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The French news agency AFP has been hit by a cyber attack.
The attack on the information system of Agence France-Presse, which also affected parts of the transmission technology to customers, was discovered on Friday, the agency announced in Paris.
Employee protection comes first
Hackers have captured the names and contact details of all Dutch police officers, including undercover officers.
Shortly before it-sa
According to information from an anonymous source that has been available to it-daily.net since midday, NürnbergMesse has been the victim of a phishing attack.
Data is said to have been accessed in the process.
The exhibition company has now also confirmed the attack.
Thousands of mobile phone customers in Sweden received text messages in the summer of 2023 calling for revenge for the Koran burnings at the time.
It is now clear who is behind the text messages.
Sowing discord
US intelligence agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have published new findings about the hacker access from Iran to internal communications of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign team that became public in August.
Offline calculator
Experts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have hacked offline computers – i.e. systems that are not connected to a network such as the Internet.
Microsoft Office alternative
The IT security provider ESET has discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Office alternative WPS Office for Windows.
The vulnerability CVE-2024-7262 in the Office application enabled the hacker group APT-C-60 to use an exploit to execute foreign code on its victims’ devices.
700,000 US dollars in Bitcoin
Computer engineer Daniel Rhyne is said to have launched a massive cyberattack against his own employer.
Rhyne, who worked as a virtual machine (VM) expert at the company, used his position to secretly create a virtual machine on the company’s network.
After dismantling
The takedown of the LockBit ransomware group in February 2024 shook the cybercrime world.
According to WithSecure’s new report, LockBit is now in a rebuilding phase, with clear signs of a planned comeback.
240 GB archive
Japanese car manufacturer Toyota recently confirmed an incident in which customer data was exposed through a security breach at a third-party provider.
A hacker had previously published a 240 GB archive of stolen data on a hacker forum.