Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Mexico’s president announced the government is investigating an alleged ransomware hack that targeted the administration’s legal affairs office. The authorities launched an investigation after the ransomware gang Ransomhub claimed the attack and published samples of personal information from a database of government.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2025

The Rhysida Ransomware gang claims the hack of the Government of Peru, the gang breached Gob.pe, the Single Digital Platform of the Peruvian State. The Rhysida ransomware gang claims responsibility for hacking the Government of Peru, breaching Gob.pe, which is the country’s official digital platform.

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The Hacker News

JULY 6, 2025

A hacking group with ties other than Pakistan has been found targeting Indian government organizations with a modified variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) called DRAT.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 6, 2025

A sophisticated spear-phishing campaign using Signal targeted Armenian civil society and government in March 2025, linked to threat actor UNC5792.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based based technology companies.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 2, 2025

government has set out the scope of its upcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill for the first time. Amid a sharp spike in ransomware attacks disrupting essential services and critical infrastructure, the U.K.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2025

Earth Kurma APT carried out a sophisticated campaign against government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia. Trend Research exposed the Earth Kurma APT campaign targeting Southeast Asias government and telecom sectors. Earth Kurma particularly targeted the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 23, 2025

House of Representatives has banned WhatsApp on government devices, citing security and transparency concerns. Meta strongly disputes the "high-risk" assessment.

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Penetration Testing

MAY 25, 2025

Recorded Futures Insikt Group has uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign by Russia-aligned threat actor TAG-110 targeting public sector The post Russian-Aligned TAG-110 Targets Tajikistan Governments with Stealthy Cyber-Espionage appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2024

government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. The government isn’t saying where the Omed brothers are being held, only that they were arrested in March 2024 and have been in custody since. A statement by the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2025

The FBI warns that ex-government officials are being targeted with texts and AI-generated deepfake voice messages impersonating senior U.S. officials to current or former senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts Since April 2025, threat actors have been using texts and AI voice messages impersonating senior U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

government officials searched online for non-extradition countries and for an answer to the question “can hacking be treason?” The government disclosed the details in a court motion to keep the defendant in custody until he is discharged from the military. ” prosecutors in the case said Wednesday.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 16, 2025

It’s kind of crazy to think that the US government might damage its own security in this way—but I suppose no crazier than any of the other ways the US is working against its own interests right now. My guess is that we will somehow figure out how to continue this program without the US government.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 8, 2025

This is the access that the Chinese threat actor Salt Typhoon used to spy on Americans: The Wall Street Journal first reported Friday that a Chinese government hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon broke into three of the largest U.S. government’s investigation is in its early stages.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 30, 2025

Today, we're happy to welcome the Gambia National CSIRT to Have I Been Pwned as the 38th government to be onboarded with full and free access to their government domains. We hope this initiative helps support the Gambia National CSIRT as it has with many other governments around the world.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 12, 2025

This is news : A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2025

government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot , a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The government says it is now working with industry partners to notify DanaBot victims and help remediate infections.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

government indicted Matveev as a top ransomware purveyor a year later, offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. Last week, the Russian government reportedly arrested Matveev and charged him with creating malware used to extort companies. government’s “Wanted” poster for him.

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The Hacker News

JULY 3, 2025

The French cybersecurity agency on Tuesday revealed that a number of entities spanning governmental, telecommunications, media, finance, and transport sectors in the country were impacted by a malicious campaign undertaken by a Chinese hacking group by weaponizing several zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) devices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2025

The business services provider Conduent told the SEC a January cyberattack exposed personal data, including names and Social Security numbers. The business services provider Conduent revealed that personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, was stolen in a January cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2025

House has banned WhatsApp on government devices due to data security concerns. House banned WhatsApp on official devices over security concerns, citing risks flagged by the Chief Administrative Officer. Similar restrictions apply to AI tools like ChatGPT , ByteDance apps, and Microsoft Copilot. ” continues the email.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Cybersecurity reporter Kim Zetter notes that DHS didn’t cite any specific justification for its ban in 2017, but media reports quoting anonymous government officials referenced two incidents. government for its hacking operations, CEO Eugene Kaspersky says he ordered workers to delete the code. Last year, the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Something this complex and impressive implies that a government is behind this. North Korea is the government we know that hacks cryptocurrency in order to fund its operations. Aqua Security researchers have also observed the malware serving as a backdoor to install other families of malware. But this feels too complex for that.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 15, 2025

The UAE has promised to spend more than $3 billion to transform into an “ AI-native ” government by 2027. The French government has gone so far as to train its own AI model to assist with legislative tasks. The Emirati proposal is different from those examples in important ways. In 2020, the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Like other spyware makers, Paragon’s hacking software is used by government clients and WhatsApp said it had not been able to identify the clients who ordered the alleged attacks. ” It is not clear who was behind the attack.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The TL;DR is that this time, we ended up discovering ~150 Amazon S3 buckets that had previously been used across commercial and open source software products, governments, and infrastructure deployment/update pipelines—and then abandoned.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 23, 2025

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a Go-based malware called XDigo that has been used in attacks targeting Eastern European governmental entities in March 2025.

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The Hacker News

MAY 15, 2025

A Russia-linked threat actor has been attributed to a cyber espionage operation targeting webmail servers such as Roundcube, Horde, MDaemon, and Zimbra via cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, including a then-zero-day in MDaemon, according to new findings from ESET.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In some jurisdictions, this line is most-effectively drawn by a government-appointed privacy commissioner who is required to remain neutral and yet ultimately serves the citizens of its country. Set clear standards on what is required by the private sector, and what the government will do to assist with cybersecurity.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 11, 2025

. […] According to prosecutors, the group as a whole has targeted US state and federal agencies, foreign ministries of countries across Asia, Chinese dissidents, US-based media outlets that have criticized the Chinese government, and most recently the US Treasury, which was breached between September and December of last year.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The Armenian Government is now the 37th to have free and open access to their domains on HIBP (this gives them API-level domain searches to their gov TLD) After two and a bit years on sale, we're now giving away "Pwned" the book, for free (go grab it in PDF or EPUB format) Is your recovery? Protect your data in the cloud.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

Researchers at the security firm Silent Push mapped a network of several dozen phishing domains that spoof the recruitment websites of Ukrainian paramilitary groups, as well as Ukrainian government intelligence sites. The website legiohliberty[.]army army features a carbon copy of the homepage for the Freedom of Russia Legion (a.k.a.

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