Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

LANIT Group (Laboratory of New Information Technologies) is one of Russia’s largest IT service and software providers. Founded in 1989, LANIT offers a wide range of IT solutions, including system integration, software development, cybersecurity, cloud services, and IT consulting. In May 2024, U.S. ” said U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The US government’s continued investigation into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign.” reads the report published by the telecommunications company. “To Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Speaking to Reuters , a senior US official said the attack telecommunications infrastructure was broad and that the hacking was still ongoing. We don’t just report on threats – we help protect your social media Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2025

. “A recent compromise of a US state’s Army National Guard network by People’s Republic of China (PRC)-associated cyber actors—publicly tracked as Salt Typhoon—likely provided Beijing with data that could facilitate thehacking of other states’ Army National Guard units, and possibly many of their state-level cybersecurity partners.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

“Like the entire telecommunications industry, T-Mobile has been closely monitoring ongoing reports about a series of highly coordinated cyberattacks by bad actors known as “Salt Typhoon” that are reported to be linked to Chinese state-sponsored operations. ” reads the report published by the telecommunications company.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2025

Google's report confirms that UNC3944 continues to "demonstrate persistence and adaptability in targeting organizations, particularly those in the retail, hospitality, and telecommunications sectors." Additionally, the retail sector has complex supply chains, making it harder to deploy resilient cybersecurity strategies.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

For cybersecurity professionals, the new strategy signals a shift toward greater public-private collaboration, stronger regulatory measures, and increased investment in cyber innovation. Expanding cybersecurity awareness programs like Get Cyber Safe to improve cyber hygiene among individuals and businesses.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

This is the same technology that now flirts with people online for you and automatically writes heartfelt consolatory emails on behalf of heartless administrators. Similarly, take a minute to update the hardware on your home router, or ensure that your telecommunications provider does it if the router came from them.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 6, 2025

Plus, find out how your company can create a better cybersecurity environment. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released three quantum-resistant algorithm standards in 2024 and expects to release a fourth in 2026. So how do you create an organizational environment that boosts cybersecurity?

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

telecommunications providers , including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies. CISA and global cybersecurity agencies urges organizations to harden Cisco devices against these attacks. sanctions, Insikt Group expects Salt Typhoon to continue targeting telecommunications providers in the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2025

officials revealed that the Chinese group Volt Typhoon had maintained undetected access to power grids, ports, and telecommunications providers for as long as five years—long enough to map every breaker, valve, and switch they might someday wish to sabotage. Technology investment is moving in the same direction. In February, U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 22, 2025

Disrupting a single subsea telecommunications cable can incur "more than 24 million euros per day" in costs, while damages to oil and gas pipelines can easily reach "tens of billions of euros" for repairs alone. In response, nations are deploying cutting-edge technologies. The stakes are astronomically high. Dedicated Vessels: The U.K.,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2025

Petersburg Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives Serial Hacker “IntelBroker” Charged For Causing $25 Million In Damages To Victims Police arrest five high-profile French hackers behind a notorious data theft forum Cybercriminals Abuse Open-Source Tools To Target Africa’s Financial Sector FBI Warns of Scattered (..)

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

it earned a spot on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) list of the 15 most exploited flaws from 2020 to 2022. In one example, the Chinese group APT5, operating from the most active nation state targeting VPN devices, maintained access to compromised VPN infrastructure in the telecommunications sector for months.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. but given the Salt Typhoon breach and the apparent lackluster security practices and culture at just about every American telecommunications company, this was too interesting to ignore. They also have appeared to partner with Proton.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

CISA adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog VMware failed to fully address vCenter Server RCE flaw CVE-2024-38812 Cisco states that data published on cybercrime forum was taken from public-facing DevHub environment Internet Archive was breached twice in a month Unknown threat actors exploit Roundcube Webmail flaw (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

custody in exchange for Marc Fogel North Korea-linked APT Emerald Sleet is using a new tactic U.S.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

seeks to close critical cybersecurity gaps in the United States telecommunications infrastructure. telecommunications system. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have since advised consumers to adopt encrypted messaging apps to mitigate the risks of interception. cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Soldier Major cybercrime operation nets 1,006 suspects UK hospital network postpones procedures after cyberattack Tether Has Become a Massive Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Traffickers, Feds Say Florida Telecommunications and Information Technology Worker Sentenced for Conspiring to Act as Agent of Chinese Government Rockstar 2FA: A Driving (..)

