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Austal USA, a shipbuilding company and a contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that it suffered a cyberattack and is currently investigating the impact of the incident.

The LockBit ransomware gang has released a free decryptor for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), saying one of its members violated rules by attacking the healthcare organization.

Ransomware gang apologizes, gives SickKids hospital free decryptor

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Russian troops stole almost $5 million worth of farm equipment from a John Deere dealer in the occupied city of Melitopol, Ukraine, only to discover that the machines have been shut down remotely, making them inoperable

Remote lockouts reportedly stop Russian troops from using stolen Ukrainian farm equipment Some equipment was hauled nearly 700 miles away.

A new espionage actor is breaching corporate networks to steal emails from employees involved in big financial transactions like mergers and acquisitions.

New espionage group is targeting corporate M&A – TechCrunch In some cases, the advanced persistent threat group went undetected in victims' networks for as long as 18 months.

A China-linked government-sponsored threat actor observed striking European diplomatic entities in March may have been targeting Russian government officials with an updated version of a remote access trojan called PlugX.

Chinese Hackers Targeting Russian Military Personnel with Updated PlugX Malware A Chinese government-linked hacker group has been observed targeting Russian officials and military personnel with an updated version of the PlugX.

On Monday, Block, the financial service company that owns Cash App and was created by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, announced it learned the former employee downloaded the information in December, according to a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Although the ex-employee had access to the information during employment, the report says the information was downloaded after the employee was no longer with the company.

The data downloaded didn't include usernames, passwords, Social Security numbers or bank account information, but it did include full names and brokerage account numbers, which are used to identify a user's stock activity on Cash App Investing. Some information also breached "included brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and/or stock trading activity for one trading day."

Over 8 million Cash App users possibly affected by data breach from a former employee An employee of the mobile payment application downloaded reports after no longer being with the company.

The future has arrived in North Texas. A ten-pound drone is now able to deliver packages up to three pounds to certain neighborhoods in Frisco and Little Elm.

Drone deliveries to begin in Frisco, Little Elm

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on government oversight of cryptocurrency that urges the Federal Reserve to explore whether the central bank should jump in and create its own digital currency.

The Biden administration views the explosive popularity of cryptocurrency as an opportunity to examine the risks and benefits of digital assets, said a senior administration official who previewed the order Tuesday on the condition of anonymity, terms set by the White House.

Under the executive order, Biden also has directed the Treasury Department and other federal agencies to study the impact of cryptocurrency on financial stability and national security.

Brian Deese and Jake Sullivan, Biden's top economic and national security advisers, respectively, said the order establishes the first comprehensive federal digital assets strategy for the United States.

Biden signs order on cryptocurrency as its use explodes President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on government oversight of cryptocurrency that urges the Federal Reserve to explore whether the central bank should jump in and create its own digital currency. The Biden administration views the explosive popularity of cryptocurrency as an....

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In total, threat actors compromised 40 themes and 53 plugins belonging to AccessPress, a developer of WordPress add-ons used in over 360,000 active websites.

Over 90 WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack A massive supply chain attack compromised 93 WordPress themes and plugins to contain a backdoor, giving threat-actors full access to websites.

The FBI said Monday that ransomware from the shadowy DarkSide group forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline network, as the major fuel supplier said it was beginning to resume operations after the three-day freeze.

Colonial said in a statement that it was moving toward a partial opening of its 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) of pipeline -- the largest fuel network between Texas and New York -- after hackers locked down its corporate IT systems on Friday, apparently demanding a significant amount of money in ransom.

FBI: DarkSide group behind ransomware hacking of US Colonial Pipeline The FBI said Monday that ransomware from the shadowy DarkSide group forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline network, as the major fuel supplier said it was beginning to resume operations after the three-day freeze.

When contacted by Yahoo News, civil liberties experts expressed alarm at the post office’s surveillance program. “It’s a mystery,” said University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone, whom President Barack Obama appointed to review the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks. “I don’t understand why the government would go to the Postal Service for examining the internet for security issues.”

The Postal Service is running a running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.