Registered Agents Inc., a secretive company whose business is building other businesses, has registered thousands of businesses over the years to people who seemingly don't exist. Multiple former employees told WIRED that the company routinely incorporated businesses on behalf of its customers using what it claimed were fake personas. Investigations revealed that the incorporation documents of thousands of companies listing these alleged fake individuals had ties to registered agents.
State attorneys general across the country sent a letter to Meta on Wednesday, taking “immediate action” against the company amid a record spike in complaints about hacked Facebook and Instagram accounts. I asked. Figures provided by the office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who is spearheading the effort, show that her office received more than 780 complaints in 2023, 10 times more than in 2019. It is shown. She said Mehta did nothing about many of the complaints cited in the letter. They recover stolen accounts. “We decline to serve as your customer service representative,” the officials wrote in the letter. “Adequate investment in response and mitigation is essential.”
Meanwhile, Meta suffered a major outage this week that took most of the platform offline. Upon resurgence, users were often forced to re-login to their accounts. But last year, the company changed its two-factor authentication system for Facebook and Instagram. From now on, all devices that you've used frequently in the Meta service in recent years will be trusted by default. The move has experts worried. This means you may no longer need his two-factor authentication code to log in to your device. We've updated the guide on how to turn off this setting.
A ransomware attack targeting healthcare company Change Healthcare has disrupted pharmacies across the country and delayed prescription drug deliveries across the country. Last week, a Bitcoin address connected to AlphV, the group behind the attack, received his $22 million in cryptocurrency. This suggests that Change Healthcare likely paid the ransom. A company spokesperson declined to say whether the payments had been delayed.
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In January, Microsoft revealed that a notorious Russian state-backed hacking group known as Nobelium had compromised the email accounts of its senior leadership team. Today, the company revealed that an attack is underway. The company said in a blog post that in recent weeks it has seen evidence that hackers are using information leaked from its email system to access source code and other “internal systems.”
It's unclear exactly which internal systems were accessed by Nobelium, which Microsoft calls Midnight Blizzard, but the company says the attack is far from over. The blog post states that hackers are now using “secrets of various kinds” to further infiltrate systems. “Some of these secrets were shared in emails between the customer and his Microsoft. Having discovered them in the leaked emails, we will assist these customers in taking mitigation steps.” We have and will continue to keep in touch.”
Nobelium is responsible for the SolarWinds attack, a sophisticated supply chain attack in 2020 that compromised thousands of organizations, including major U.S. government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and Department of Treasury.