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Plus: The FBI discovers a historic trove of homemade explosives, new details emerge in China’s hack of the US Treasury Department, and more.
Officials believe the attackers are an as-yet-unidentified Advanced Persistent Threat group linked to China’s government that exploited flaws in remote tech support software made by BeyondTrust to carry out what the Treasury Department described as a “major” breach. Prosecutors say the FBI found a backpack containing pipe bombs and adorned with a grenade-shaped patch with the hashtag #NoLivesMatter—a potential reference to a far-right extremist “accelerationist” group, The New York Times reports. Case in point: A whistleblower warned Germany’s Chaos Computer Club and the country’s Der Spiegel news outlet that Cariad, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, left exposed online a trove of 800,000 electric vehicles’ location data.
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