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Cancer treatment and research center City of Hope is warning that a data breach exposed the sensitive information of over 820,000 patients. City of Hope is a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center providing treatment for cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening diseases.
The U.S. Department of State is investigating claims of a cyber incident after a threat actor leaked documents allegedly stolen from a government contractor. "The Department is aware of claims that a cyber incident has occurred and is currently investigating," a State Department spokesperson told BleepingComputer.
Microsoft still doesn't known how Storm-0558 attackers managed to steal the Microsoft Services Account cryptographic key they used to forge authentication tokens needed to access email accounts belonging to US government officials. "The stolen 2016 MSA key in combination with [a] flaw in the token validation system permitted the threat actor to gain full access to essentially any Exchange Online account," CISA's Cyber Safety Review Board noted in a recently released Review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion.
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The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China. A Tuesday announcement penned by attorney-general and minister of defence Judith Collins reveals that in 2021 the nation's Government Communications Security Bureau and National Cyber Security Center "Completed a robust technical assessment following a compromise of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Parliamentary Service in 2021, and has attributed this activity to a PRC state-sponsored group known as APT40."
A U.S. federal court has issued a $9,918,000 penalty and an injunction against an individual named Scott Rhodes for making thousands of "Spoofed" robocalls to consumers across the country. Robocalls are automated phone calls that use automated dialing software to deliver a pre-recorded message to many recipients.
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The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for working with OFAC-designated Russian dark web markets and banks. The first, Bitpapa IC FZC LLC, is a peer-to-peer virtual currency exchange that caters to Russian nationals and has facilitated millions of dollars in transactions with two OFAC-designated Russian entities, Hydra Market and Garantex.
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Wuhan-based company used by the Chinese Ministry of State Security as cover in attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure organizations. The Office of Foreign Assets Control has also designated two Chinese nationals linked to the APT31 Chinese state-backed hacking group and who worked as contractors for the Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited MSS front company for their involvement in the same attacks and "Endangering U.S. national security."