Tag Archives: Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

May 18, 2026
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The Private CISA GitHub repo exposed dozens of plaintext credentials to important CISA GovCloud resources. The filenames include AWS-Workspace-Bookmarks-April-6-2026.html, AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv, Important AWS Tokens.txt, kube-config.txt, etc.

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.

Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day

July 21, 2025
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On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compromise vulnerable organizations. The patch comes amid reports that malicious hackers have used the Sharepoint flaw to breach U.S. federal and state agencies, universities, and energy companies.

New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’

August 27, 2024
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Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China.

Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

November 17, 2022
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Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things,… Read More »