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  • The West Is Terrifyingly Vulnerable to Chinese Hacking of GPS

    04/28/2025 9:49:42 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 26 replies
    Heritage Foundation ^ | 04/28/2025 | Diana Furchtgott-Roth
    The West may be divided on tariffs, but all countries can agree that protecting global navigation satellite systems from interference from China, Russia and Iran is a matter of extreme importance. Disruptions would pose an immense economic and national security threat, costing trillions of dollars daily, dwarfing any market disruptions from tariffs.Global navigation satellite systems are free services that send positioning, timing and navigation systems to phones, banks and other electric utilities. America has the global positioning system (GPS), Europe has Galileo and China has Bei Dou. But these systems are vulnerable. They depend on satellites, which can be damaged...
  • Tulsi Gabbard Confirms: We Now Have Evidence on How Electronic Voting Systems are MANIPULATING VOTES in Elections!

    04/10/2025 10:10:44 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 49 replies
    100 Percent Fed Up ^ | April 10, 2025 | Staff
    Tulsi Gabbard says her team found proof that electronic voting machines are vulnerable to hacking! She’s calling for a nationwide return to paper ballots to safeguard election integrity. The revelation has triggered new investigations into voting system security. Election officials are now under pressure to respond. Looks like millions of “conspiracy theorists” are about to be vindicated. BREAKING: DNI Tulsi Gabbard says they have uncovered evidence that voting machines are vulnerable to hackers and exploitation aimed at manipulating vote results, which Gabbard says strengthens the mandate for paper ballots across the country.— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) April 10, 2025X Trending via...
  • China Admits Cyberwarfare Attacks on US Infrastructure Targets - and the Reason Is No Surprise

    04/10/2025 8:54:45 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    Red State ^ | 04/10/2025 | Ward Clark
    This whole thing with China goes well beyond trade issues. We have known (or, at least, suspected) for years that China has been making cyber-incursions into American networks and systems. Now, in an exclusive Wall Street Journal report from Cybersecurity and Intelligence reporter Dustin Volz, we learn that in December, China made a tacit admission of being behind a series of attacks on American infrastructure.Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers are...
  • Hacker Hits New York University Website, Posts Alleged Test Scores, GPAs Based On Race

    03/24/2025 5:13:20 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 03/24/2025 | Jennifer Kabbany
    New York University’s website was hacked on Saturday and its homepage replaced with purported SAT and ACT scores and GPAs for the 2024 student cohort, broken down by race.The hacker accused NYU of illegal admissions practices based on race. The alleged data posted on the hacked page reportedly showed that Asian students had higher average ACT and SAT scores, while white students had higher GPAs, compared to Hispanic and black applicants.The page featured a black background with green writing and the message: “On June 29 2023, racial affirmative action in college admissions was ruled illegal. Computer N–ggy Exploitation (CNE) reveals...
  • Coordinated cyberattack cripples X, Elon Musk suspects involvement of large group or country

    03/10/2025 11:29:16 AM PDT · by davikkm · 36 replies
    X just got hammered in a way we haven’t seen before. On Monday, the platform experienced a coordinated cyberattack so massive that it crippled services for hours. Elon Musk wasted no time, quickly confirming that the scale of the attack suggests it was likely carried out by either a powerful group or a nation-state. The implications of this are chilling. Reports started pouring in around 5:41 a.m., then surged again at 10:11 a.m., and once more at 11:11 a.m. Over 150,000 users reported issues. It wasn’t a minor outage. Something big was happening behind the scenes. You don’t get this...
  • 10 Chinese Nationals Charged With Large-Scale Hacking Of U.S. And International Victims On Behalf Of The Chinese Government

    03/06/2025 2:16:39 PM PST · by ransomnote · 7 replies
    Justice.gov ^ | March 4, 2025 | Justice.gov
    Eight Defendants Were Employees of i-Soon, a Chinese Company Hacking at the Direction of the Chinese Government, and Two Defendants are Chinese Officials Who Directed the HacksMatthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Sue J. Bai, the Head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division; and Leslie R. Backschies, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of a two-count criminal Indictment charging 10 defendants with a years-long hacking scheme committed through the Chinese company i-Soon. At...
  • Macron says price of peace 'cannot be the collapse of Ukraine' amid 'real' Russian threat to Europe

