AT&T and Verizon refused to hand over the security assessments, says Cantwell US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has demanded that Google-owned incident response firm Mandiant hand over the Salt Typhoon-related security assessments of AT&T and Verizon that, according to the lawmaker, both operators have thus far refused to give Congress.… READ MORE HERE…

Malicious code lurking in over 5,000 downloads, says Socket researcher Developer freelancing platform Toptal has been inadvertently spreading malicious code after attackers broke into its systems and began distributing malware through developer accounts.… READ MORE HERE…

Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin Microsoft says it “cannot guarantee” data sovereignty to customers in France – and by implication the wider European Union – should the Trump administration demand access to customer information held on its servers.… READ MORE HERE…

Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home – helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers – has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role in a $17 million fraud that hit more than 300 American companies.… READ MORE HERE…

Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users’ financial apps A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.… READ MORE HERE…