Experts discuss critical infrastructure and the future of the threat landscape

Stolen Cyberhaven employee credentials used to steal access tokens and business data from users of Facebook ads.

Nine U.S. telecommunications firms were confirmed by U.S. officials to have been compromised by Chinese state-backed threat group Salt Typhoon as part of its sweeping cyberespionage operation, with the newly-added unnamed entity's networks breached to facilitate geolocating activities for millions of individuals, Reuters reports.

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."