FBI searches laptop farms of DPRK IT employees in Texas, US citizens arrested

FBI searches laptop farms of DPRK IT employees in Texas, US citizens arrested

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the operations of the Famous Chollima threat group by arresting two suspects, charging 14 people and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker programs. The famous Chollima (aka WageMole) is often tracked as a North Korean threat actor associated with fraudulent IT worker … Read more

Employee arrested after listening device found in OpenAI conference room, FBI and company say

Employee arrested after listening device found in OpenAI conference room, FBI and company say

An engineer at OpenAI has been accused of secretly installing a recording device in a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an attempt to record sensitive conversations about the company’s technology. The employee was identified as a 35-year-old Saudi citizen Abdulrahman AlfozanAccording to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco, … Read more

The FBI blames the contractor’s missed patch for the ShinyHunters breach

The FBI blames the contractor’s missed patch for the ShinyHunters breach

The FBI has fired an Accenture contractor over a data breach that exposed personal information of thousands of office employees, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The FBI has not publicly named the contractor or the organization involved. However, a senior official of the office said Reuters that the review … Read more