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09 June 2023 Security News

Cyber Yankee 23 USMC News 09 Jun 2023 -- Reserve Marines with Defensive Cyberspace Operations-Internal Defensive Measures Companies A and B, 6th Communication Battalion and Marine Innovation Unit participated in Cyber Yankee at Camp Net, CT, May 14-28, 2023.Cyber Yankee is a force-on-force regional, joint-service exercise that simulates a nation launching a cyber-attack on public utilities. This exercise gave Reserve Marines a unique opportunity to act as an attacking force against the other the branches of service as well as advise and help increase the skill level of the opposing teams.

Russian Nationals Charged With Hacking One Cryptocurrency Exchange and Illicitly Operating Another US Dept. of Justice 09 Jun 2023 -- According to court documents, Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, both Russian nationals, are charged with conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins from their hack of Mt. Gox. Bilyuchenko is also charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to operate BTC-e from 2011 to 2017.

US cyber-attacks on iPhones began as early as 2013, says report from Chinese cybersecurity company Global Times 09 Jun 2023 -- The US has been hacking iPhones since at least 2013, and this can be carried out either directly through Apple's mobile information receiving service or through the deployment of the "Quantum" system during the web browsing process on Apple's mobile browser, according to a new report by Chinese cybersecurity company Antiy Labs.

China approves world's first XBB-specialized COVID-19 vaccine as second wave nears end by June Global Times 09 Jun 2023 -- A recombinant trivalent COVID-19 trimeric protein vaccine developed by WestVac Biopharma and West China Medical Center at Sichuan University, effective against the most recent XBB variants, has received emergency use approval in China. This marks the world's first approved XBB-targeting vaccine, highlighting China's leading position in COVID-19 vaccine research and development, WestVac Biopharma announced on Thursday.
3 mln more doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Myanmar People's Daily 09 Jun 2023 -- Three million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines provided by China arrived in Myanmar's Yangon on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar.

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