U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order approving a plan to restructure TikTok operations in the country to address national security concerns.
11The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging three Iranian hackers with a "hack-and-leak" campaign that aimed to influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
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Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
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In a surprising move, Twitter has lifted the "permanent suspension" of former U.S. President Donald Trump's account. The move follows a Twitter poll ran by Elon Musk that asked users whether to reinstate Trump's account—the majority of 15 million respondents answered affirmatively.
14Newly launched social site GETTR suffered a data breach after a hacker claimed to use an unsecured API to scrape the private information of almost 90,000 members and then shared the data on a hacking forum.
4Apple has removed the Parler social network app from the App Store for violating policies, including not providing an updated moderation plan or an updated app with objectionable content removed.
26Google has banned the conservative social networking app Parler from the Google Play Store for not removing posts that incite violence in the US.
8Twitter has permanently suspended President Trump's account for concerns that Trump's tweets may cause further violence in the United States.
14U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden has criticized the Trump administration over the lack of response regarding the SolarWinds response and for failing to officially attribute the attacks.
2The DontTouchTheGreenButton website just launched by the Trump campaign in relation to the lawsuit filed on rejected votes in Arizona is leaking voter data.
2Nation state-sponsored hacking groups operating from Russia, China, and Iran are targeting organizations and individuals involved in this year's U.S. presidential election according to Microsoft.
3Multiple Reddit subreddits have been defaced during the last 24 hours, with the attackers behind this incident posting pro-Trump messages and changing the subreddits' themes to show content supporting Trump's 2020 campaign.
7REvil ransomware group claims to have buyers ready for documents containing damaging information about US President Donald Trump and is preparing to auction data on international celebrity Madonna.
1The TrickBot malware has been spotted using text from articles about President Trump's impeachment to bypass the scanning engines of security software.
0Just as people express their political views through art, malware developers express their political ideologies, hopes, and frustrations through the computer infections they create.
2Prior to the Trump-Putin summit that took place on July 16 in Helsinki, Finland, cyber-attacks on the host country saw an uncharacteristic spike of activity.
0I guess even ransomware developers do not like being called scammers as shown by a recent venting session by the King Ouroboros ransomware developer on Twitter.
1Two separate sources have confirmed that the USB-powered fans handed out at the North Korea-United States political summit that took place on June 12 were most likely clean and not infected with malware.
0The campaign website of a controversial US politician was hacked last year and hosted Russian SEO spam, according to several sources.
6President Donald Trump has signed a bill into law on Tuesday that also includes a clause that officially bans the use of Kaspersky products on US federal government computers.
5A rogue Twitter employee deleted President Trump's personal Twitter account on his last day as a customer support rep for the social network.
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