Last month, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group known as APT42 successfully stole emails from the Trump campaign and shared them with reporters. Recently, the FBI revealed that the same hackers also sent those stolen Trump communications to the Democrats.
The APT42 hacking group has been targeting both the Joe Biden and Donald Trump political campaigns. Republicans have compared the news to accusations that the Trump campaign “colluded” with Russian hackers in 2016. The Trump campaign has demanded that the Democrats “must come clean on whether they used the hacked material.”
In other cybersecurity news, the FBI has dismantled the largest-ever China-backed botnet, made up of 260,000 routers and internet-of-things devices. The botnet, known as Flax Typhoon, was allegedly being run by a Chinese contractor known as the Beijing Integrity Technology Group.
Additionally, two young men have been arrested for stealing $243 million in cryptocurrency and laundering the proceeds through mixing services. The men allegedly used a social engineering scam to trick the victim into resetting their Gemini two-factor authentication and transferring 4,100 bitcoin to a compromised wallet.
Apple’s latest desktop operating system update, macOS 15 (Sequoia), has also been found to break some functionality of major security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft.
Furthermore, a Florida man named Remy St. Felix has been sentenced to 47 years in prison for his role in a gang that broke into victims’ homes to threaten and extort them into handing over their crypto holdings.