Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI Officials

In a stunning In new research, researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland published this week Satellites are leaking a lot of sensitive data without being fully encryptedFrom calls and text messages on T-Mobile, to in-flight Wi-Fi browsing sessions, to military and police communications. And they did it with just $800 in off-the-shelf equipment.

Facial recognition systems are seemingly everywhere. But what about this surveillance and identification technology? Can’t recognize your face as a face? Wired spoke with six people with facial differences who say flaws in this system are preventing them from accessing the services they need.

Authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom made the announcement this week About 130,000 bitcoins seized From a Cambodian scam empire. At the time of the seizure, the cryptocurrency fortune was valued at $15 billion — the largest sum of any kind ever seized in the United States.

Controls a significant portion of the US electoral infrastructure Now in the hands of a single former Republican operativeScott Leidendecker, who just bought voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems and owns Knowink, an electronic poll book firm. Election security experts are currently more confused about the implications than worried about any possibility of foul play.

New types of attacks may occur, however Let hackers steal two-factor authentication codes from Android phonesThe biggest cybersecurity development of the week was Violation of security agency F5. The attack, carried out by a “sophisticated” threat actor linked to China, poses an “imminent threat” of breaches against government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Finally, VPN for iPhones that we sifted through the mess Only three were found usable.

But that’s not all! Each week, we round up security and privacy news that we haven’t covered in depth Click on the title to read the full story. And stay safe out there.

In recent years, perhaps no single group of hackers has wreaked more havoc than the “COM,” a loose collective of mostly cybercriminal gangs with subgroups. Page $ And Scattered spiders Cyber ​​attacks and ransomware extortion campaigns have targeted victims from MGM casinos to Marks & Spencer grocery stores. Now they have turned their sites over to US federal law enforcement agencies

On Thursday, a member of Comm’s loose collective began posting an array of documents identifying federal officials on Telegram. One spreadsheet contained the personal information of 680 Department of Homeland Security officers, another contained the personal information of 170 FBI officials, and another contained the personal information of 190 Justice Department officials, according to 404 Media. In some cases the data included names, email addresses and phone numbers and addresses – in some cases of the officers’ homes rather than their work locations. The users who published the data mentioned in their messages a statement Reports from DHS that Mexican cartels offered agents thousands of dollars to locate information apparently scoffed at this unsubstantiated claim.

“Mexican Cartels hmu we dropped all the docs where my 1m,” wrote the user who released the files, using the acronym “hit me up” and apparently demanding a million dollars. “I want my money in Mexico.”

Last year—at least—the FBI operated a “secret” task force that may have worked to disrupt Russian ransomware gangs, according to reports released this week. France’s Le Monde And Germany’s Die Zeit. The publications allege that late last year, the mysterious Group 78 presented its strategy to two separate meetings of European officials, including law enforcement officials and those working in judicial services. Little is known about the group; However, its potentially controversial tactics have prompted normally tight-lipped European officials to talk about the Group of 78’s existence and strategy.

At the end of last year, according to reports, the group was focused on 78 Russian speakers black bag Ransomware outlined the gang and two methods: conducting raids inside Russia to disrupt gang members and try to get them to leave the country; and to “manipulate” Russian authorities into prosecuting Black Basta members. Over the past few years, Western law enforcement officials have taken increasingly disruptive action against Russian ransomware gangs— Penetrate their technological infrastructureis trying Ruining their reputationand issue a Bans and arrest warrants wave—but covert action inside Russia against ransomware gangs would be unprecedented (at least in public knowledge). Black Basta group in recent months 200,000 of its internal messages have since gone dormant Leaked and its alleged leader identified.

Over the past few years, AI-powered license plate recognition camerawhich have been placed on the side of the road or in police cars – have collected billions of images Human vehicles and their specific location. The technology is a powerful surveillance tool that, surprisingly, has been adopted by law enforcement officials across the United States — raising questions about how the cameras and data could be misused by officers.

This week, a Letter from Senator Ron Wyden A division of ICE, the Secret Service and Navy criminal investigators all had access to data from Flock Safety’s cameras. “I now believe that misuse of your products is not only possible but inevitable, and that Flock is unable and unwilling to prevent them,” Wyden’s letter to Flock said. Wyden’s letter follows a growing number of reports from government agencies, including CBP Access to Flock’s 80,000 cameras. “In my view,” Wyden wrote, “local elected officials can best protect their communities from the inevitable misuse of flock cameras by removing flocks from their communities.”