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The state-sponsored Russian hacking group tracked as Sandworm has compromised eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between May and September 2023.

A new, lightweight variant of the RomCom backdoor was deployed against participants of the Women Political Leaders (WPL) Summit in Brussels, a summit focusing on gender equality and women in politics.

Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, has pulled its Desktop release 23.10 after its Ukrainian translations were discovered to contain hate speech. According to the Ubuntu project, a malicious contributor is behind anti-Semitic, homophobic, and xenophobic slurs that were injected into the distro via a

Amnesty International says the Vietnamese government is likely behind a wave of attempted Predator spyware infections against targets including members of the U.S.

A newly discovered campaign dubbed

Microsoft says a Chinese-backed threat group tracked as Storm-0062 (aka DarkShadow or Oro0lxy) has been exploiting a critical privilege escalation zero-day in the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server since September 14, 2023.

The BianLian extortion group claims to have stolen 210GB of data after breaching the network of Air Canada, the countrys largest airline and a founding member of Star Alliance.

Hackers allegedly affiliated with the Vietnamese government supposedly tried to plant spyware on the mobile devices of United States politicians.

Flagstar Bank is warning that over 800,000 US customers had their personal information stolen by cybercriminals due to a breach at a third-party service provider.

23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack.