FBI alert: scammers target zoning permit applicants
2026-03-10T02:51:44Z•1f10dbfb31922dbc85056fe68512e44c40bb7503aea34a5bf92ef68c3c180045
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What happened
Multiple high-impact security stories: the FBI warns of phishing campaigns where attackers impersonate U.S. city/county officials to target zoning/permit applicants; Dutch intelligence reports Russia-linked actors targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government and military officials worldwide; Cognizant’s TriZetto Provider Solutions suffered a data breach exposing sensitive health records for >3.4M patients; Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model discovered 22 Firefox vulnerabilities (most high severity) fixed in Firefox 148; a critical Nginx UI vulnerability (CVE-2026-27944, CVSS 9.8) was
Why it matters
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- Source ID
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- Record identifier
- 1f10dbfb31922dbc85056fe68512e44c40bb7503aea34a5bf92ef68c3c180045
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-10T02:51:44Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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