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Wall Street Journal also a victim of espionage

Less than a day after The New York Times revealed that its reporters were targeted by Chinese hackers, The Wall Street Journal disclosed on Thursday that its systems were also breached by attackers from China wanting to observe the newspaper's coverage of the country. The Journal remained coy about the details of the compromise, unlike The Times, which ran a long story detailing how its systems were hijacked over the last four months. The story in The Journal did say the attack is believed to have emanated in the publication's Beijing bureau and that, on Thursday, it completed a network security overhaul.

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Italian websites subjected to pro-Russian DDoS attack campaign

Security Affairs reports that numerous Italian websites — including those of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Turin Transport Group, and the Linate and Malpensa airports — have been compromised as part of a distributed denial-of-service attack by pro-Russian hacktivist operation NoName057, which noted the intrusions to have been launched in retaliation of "Italian Russophobes."

Online store of European Space Agency compromised

Intergovernmental space exploration body European Space Agency had its online shop compromised with a malicious script triggering a bogus Stripe payment page that sought to exfiltrate payment card details and other sensitive customer details, reports BleepingComputer.

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