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U.S. independent record label Empire Distribution, which has worked with Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and 50 Cent, had its sensitive data exposed as a result of an environment file misconfiguration, Cybernews reports.

Officials at the California Statewide Automated Welfare System disclosed that over 19,000 accounts in the state's BenefitsCal welfare program portal were compromised for almost a year, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Attacks deploying a malicious Python backdoor via fraudulent NPM packages spoofing as job interviews have been targeted at software developers by suspected North Korea-linked threat actors as part of the ongoing DEV#POPPER social engineering campaign, according to The Hacker News.

Belarus had its primary KGB security agency's network claimed to have been compromised by the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans hacktivist operation, resulting in the theft of data belonging to more than 8,600 KGB employees, The Associated Press reports.

Ukraine had its systems subjected to attacks involving the exploitation of an almost seven-year-old Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8570, to facilitate Cobalt Strike deployment late last year, reports The Hacker News.

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