Russian Spies Are Aggressively Seeking Western Technology as Sanctions Bite, Officials Say
Russia's intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as sanctions squeeze the country's wartime economy, three senior European intelligence officials told The Associated Press. Moscow's agents are building fake companies, recruiting middlemen and deploying cyber spies and hackers who are gathering information that could also be used to attack key infrastructure, they said. READ MORE...
23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach
The office of Rob Bonta, California's attorney general, is suing 23andMe for the data protection failings that led to the genetics company's disastrous 2023 breach. Bonta and his team claim [PDF] that 23andMe failed to implement adequate security controls for the sensitive records it stored, and misled customers about the nature of the mishap after the fact. The lawsuit was filed against Chrome Holding Co., formerly known as 23andMe. TTAM Research Institute bought 23andMe's assets last year. READ MORE...
Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks
Password manager Dashlane has disabled a number of user accounts as a precaution amid a spate of brute force attacks. It didn't specify the scale of the attack, although scores of users have queried the reason for receiving emails informing them of account suspensions. "Your account has been temporarily suspended for security reasons as someone has attempted to register a new device and didn't enter the correct token after several tries," the emails read. READ MORE...
As Global Powers Explore Humanoid Robots, Cyber-Risk Looms
Forget formless large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) agents: global superpowers are already building a future around embodied AI, and using cyberattacks to gain an upper hand in it. A new industrial revolution is fomenting, some experts say. It was manufacturing and steam power the first time around, railroads and electricity the second, and the Internet and telecommunications not so long ago. This time the change might be led by embodied AI systems. READ MORE...
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorities. The host infrastructure was located in the Netherlands. According to a report Thursday by the NL Times, the botnet was linked to a Russia-based company. READ MORE...
Election threats are focused on campaign systems, not voting machines
Cybersecurity threats to the 2026 midterm elections are targeting the accounts and platforms that campaigns, donors and voters use to communicate, according to a security report released Monday by Check Point Software Technologies. So far in this election cycle, threats are not aimed at voting machines or ballot-counting systems. Instead, threat actors are going after the email accounts, websites and fundraising platforms that election organizations depend on. READ MORE...
New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions
A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request mechanism, and gain root privileges. The issue impacts multiple Linux distributions that ship vulnerable combinations of the kernel CIFS and cifs-utils (versions 6.14 and higher, although some older variants are also affected). READ MORE...
Critical Windows Netlogon RCE flaw now exploited in attacks
The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), the country's national authority for cybersecurity, warned on Friday that threat actors are now exploiting a recently patched critical Windows Netlogon vulnerability in attacks. Netlogon is a remote procedure call (RPC) interface and a core Microsoft Windows Server background service that authenticates services and users on Windows domain-based networks. READ MORE...
- ...in 1779, the court-martial of Benedict Arnold convenes in Philadelphia, PA.
- ...in 1812, President Madison asks Congress to declare war on England.
- ...in 1958, During a French political crisis over the military and civilian revolt in Algeria, Charles de Gaulle is called out of retirement to head a new emergency government.
- ...in 1980, CNN (Cable News Network), the world's first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut.
