Tag: nation state actor
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Soldier's Cybercrime Spree Targets AT&T, Snowflake, Ends in 70-Month Sentence
Meet Cameron Wagenius, a former soldier who traded his badge of honor for a life of cybercrime, targeting giants like AT&T and Snowflake in a brazen spree that ultimately led to a 70-month prison sentence and a hefty restitution order of nearly $295,000. His guilty plea and sentencing bring closure to a multi-year saga of digital deception and attempted extortion that threatened to drain over $1 million from his victims.
PyPI Package elementary-data Compromised to Steal Developer Data
A malicious release of the popular elementary-data package on PyPI, which has over 1.1 million monthly downloads, allowed an attacker to steal developer data through a sneaky backdoor. This widely-used open-source tool for data observability in dbt pipelines became a prime target for the secrets-stealing campaign.