The Senate is backing a measure to bar sales of U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves to Beijing. The latest development in a Chinese hacking incident involves the targeting of specific U.S. email accounts. Are Chinese self-driving cars collecting American data? Lawmakers are pressing for answers. Plus, the real story of NTD’s founding. Websites were attacked, advertisers…
Federal Agency Confirms It Was Hit in Massive Cyberattack
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that hackers have targeted it as part of a global cyberattack that exploited a software flaw. In a statement to news outlets Thursday, the agency said that “no HHS systems or networks were compromised,” adding that “attackers gained access to data by exploiting the vulnerability in…
Australia’s Banks Caught up in Russian Cyber Attack
The recent Russian cyberattack on law firm EWL Ebsworth has claimed another set of victims—this time, Australia’s four major banks. This comes as over 40 Australian government agencies are feared to have been impacted by the database hacking of HWL Ebsworth by the Russian cybercriminal group AlphV. While the four banks—ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank of…
Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions to Outlook, Cloud Platform Were Cyberattacks
BOSTON—In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite—including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps—and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Initially reticent to name the cause, Microsoft has now disclosed that DDoS attacks…
Russian National Charged for Alleged Ransomware Extortion From US, Foreign Businesses
A Russian hacker has been arrested and charged for allegedly deploying malicious software to dozens of computers and launching cyberattacks against multiple businesses in the United States and abroad. Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, 20, of the Russian-controlled Chechen Republic, was arrested and charged in Arizona on June 15 with conspiring to commit wire fraud and conspiring to intentionally damage…
NS Identifies Thousands More Victims of Global Data Hack, Including School Workers
Nova Scotia Cybersecurity Minister Colton LeBlanc says his department has identified thousands more people affected by a recent global data breach, and this week it is beginning the process of notifying the “most vulnerable” victims of the hack. But LeBlanc told a news conference Wednesday it’s hard to give a precise estimate of how many…
Moms for Liberty Website Shut Down by ‘Anonymous’ Hackers
May 26, 2023
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The Moms for Liberty website was shut down multiple times by unknown hackers. On May 24, the website for the national parents’ rights group, Moms for Liberty, came under attack by “Anonymous” hackers and was completely shut down several. While speaking with The Epoch Times, the co-founder of the organization said the website had just…
Australia Joins 5 Eyes Alliance in Denouncing China’s Cyber Attack on US Critical Infrastructure
Australia has joined the Five Eyes Security Alliance in condemning a recent cyberattack by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that has targeted critical infrastructure networks across the United States. The joint advisory was issued after it was discovered that a recent “cluster of activity” was associated with the CCP’s hacking group, Volt Typhoon—a state-sponsored actor…
Philadelphia Inquirer Hit by Cyberattack Causing Newspaper’s Largest Disruption in Decades
May 16, 2023
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PHILADELPHIA—The Philadelphia Inquirer says a weekend cyberattack caused the biggest disruption to its operations in 27 years and prevented it from publishing its Sunday print edition. The attack was detected Saturday morning when employees found that the paper’s content-management system wasn’t working, the Inquirer reported on its website. The paper “discovered anomalous activity on select…
Seminar Informs Public About Communist Threat as Alleged China Cyberattack Hits Orange County Hospital
March 23, 2023
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Over a hundred residents learned how the Chinese communist regime extended its long arm to threaten U.S. communities at a seminar in Warwick, New York. On the same day of the event, on March 22, a cyberattack out of mainland China was said to hit one of the largest health care providers in Orange County and held its system…
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