BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – MARCH 17: Coins of Bitcoin are offered as merchandising in an exchange shop on March 17, 2022, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images) Treasury Department sanctions cryptocurrency ‘mixer’ Tornado Cash Treasury accused the mixer of failing to stop laundering from malicious cyber actors including North Korea's Lazarus Group. Aug 8, 2022 By Tonya Riley
(Getty Images) Twilio, a texting platform popular with political campaigns, reports breach The company says it became aware of the hack on Aug. 4 but it declined to say how many customers were affected by the incident. Aug 8, 2022 By Tonya Riley
(Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images) Twitter breach exposes anonymous accounts to nation state hackers Twitter confirmed Friday that a bad actor used a vulnerability to match private information with potentially anonymous Twitter accounts. Aug 5, 2022 By Tonya Riley
(Getty images) Giving water sanitation inspectors cybersecurity oversight is a mistake, say industry groups, experts The water sector is seen as among the nation's most vulnerable critical infrastructure to cyberattack after attacks in Florida and California. Aug 5, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley
Municipal workers gestures behind a banner which reads as “Donetsk People Republic’s square” with the letters Z, which has become a symbol of support for Russian military action in Ukraine in Moscow on June 15, 2022. (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images) Cyber Front Z, a Russian troll operation ousted from Facebook, was clumsy, ineffective, according to Meta The details were part of the company's larger quarterly adversarial threat report. Aug 4, 2022
Adam Hickey, deputy assistant attorney general in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 26, 2017. (Photo: YURI GRIPAS/AFP via Getty Images) DOJ now relies on paper for its most sensitive court documents, official says A top DOJ official said potential vulnerabilities in the online case management system means that "going online is not always the best thing." Aug 4, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley
Albania national flag waving in wind on background of blue cloudy sky. (Irik Bikmukhametov/Getty) Hackers deploy new ransomware tool in attacks on Albanian government websites The hackers linked to the Iranian government claimed to have attacked Albania for hosting an opposition group conference. Aug 4, 2022 By AJ Vicens
(Getty Images) Federal courts left Americans’ data exposed, senator tells Supreme Court chief justice Sen. Ron Wyden said privacy rules aren't being followed, putting thousands of Americans at risk of having their most sensitive data exposed. Aug 4, 2022 By Tonya Riley
Students walked in front of a TV screen displaying footage of Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 23 in Hong Kong. Federal officials say Chinese state-sponsored hackers have recently grown more brazen. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images) Global network of fake news sites push Chinese propaganda, researchers find More than 70 bogus sites in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia are part of an information operation pushing pro-Beijing messages. Aug 4, 2022
Nate Fick, the nominee to become the first U.S. ambassador at large for cyberspace and digital policy, seen here at a 2011 tech conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Fick is former cybersecurity CEO with connections in the tech sector as well as government circles. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) State Department needs more cyber policy muscle, says cyberspace ambassador nominee Nate Fick told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the threat from China is probably "the defining strategic question of my generation." Aug 3, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley