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Chinese-owned social media apps Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, and Lemon8 — both of which gained traction across the U.S. ahead of the temporary TikTok ban last month — have also been restricted in all devices provided by the Texas state government, according to The Associated Press.

Treasury's payment system "simply cannot fail, and any politically-motivated meddling in them risks severe damage to our country and the economy," said Wyden in a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, which also noted the cybersecurity risks and conflict of interest stemming from Musk's business interests in China.

Attackers who targeted Casio UK's website between Jan. 14 and 24 deployed a two-stage skimmer that consisted of an unobfuscated loader purporting to be a third-party script that triggers the second-stage skimmer that not only encrypted and exfiltrated contact information, credit card details, and billing addresses but also concealed malicious activity through XOR-based string masking and custom encoding.

Operations of the firm's client delivery services have not been interrupted by the incident, which has not yet been claimed by any ransomware gang, noted Tata Technologies in a notification filed with India's national stock exchange.

Attacks involved luring targets looking for "Microsoft Ads" and other similar terms on Google Search into clicking on nefarious sponsored links, which redirect to a phishing page resembling the "ads.microsoft[.]com" site that seeks users' login credentials and two-factor authentication codes later used for account takeovers.

Attackers were discovered by Microsoft to have deployed a password spraying intrusion compromising USAID's global admin account in a test environment to establish another account before commencing cryptomining activities exploiting Azure resources, documents seen by Scoop News Group revealed.

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In an attack vector that's been used before, threat actors aim to commit crypto fraud by hijacking highly followed users, thus reaching a broad audience of secondary victims.

Attacks involved the distribution of malicious PDF files to the targeted individuals, according to a WhatsApp spokesperson, who noted that Paragon has already been sent a cease-and-desist letter regarding the attempted intrusions.