This Week in Cybersecurity
Each week at Applied Tech we recap the biggest cybersecurity news headlines from the week to keep you informed and ready to face the latest threats. Here’s your breakdown for the week of April 4th – April 10th.
Major FBI Breach
A data breach targeting an FBI surveillance system is being labeled as a “major incident” after the unauthorized access to the system was obtained through a third party.
Currently, hackers linked to China are under suspect for the incident and the FBA is following all required steps under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA).
Source: The Hill on Yahoo! News
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AI Pause at Meta
After a supply chain attack revealed AI industry secrets, Meta is halting its collaboration with AI startup Mercor.
This suspension comes after the LiteLLM supply chain attack resulted in a class action lawsuit and investigations at popular AI development companies OpenAI and Anthropic. This attack may have resulted in hackers gaining blueprints for the most popular AI models, along with personal data and other information. Meta’s partner Mercor creates training datasets for AI companies like these, and their information relating to how these powerful AI models are trained was exposed during this attack.
Source: The Next Web
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Telehealth Social Engineering
Popular telehealth company Hims & Hers has disclosed that it suffered a “sophisticated social engineering attack” earlier this year.
The attacker gained entrance to the brand’s third-part customer service platform, allowing access to customer service tickets. This incident, thankfully, did not give the attacker access to medical records or communications with providers. Compromised information is mostly limited to names and email addresses, according to Hims & Hers.
The company is reviewing its security measures to ensure another incident like this does not happen again.
Source: Cybersecurity Dive
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LinkedIn Smear Campaign or Truth?
An “association of commercial LinkedIn users” has published a report known as “BrowserGate” which alledges that LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript to scan users’ browsers for extensions and advertise its own sales tools that may compete with any installed extensions.
So far, it has been confirmed that the scanning part of these allegations is true, but LinkedIn says it’s to prevent users from violating the site’s terms of use. The social media platform also claims that the BrowserGate report is a smear campaign put together by an extension developer who lost a court battle against LinkedIn in Germany for “scraping and other violations.”
Source: TechRadar
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LAPD Data Stolen
The LA City Attorney’s Office has reportedly been hit with a cyberattack in which hackers stole private data from the LAPD.
Supposedly, the 7.7 terabytes of stolen information is highly sensitive, including officer personnel files documents from Internal Affairs investigations, disciplinary histories, civil litigation case documents, witness interviews, and more.
Source: TechRadar
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