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Sean Lyngaas

@snlyngaas
59 posts
2025-12-14
“Eight years ago, crypto casinos were obscure websites. Now they are a multibillion-dollar industry with dozens of operators.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-12-14 View on X
New York Times

Crypto casinos have become online gambling havens for teens and problem gamblers, propped up by operators who turn social media influencers into recruiters

Produced by Leo Dominguez and Rumsey Taylor  —  David and many people like him — young and chronically online …

2025-06-13
More zero-click spyware found on journalists' phones in Europe.  One of the victims, Italian journalist Piro Pellegrino, went on the record in this analysis from @citizenlab.ca: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...
2025-06-13 View on X
TechCrunch

A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February

Act Now To Prevent Attacks Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Apple Confirms iPhone Flaw Was Used to Spy on Journalists Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity : European Journalists Target...

2025-01-10
New —> Chinese hackers (Silk Typhoon) accessed information held by CFIUS, the powerful US inter-agency committee that can block foreign investments and real estate buys in the US on national security grounds: www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/p...
2025-01-10 View on X
CNN

Sources: Chinese hackers breached CFIUS, the US government office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks

Chinese hackers breached the US government office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks, three US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

2024-11-26
Update on Blue Yonder ransomware attack: Starbucks shifts to manual mode to tally baristas' hours; Ford says its investigating potential impact; Blue Yonder has enlisted CrowdStrike for incident response: https://www.cnn.com/...
2024-11-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A ransomware attack on major supply chain software provider Blue Yonder is disrupting operations at Starbucks, the UK's Sainsbury's and Morrisons, and others

Attack strikes operations managed through Blue Yonder, one of the largest supply chain technology providers

New -> BlueYonder, a software firm that big grocery chains & Fortune 500 firms use to manage their supply chains, was hit by a ransomware attack late last week. Impacts TBD. 2 UK grocery chains have reverted to backup or contingency processing for orders https://www.cnn.com/...
2024-11-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A ransomware attack on major supply chain software provider Blue Yonder is disrupting operations at Starbucks, the UK's Sainsbury's and Morrisons, and others

Attack strikes operations managed through Blue Yonder, one of the largest supply chain technology providers

2024-10-04
DOJ and Microsoft seize > 100 web domains that Russia's FSB intel agency was allegedly using in hacking operations targeting current and former US officials & Russian citizens in the US: https://www.cnn.com/...
2024-10-04 View on X
Bloomberg

The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016

Today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed a civil action brought … Ben Johnson : 👏 I'm very proud that today, it was unveiled that the NGO-ISAC,...

2024-08-28
“In November 2022, the head of MI5 made a rare public speech in which he revealed there had been at least 10 ‘potential threats’ by Iran to kidnap or kill people in the UK in that yr alone. At least one of those plots was aided by Iranian hacking efforts, a UK official told CNN”
2024-08-28 View on X
CNN

Investigation: a hacking group linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has targeted former members of the Trump and Biden administrations since 2022

Read some of the obsequious emails that alleged IRGC hackers posing as think tankers have sent to former Biden and Trump officials to try to break into their computers: https://www.cnn.com/... [image]
2024-08-28 View on X
CNN

Investigation: a hacking group linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has targeted former members of the Trump and Biden administrations since 2022

A CNN review of the hacking group, which experts believe works on behalf of Iran's IRGC), reveals previously unreported details of the hackers' multiyear operation, including how they have targeted former members of both the Trump & Biden administrations. https://www.cnn.com/...
2024-08-28 View on X
CNN

Investigation: a hacking group linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has targeted former members of the Trump and Biden administrations since 2022

2024-08-25
More evidence of the pervasiveness of Iranian hacking (Charming Kitten/APT42) activity aimed at US officials from both parties. Meta says it has blocked WhatsApp accounts that posed as tech support for Microsoft, Google, AOL, Yahoo to target WhatsApp users https://about.fb.com/...
2024-08-25 View on X
NPR

Meta says a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts linked to the Iran-backed hacking group APT42 targeted people affiliated with the Biden and Trump administrations

Shannon Bond / NPR :

2024-08-24
More evidence of the pervasiveness of Iranian hacking (Charming Kitten/APT42) activity aimed at US officials from both parties. Meta says it has blocked WhatsApp accounts that posed as tech support for Microsoft, Google, AOL, Yahoo to target WhatsApp users https://about.fb.com/...
2024-08-24 View on X
NPR

Meta says a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts linked to the Iran-backed hacking group APT42 targeted people affiliated with the Biden and Trump administrations

Meta says Iranian-linked hackers posed as tech support on the WhatsApp messaging app to target people affiliated with the administrations …

2024-08-11
New —> Iranian operatives have ramped up their attempts to influence and monitor the US presidential election by creating fake news outlets targeting liberal and conservative voters and by trying to hack an unnamed presidential campaign, per Microsoft. https://www.cnn.com/...
2024-08-11 View on X
Politico

Trump campaign says some of its internal communications were hacked, citing a Microsoft report that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email” to a campaign

The campaign suggested Iran was to blame.  POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation.

2024-08-01
New and exclusive —> Cyberattack hits blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood, affecting some shipments of blood to hospitals in Florida https://www.cnn.com/...
2024-08-01 View on X
CNN

A ransomware attack hits blood donation nonprofit OneBlood, which has asked over 250 hospitals in the US to activate their critical blood shortage protocols

A cyberattack has hit a blood-donation nonprofit that serves hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern US.

2024-07-21
Microsoft on CrowdStrike-related outage: About 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by faulty Falcon update, or less than 1% of Windows machines on planet. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
2024-07-21 View on X
The Official Microsoft Blog

Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines

On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally.  Although this was not a Microsoft incident …

2024-07-19
Note the warning from the CrowdStrike CEO not to fall for scams that will likely pop up round this incident: “We further recommend organizations ensure they're communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels."https://x.com/...
2024-07-19 View on X
@george_kurtz

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says “the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed”, and CrowdStrike is working with its impacted customers

CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security...

Note the warning from the CrowdStrike CEO not to fall for scams that will likely pop up round this incident: “We further recommend organizations ensure they're communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels."https://x.com/...
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

2024-07-12
New —> CDK, the software provider serving car dealerships across the US, paid $25 million ransom to hackers, per sources and blockchain data: https://www.cnn.com/...
2024-07-12 View on X
CNN

Sources: US car dealership software provider CDK Global appears to have paid ~$25M to hackers on June 21, after a ransomware attack shut down its systems

CDK Global, a software firm serving car dealerships across the US that was roiled by a cyberattack last month, appears to have paid …

2024-04-17
New —> A hacking incident in January caused a water tank in a small Texas town to overflow. A GRU-backed Telegram channel took responsibility (per Mandiant). I interviewed officials in multiple towns in north Texas on how they responded: https://www.cnn.com/...
2024-04-17 View on X
Wired

Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm

Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin's Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn't dare to.

2023-12-05
Another example of the PR playbook of staking out the early ground of “less than ____% of our customers are affected by this breach” not aging well: https://x.com/...
2023-12-05 View on X
TechCrunch

23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts

https://arstechnica.com/... John / @obeto@mas.to : That's the problem with biometric PIIs: they cannot be changed if a breach occurs.  —  If, some of the victims work in sensitive ...

2023-12-01
Meta executives confirmed that US officials haven't shared information with the platform related to foreign election interference since July, when Republican attorneys general brought a legal challenge to that threat-sharing work https://www.cnn.com/...
2023-12-01 View on X
CyberScoop

Meta officials say the US stopped proactively sharing information on foreign influence operations, as the company releases its Q3 2023 Adversarial Threat Report

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop :