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Cyberthreat News covers the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, attacks and exploits. Keeping up to date on these trends allows cybersecurity professionals to take proactive measures to safeguard digital assets and reduce the impact of security incidents. This information also enables them to demonstrate their expertise and position themselves as trusted advisors to clients and stakeholders.

April 2024: A data breach of El Salvador’s national cryptocurrency wallet Chivo exposed over 144 GB of sensitive personal information about millions of people. The cause of the breach is unknown. March 2024: The African Union’s IT network was knocked offline for more than a week by an unidentified attacker. The attack affected the organization’s internet connection and prompted it to temporarily shut down its financial intelligence system FINTRAC.

September 2023: Russian hackers leaked access details for a nuclear base in Scotland and high-security prisons on the dark web. The criminals gained the information by gaining backdoor access to Ministry of Defense files through a British fencing developer.

February 2024: Roughly 190 megabytes of data from a Chinese cybersecurity company were publicly exposed online, revealing the firm’s espionage efforts on governments in the United Kingdom, India, Indonesia and Taiwan. The data also revealed a number of flaws in popular software.

August 2024: Iranian cyber spies hacked a U.S. congressman’s emails and leaked political and medical documents, as well as messages that allegedly link the politician to money laundering and sanctions evasion plots.

Russian cyber spies attacked the International Criminal Court’s IT systems ahead of an ongoing probe into Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine. They used fake digital personas to build rapport with targets and then sent them a link to a credential harvesting page.