More than 600,000 customers were without power in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Maine. The majority of the outages were in Maine, where about 429,000 customers were without power, followed by Massachusetts, where about 133,000 had lost power.

Oil and natural gas prices rose sharply after BP said it would pause all shipments through the Red Sea because of increased attacks on commercial vessels by Houthi militants from Yemen.

Snowy and icy roads prompted highway closures in at least five states as the powerful storm produced near-zero visibilities and coated some parts of the central U.S. in an inch of ice.

The closures disrupted trade and vehicle traffic during the busy Christmas holidays.

Industry security officials say the Chinese military has hacked into the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year, including a “a water utility in Hawaii.”

RGC-affiliated cyber actors using the persona “CyberAv3ngers” are actively targeting and compromising Israeli-made Unitronics Vision Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs). These PLCs are commonly used in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector and are additionally used in other industries including, but not limited to, energy, food and beverage manufacturing, and healthcare.

Scientists say one of the largest solar flares in recorded scientific history was strong enough to block radio communications on planet Earth.

Qualcomm has disclosed details about three high-severity security vulnerabilities that were exploited in limited, targeted attacks in October 2023.

Jalisco cartel members have scammed at least 600 Americans out of about $40 million, officials said. The Mexican drug cartel was so bold in operating frauds that target elderly Americans that the gang's operators posed as U.S. Treasury Department officials, U.S. authorities said.

A ransomware infection at a cloud IT provider has disrupted services for 60 or so credit unions across the U.S., all of which were relying on the attacked vendor, according to the National Credit Union Administration. It is believed the cloud provider was infiltrated via the Citrix Bleed vulnerability.

The US unveils rules aimed at keeping Chinese components out of electric cars sold in the country. Chinese firms currently produce the vast majority of electric car batteries and the minerals used in them. But U.S. politicians have cast over-reliance on Chinese manufacturers as an economic and security risk.

The White House says Nippon Steel's plan to buy US Steel should be probed on national security grounds, even though Japan is a "close ally.” It also expressed concern about the deal's potential impact on supply chain reliability.