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US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and…
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North Korean remote IT staffer worked for US government agency, says FBI
The FBI is reportedly investigating how a North Korean was hired to work for a U.S. federal government…
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US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it did not have a prepared response plan for how it should…
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Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites
The U.S. Army has reportedly fixed two of its websites that had been defaced to display pro-Kurdish messages…
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Cisco says hackers have been exploiting a critical bug to break into big customer networks since 2023
Cisco says hackers have been exploiting a bug in one of its popular networking products used by large…
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Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret US government surveillance, sounds new alarm over ‘CIA activities’
A senior Democratic lawmaker with knowledge of some of the U.S. government’s most secretive operations has said he…
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Hacks, thefts and disruption: The worst data breaches of 2025
Every year, TechCrunch looks back at the cybersecurity horrorshows of the past 12 months — from the biggest…
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CISA warns federal agencies to patch flawed Cisco firewalls amid ‘active exploitation’ across the US government
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says federal government departments are not sufficiently patching to protect against an active hacking…