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reveals that 90% of initial access to critical infrastructure comes via identity compromise like phishing, compromised passwords, identity systems and misconfigurations. As new technologies are regularly adopted, they come accompanied by new threats. A report from the U.S.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2024

targets companies from Russia and Belarus in various industries, including government and commercial organizations, entertainment and technology firms, telecommunications companies and industrial enterprises. Today they were wiped to the root. Victims C.A.S

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2024

telecommunications company. “A White House official said Friday the US identified a ninth telecommunications company impacted by a wide-ranging Chinese espionage effort and that further steps are planned to curb cyberattacks from Beijing.” telecommunications firms were compromised in the attack.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2025

When the NSA discovers a technological vulnerability in a service such as Signal (or buys one on the thriving clandestine vulnerability market), does it exploit it in secret, or reveal it so that it can be fixed? A separate attack from China last year accessed a similar capability built into US telecommunications networks.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2025

1 - NIST updates Privacy Framework, tailoring it to the Cybersecurity Framework and adding an AI section Recognizing the data protection and cyberattack prevention overlap and are deeply intertwined, the U.S. government is aligning two foundational privacy and cybersecurity frameworks. This week, the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Among the disbanded bodies was the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), a public-private initiative established in 2022 to assess significant cybersecurity events and provide actionable recommendations. telecommunications infrastructure, compromising critical systems and threatening national security. telecom providers. telecom providers.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 27, 2025

government agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). APT34 OilRig Helix Kitten Hazel Sandstorm Earth Simnavaz Exploits internet-facing servers and uses supply chain attacks to target finance, energy, chemical, telecommunications and government sectors. Some aliases overlap between these groups.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

military fiscal year 2025 dedicates approximately $30 billion to cybersecurity , marking it as a crucial focus in the broader $895.2 Richard Staynings , Chief Security Strategist for IoT security company Cylera and teaching professor for cybersecurity at the University of Denver, provides comments throughout. billion military budget.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2025

President Trump last week issued a flurry of executive orders that upended a number of government initiatives focused on improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture. telecommunications providers at the hands of Chinese state-sponsored hackers. Image: Shutterstock. Greg Meland.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2025

Tech Support Scam, Arrests Key Operatives in Noida Call Center BaitTrap – The rise of baiting news sites behind online investment fraud FBI Atlanta Seizes Major Video Game Piracy Websites GLOBAL GROUP: Emerging Ransomware-as-a-Service, Supporting AI Driven Negotiation and Mobile Control Panel for Their Affiliates Former U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2025

2024 Election HIPAA Security Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Electronic Protected Health Information Telegram blocks Russian state-owned media channels in several EU countries Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. in Major Breach, U.S.

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Zero Day

JULY 1, 2025

Under the Biden administration, which took some steps to regulate AI, states were already introducing AI legislation as the technology evolved rapidly into the unknown.  In the meantime, the country is effectively flying blind, which has prompted several states to introduce their own AI bills.

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Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

  How the moratorium works Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD)  is a $42-billion program run by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that helps states build infrastructure to expand high-speed internet access.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. Threat actors stole a database containing the list of users of the portal of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ).

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 9, 2019

Government has impacted federal cybersecurity according to several reports. The roughly 800,000 federal workers currently on furlough include: 45% of staff from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , which is tasked with defending critical infrastructure from cyber and physical threats.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

Category Awareness, News, Case Study As one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, telecommunication has become a highly vulnerable target for cybersecurity threats. The Industry Information technology's ability to connect and communicate has become integral to our society here in the digital age. Read more of the ACT

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

Some hold this view dogmatically, claiming that it is technologically impossible to provide lawful access without weakening security against unlawful access. But, in the world of cybersecurity, we do not deal in absolute guarantees but in relative risks. That telecommunications company was GTE­which became Verizon.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Some hold this view dogmatically, claiming that it is technologically impossible to provide lawful access without weakening security against unlawful access. But, in the world of cybersecurity, we do not deal in absolute guarantees but in relative risks. That telecommunications company was GTE -- which became Verizon.

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