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Chinese state-sponsored threat groups have targeted telecommunications, financial and government organizations in Africa in support of Beijing’s soft power agenda in the region, according to SentinelOne. Earlier this year, SentinelOne reported seeing a Chinese cyberespionage group targeting telecoms providers in the Middle East as part of an operation dubbed Tainted Love. The cybersecurity firm revealed on Thursday that the same threat actor, which could be linked to China’s APT41 group, has also been observed targeting…

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A new and mysterious APT group has been spotted targeting telco service providers in Europe and Asia as part of what appears to be a cyberespionage campaign, according to a joint investigation by SentinelLabs and QGroup GmbH. According to SentinelLabs researcher Aleksandar Milenkoski, the shadowy APT group is using a sophisticated modular backdoor based on Lua, the lightweight cross-platform programming language designed primarily for embedded use in applications. “Sandman has deployed a novel modular backdoor…

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MGM Resorts brought to an end a 10-day computer shutdown prompted by efforts to shield from a cyberattack data including hotel reservations and credit card processing, the casino giant said Wednesday, as analysts and academics measured the effects of the event. “We are pleased that all of our hotels and casinos are operating normally,” the Las Vegas-based company posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. It reported last week that the attack was…

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Researchers at Wiz have flagged another major security misstep at Microsoft that caused the exposure of 38 terabytes of private data during a routine open source AI training material update on GitHub. The exposed data includes a disk backup of two employees’ workstations, corporate secrets, private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages, Wiz said in a note documenting the discovery. Wiz, a cloud data security startup founded by ex-Microsoft software engineers, said…

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You may not know it, but thousands of often shadowy companies routinely traffic in personal data you probably never agreed to share — everything from your real-time location information to private financial details. Even if you could identify these data brokers, there isn’t much you can do about their activities, including in California, which has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S. That’s on the verge of changing. Both houses of the…

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