Security News
The Chinese APT known as TA423 (aka Red Ladon, APT40 and Leviathan) has been operating a cyberespionage campaign across Australia, Malaysia and Europe. The campaign has had three distinct phases – the latest from April 2022 to mid-June 2022. The primary targets have been Australian organizations and energy exploration in the South China Sea.
Google today introduced a new bug bounty program to reward security researchers who discover and report vulnerabilities in the company’s open source projects.
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has announced the targets and prizes for its next Pwn2Own hacking competition, as well as the introduction of a new category that aims to simulate a real world home office environment.
Federal regulators have sued a data broker they accuse of selling sensitive geolocation data from millions of mobile devices, information that can be used to identify people and track their movements to and from sensitive locations, including reproductive health clinics, homeless shelters and places of worship.
The FBI is warning of an increase in attacks targeting decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms to steal cryptocurrency.
Elon Musk’s legal team is demanding to hear from Twitter’s whistleblowing former security chief, who could help bolster Musk’s case for backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company.
