group tracked 43 zero-days in enterprise software and appliances in 2025, representing 48 percent of all attacks against these previously undisclosed bugs. That's up from 36 (46 percent) in 2024. In total, the Chocolate Factory documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited last year, which is more than 2024's number (78), but still not as many as 2023's record high of 100. And...

Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors'Multiple Iranian hacking crews have been targeting internet-connected surveillance cameras across Israel and other Middle Eastern countries since the war started on February 28, according to Check Point security researchers. The Tel Aviv-based security shop has tracked "hundreds" of attempts to exploit a handful of bugs in IP cameras made by two manufacturers, Hikvision and Dahua, according to Sergey Shykevich, threat intelligence group manager at Check Point Research, in a conversation with El Reg. The countries targeted in these digital intrusion attempts - Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, Cyprus, and Lebanon...

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