    03/05/2025 5:56:05 PM PST · by Dr. Franklin · 166 replies
    The Journal ^ | March 5, 2025 | Macron says price of peace 'cannot be the collapse of Ukraine' amid 'real' Russian threat to Europe
    The French president also warned that Europe must be prepared for the US “not to be at our side” going forward. FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL Macron has said that peace “cannot be achieved by abandoning Ukraine” as he warned of the “real threat” to Europe from Russia. Addressing the nation over the current global uncertainty in the wake of the radical change in US policy on Ukraine under Donald Trump, Macron also said that Europe has to be ready for the US “not to be at our side” going forward. It comes amid the breakdown in relations between Trump and Ukrainian...
  • Google Chrome users warned to delete 16 popular extensions due to ‘malicious’ threat risk

    03/02/2025 1:20:44 AM PST · by Libloather · 26 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/28/25 | Eric Hegedus
    Google Chrome users have been warned to delete 16 “malicious” browser extensions that could lead to a security threat and “fraud” at the hands of a prolific “threat actor.” The extensions affect functionality involving screen capture, ad blocking, emoji keyboards and more, with a potential impact on at least 3.2 million users, according to GitLab Threat Intelligence, which first reported the threat. The extensions inject code and harmful scripts into browsers, allowing hackers to steal user data and engage in search-engine fraud involving ad revenue, according to Tom’s Guide. After users granted permission to use them, the extensions, while legitimate,...
  • Wagoner County (OK) Sheriff's Office warns of clickjacking scam

    02/24/2025 4:57:00 AM PST · by LouAvul · 12 replies
    The Wagoner County Sheriff's Office is warning of a new scam where hackers are compromising accounts using clickjacking. WCSO said clickjacking is an old scam with a new variation. Clickjacking is an method where hackers, scammers or other criminals hijack your clicks on one website, to perform malicious actions on another site. You might think you are clicking a button on the site you are currently browsing, but that click will be used for something different. WCSO said hackers have now added another click to this attack method to get around modern browsers no longer sending cross-site cookies. In the...
  • Iran Hacked Trump Campaign, Turned Over Stolen Materials To Biden-Harris Campaign

    09/18/2024 6:15:37 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 37 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 09-18-2024 | By Ryan Saavedra
    The Islamic Republic of Iran hacked former President Donald Trump’s campaign and turned over the stolen materials to the Biden-Harris campaign, federal officials said in a statement. Federal officials from ODNI, FBI, and CISA said in a joint statement that Iranian hackers sent the stolen materials to then-Biden-Harris campaign officials in June and July. Information that the hackers sent to the then-Biden-Harris campaign “contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails.” “This is further proof the Iranians are actively interfering in the election to help Kamala Harris and Joe Biden...
  • How to minimize your digital footprint when you travel

    02/06/2025 2:45:27 AM PST · by Libloather · 25 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2/05/25 | Kurt Knutsson
    **SNIP** 1. Invest in personal data removal services: While no service promises to remove all your data from the internet, having a removal service is great if you want to constantly monitor and automate the process of removing your information from hundreds of sites continuously over a longer period of time. Check out my top picks for data removal services here. 2. Use personal security caution: Don't sign in to anything using your social media accounts. Sign in with your email instead and be sure to use an email address you've set aside just for these kinds of situations. 3....
  • Backdoor found in two healthcare patient monitors, linked to IP in China

    01/31/2025 8:49:05 PM PST · by Pete from Shawnee Mission · 24 replies
    BleepingComputer ^ | 1/30/2025 | Lawrence Abrams
    The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that Contec CMS8000 devices, a widely used healthcare patient monitoring device, include a backdoor that quietly sends patient data to a remote IP address and downloads and executes files on the device. Contec is a China-based company that specializes in healthcare technology, offering a range of medical devices including patient monitoring systems, diagnostic equipment, and laboratory instruments. CISA learned of the malicious behavior from an external researcher who disclosed the vulnerability to the agency. When CISA tested three Contec CMS8000 firmware packages, the researchers discovered anomalous network traffic to a...
  • DeepSeek hit by cyberattack as users flock to Chinese AI startup

    01/27/2025 5:34:07 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Chinese startup DeepSeek - whose new low-cost AI model rattled tech stocks Monday - suffered a large-scale cyberattack, causing it to temporarily limit registrations. Earlier in the day, DeepSeek said it was hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free app in Apple's U.S. App Store and overtook ChatGPT in downloads. DeepSeek claims it uses cheaper chips and less data, challenging the idea that advanced semiconductors, like those made by Nvidia, are needed to run AI applications. That sent major tech stocks tumbling, with shares of Nvidia falling as much as 17.8% at one...
  • SoCal homes swatted, officers taunted through hacked Ring camera

