Threat spotlight: Spike in leaked government data

Allegedly stolen datasets from government websites have started to appear more frequently on hacker forums in recent weeks, an executive at a top ransomware negotiation firm told Axios.

The datasets appear to include access to sensitive government systems and details about classified operations.

If the information is legitimate, cybercriminals could use it to inform future attacks or share it with adversarial governments.

Hackers are claiming to have gotten high-level access to the Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency, broken into defense contractors’ systems, and compromised a Pentagon employee’s account, according to Kurtis Minder, co-founder and CEO of GroupSense.

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