All posts tagged "Hacking"

An OpenAI test model reportedly hacked its way into another company, sparking major concerns among the tech community, CNN reported on Wednesday.

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar spoke with CNN AI correspondent Hadas Gold about why this breach was so troubling.

"This is wild. This is like the nightmare of the future," Keilar said....

The Justice Department (DOJ) confirmed Friday that the personal email of FBI Director Kash Patel was compromised by an Iran-linked hacking group, sparking an uproar from critics who noted the irony in a top national security official not securing their own personal email account.

“The FBI boss who’s supposed to protect America couldn’t even lock down his own inbox from foreign spies,” wrote liberal influencer Ed Krassenstein Friday in a social media post on X to his more than 1 million followers. “How does this scream ‘strong on national security?’”

The group that claimed responsibility for the security breach is Handala Hack, which is affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, per the DOJ. Earlier this month, the DOJ issued a $10 million reward for information on any of its members....

The Congressional Budget Office was reportedly hacked by a foreign actor in a "security incident," according to reports Thursday.

The incident apparently happened in recent days "potentially exposing the key financial research data Congress uses to craft legislation," according to The Washington Post.

"Officials discovered the incursion in recent days and now worry that communications between lawmakers’ offices and nonpartisan researchers could have been accessed by an adversary or one of its digital proxies, as well as internal email and office chat logs," several sources told The Post....

San Francisco (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by NSO Group to block a WhatsApp lawsuit accusing the Israeli tech firm of allowing mass cyberespionage of journalists and human rights activists. The Supreme Court denied NSO's plea for legal immunity and ruled that the case, which targets the company's Pegasus software, can continue in a California federal court, a court filing showed. Pegasus gives its government customers -- which have allegedly included Mexico, Hungary, Morocco and India -- near-complete access to a target's device, including their personal data, photos, ......

Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced Monday that it had recovered more than half of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists Darkside, who had forced the shutdown of a major US fuel network. "Today, we turned the tables on Darkside by going after the entire ecosystem that fuels ransomware and digital extortion attacks, including criminal proceeds in the form of digital currency," said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. The seizure came one month after the group gave the US government a security scare by breaking into the computer s......

Washington (AFP) - The largest fuel pipeline system in the United States was forced to shut down its entire network after a ransomware attack, the operating company said in a statement Saturday. The Colonial Pipeline Company ships gasoline and jet fuel from the Gulf Coast of Texas to the populous East Coast through 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) of pipeline, serving 50 million consumers. It said it had been "the victim of a cybersecurity attack" which involved ransomware -- attacks that encrypt computer systems and seek to extract payments from operators. "In response, we proactively took cert......