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LightBasin Hacking Group Breaches 13 Global Telecoms In Two Years A group of hackers that security researchers call LightBasin has been compromising mobile telecommunication systems across the world for the past five years. Since 2019, the group hacked into more than a dozen telecommunication companies and maintained persistence through custom malware, to steal data that
China’s VPN Market Now Open To Foreign Investment The central government of China in Beijing has announced a decision to allow foreign entities to invest in the ownership of VPN (virtual private network) services in the country. Under this new policy, foreign investors can only own up to 50% of China-based VPN companies. This allows
Man Gets 7 years In Prison For Hacking 65K Health Care Employees Justin Sean Johnson, also known as TheDearthStar and Dearthy Star, was sentenced this week to seven years in prison for the 2014 hack of the health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). After breaching UPMC’s human resources databases, Johnson stole the Personally Identifiable
FBI Warns Of Fake Govt Sites Used To Steal Financial, Personal Data The FBI warned the US public that threat actors actively use fake and spoofed unemployment benefit websites to harvest sensitive financial and personal information from unsuspecting victims. Sites used in these attacks are designed to closely resemble official government platforms to trick the