Security Wire
A curated security and critical-infrastructure wire, filtered through an Irish and EU lens. It pulls a basket of security-news sources and surfaces the slice touching sovereignty-relevant infrastructure — energy, health, telecom and subsea cable, water, government, finance and transport — dropping the global firehose.
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Unpatched Calix flaw lets hackers bypass NAT to expose internal devices
An unpatched vulnerability in Calix GS7 XGS (GS5239XG) residential routers used by multiple U.S. broadband providers allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to create port-forwarding rules that can expose local network devices to the public internet. [...]
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Global Telecom & Subsea
In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable to Stop Hackers, GitHub Denies AI Caused Bug
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Threema DDoS attack, Evooo1Bot Linux botnet, Crypto4A secures top-tier NIST certification. The post In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable to Stop Hackers, GitHub Denies AI Caused Bug appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia
Operation CameraSwarm targeted Dahua cameras across multiple countries, focusing on Russian and CIS telecom netblocks. The post Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Global Telecom & Subsea
New PATCHCORD Backdoor Targets Afghan Telecom and Indian Critical Infrastructure
Afghan telecom providers and South Asian critical infrastructure organizations have emerged as the target of a new ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented backdoor called PATCHCORD. According to Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU), the backdoor is a compiled C/C++ implant delivered by means of sector-specific lures, including fake VPN…
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Chinese telcos maintain deep US presence despite Salt Typhoon links, House committee says
Three Chinese telecommunications giants continue to have footholds in the U.S. internet ecosystem despite their alleged role in previous Chinese hacking campaigns, a House committee report concluded.
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Cheap Android TV Boxes Pose as Phones and Turn Owners’ Broadband Into Proxies
Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology Co., Ltd., a mainland China company founded in 2019. The same…
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Researchers Report 84 Flaws in 4G and 5G Cores, Including a Session Hijacking Flaw
An academic study has disclosed a "widespread class" of security vulnerabilities impacting 4G and 5G core networks that, if successfully exploited, could trigger denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and even session hijacking, allowing an attacker to seize control of a user's network session. The findings have been released by a group of researchers from…
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Finland to disconnect fiber-optic link to Russia as lease expires
Finland stopped power transmissions with Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine, and two related telecom connections will stop at the end of this year, authorities said.
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Global Telecom & Subsea
South Korea fines telco giant KT $39 million for customer data breach
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has fined telecommunications giant KT Corporation KRW 53.979 billion ($39 million) over data protection violations. [...]
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Russian Hackers Exploit Microsoft OWA Flaw to Keep Mailbox Access After Credential Rotation
The Russian threat actors recently linked to the exploitation of a now-patched vulnerability in Zimbra have been observed exploiting another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), to target U.S. and European government entities, as well as the telecommunications, financial, hospitality, and aerospace sectors. The activity, which…
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Cyberattack hits Angola’s largest telco hours before landmark stock debut
Angola’s largest telecommunications operator, Unitel, was hit by a cyberattack that has left millions of people nationwide without voice services, mobile data, and internet access.
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Global Telecom & Subsea
2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
CISA, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners released joint guidance, 2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) , that updates and replaces the minimum elements for an SBOM published by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in 2021. The new guidance…
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Taiwan to slow mobile data during national resilience drills
The speed of 5G and 4G networks across much of Taiwan will be temporarily reduced to 1 percent of capacity as the island holds annual civilian and military exercises.
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Police suspects Dutch hackers were involved in Odido breach
Dutch National Police report strong indications that Dutch hackers were involved in a February breach at telecom provider Odido, affecting EU critical infrastructure.
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Dutch police trace Odido telco cyberattack to suspected local accomplice
Dutch police identified a suspected local accomplice in the Odido telecom cyberattack that compromised data of over six million customers, implicating Dutch criminals in the breach.
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Global Telecom & Subsea
Telco giant KDDI says data breach affects over 12 million people
Japanese telecoms giant KDDI confirms breach affecting over 12 million people's email addresses and passwords across five ISPs' shared platform.
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Global Telecom & Subsea
New TrojPix Attack Leaks Data From Air-Gapped Systems via Video Cable Emissions
Researchers demonstrate TrojPix attack extracting data from isolated computers via imperceptible pixel manipulation and video cable emissions, requiring prior malware infection.
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