#Treasury sanctions Salt Typhoon hacking group behind breaches of major US telecom firms

#Treasury sanctions Salt Typhoon hacking group behind breaches of major US telecom firms

The U.S. government has announced sanctions against a Chinese organization with links to Salt Typhoon, the hacking group responsible for the largest telecoms hack in U.S. history.  The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Friday that it had sanctioned a China-based cybersecurity company, known as Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, which it…

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#Clop ransomware gang names dozens of victims hit by Cleo mass-hack, but several firms dispute breaches

#Clop ransomware gang names dozens of victims hit by Cleo mass-hack, but several firms dispute breaches

The prolific Clop ransomware gang has named dozens of corporate victims it claims to have hacked in recent weeks after exploiting a vulnerability ​​in several enterprise popular file transfer products developed by U.S. software company Cleo.  In a post on its dark web leak site, seen by TechCrunch, the Russia-linked Clop gang listed 59 organizations…

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#A drone punched a hole into an LA firefighting plane

#A drone punched a hole into an LA firefighting plane

Don’t fly your drone into an active wildfire. Although capturing video of the devastation can be tempting, it could stop firefighters from doing their job. That’s exactly what happened in Los Angeles on January 9 when a drone collided with a “Super Scooper” firefighting plane, The LA Times reports.  This happened as LA fights its…

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