    01/23/2025 11:14:14 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 5 replies
    KTLA ^ | Jan 23, 2025 | Cameron Kiszla
    Racine resident Kya Christian Nelson, 23, admitted to one count of conspiracy and two counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release. From Nov. 7 to 13, 2020, Nelson went on a “swatting” spree where he’d falsely report dangerous situations at residences across the country, then livestream the ensuing police raids on social media, “sometimes while taunting responding police officers in communities such as West Covina and Oxnard,” the DOJ said. Those officers had often just cleared a home’s residents at gunpoint, as the reports they received...
  • DHS guts cyber review board as Trump moves against ‘misuse of resources’

    01/21/2025 7:19:59 PM PST · by Texas Fossil · 13 replies
    Defense One ^ | Jan. 21, 8:27 p.m. ET | David DiMolfetta
    The Department of Homeland Security has dismissed the members of its advisory committees—including the Cyber Safety Review Board, which investigates major cybersecurity incidents—as part of a Trump-administration drive to cut costs at the agency, according to three people familiar with the matter. An internal Jan. 20 memo from DHS Acting Secretary Benjamine Huffman said, “In alignment with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security, I am directing the termination of all current memberships on advisory committees within DHS, effective immediately...Future committee activities will be focused...
  • New 'Sneaky 2FA' Phishing Kit Targets Microsoft 365 Accounts with 2FA Code Bypass

    01/21/2025 8:22:25 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 7 replies
    thehackernews.com ^ | 01/17/2025 | Ravie Lakshmanan
    Nearly 100 domains hosting Sneaky 2FA phishing pages have been identified as of this month, suggesting moderate adoption by threat actors. "This kit is being sold as phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) by the cybercrime service 'Sneaky Log,' which operates through a fully-featured bot on Telegram," the company said in an analysis. "Customers reportedly receive access to a licensed obfuscated version of the source code and deploy it independently." Phishing campaigns have been observed sending payment receipt-related emails to entice recipients into opening bogus PDF documents containing QR code that, upon scanning, redirects them to Sneaky 2FA page Sekoia said the phishing pages...
  • Teacher social security numbers included in PowerSchool data breach impacting Carolinas, US

    01/15/2025 3:02:53 PM PST · by fso301 · 9 replies
    WBTV ^ | Jan 14, 2025 | Claire Kopsky
    Nearly four weeks since the start of the PowerSchool data breach began families, teachers and school districts remain in the dark about the scope of the breach compromising personal information uploaded on the platform.PowerSchool, a cloud-based platform that tens of thousands of schools use all over the country, has been the official student information system (SIS) since 2009 in South Carolina and 2013 in North Carolina.
  • Blinken on if There Should Be Harsher Consequences for China’s Hacking: We’re Trying ‘to Stay Ahead of’ Hacking

    01/14/2025 5:18:09 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/14/2025 | Ian hatchett
    During an interview with MSNBC aired on Monday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded to a question on whether there should be more consequences for China over its cyberhacking by stating that we’re trying “to stay ahead of it, both in terms of our defenses, both in terms of taking action, as necessary, against China, making sure that others are doing the same thing, other countries, working from the same page.” Blinken stated, “[W]hat we’ve done over these past years is to shore up our defenses everywhere, including right here at this department, to do everything possible...
  • US Army soldier who allegedly stole Trump's AT&T call logs arrested

    01/02/2025 6:41:03 AM PST · by Salman · 39 replies
    \the \register (UK) ^ | 1 Jan 2025 | Jessica Lyons
    A US Army soldier has been arrested in Texas after being indicted on two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information. While the indictment doesn't specify any hacking activity or victims' names, Cameron John Wagenius, 20, is suspected of being a cybercriminal known as Kiberphant0m, who claimed to have breached at least 15 telecommunications firms including AT&T and Verizon, according to KrebsOnSecurity. Wagenius is allegedly an associate of Connor Riley Moucka, one of the men accused of compromising multiple organizations' Snowflake-hosted environments, stealing sensitive customer data housed in the cloud storage service, and then extorting victims for millions...
  • Russia Provides New Internet Connection to North Korea

    10/01/2017 6:23:30 PM PDT · by ameribbean expat · 9 replies
    A major Russian telecommunications company appears to have begun providing an Internet connection to North Korea. The new link supplements one from China and will provide back-up to Pyongyang at a time the US government is reportedly attacking its Internet infrastructure and pressuring China to end all business with North Korea. The connection, from TransTeleCom, began appearing in Internet routing databases at 09:08 UTC on Sunday, or around 17:38 Pyongyang time on Sunday evening. Internet routing databases map the thousands of connections between telecom providers and enable computers to figure out the best route to a destination. Until now, Internet...