Lawrence Abrams reports: An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have stolen nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal development respositories, with the company confirming it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances. This data allegedly includes approximately 800 Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which can contain sensitive information about a…
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Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia
How much money enticed these teens to do something that may have just wrecked their future? Did they see it as just quick and easy money and no big deal? Alexander Martin reports: Two teenagers have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of espionage, reportedly on behalf of pro-Russian hackers. The boys, both aged…
CISA Emergency Directive 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices
This page contains a web-friendly version of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Emergency Directive 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices. CISA is aware of an ongoing exploitation campaign by an advanced threat actor targeting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA). The campaign is widespread and involves exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to gain unauthenticated…
U.S. Secret Service disrupts telecom network that threatened NYC during U.N. General Assembly
CBS News reports: The Secret Service has disrupted a sprawling telecommunications network in the New York tri-state area that investigators say posed a serious potential disruption to New York’s telecom systems and a possible threat to the United Nations General Assembly meetings this week. In the largest seizure of its kind, the U.S. Secret Service…
‘I Was a Weird Kid’: Jailhouse Confessions of a Teen Hacker
Margi Murphy reports: Between the money bag and clown emojis, the lmfaos and the loooools, a pixelated thumbnail of a teenager covered in blood appeared in a Telegram group chat on a September afternoon in 2022. Noah Urban, then an 18-year-old living in Palm Coast, Florida, clicked play. He watched as the kid in the video begged him…
China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries
Luke James reports: Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system. The files appear to…