Former President Trump and his son Barron Trump attend the funeral of former first lady Melania Trump's mother Amalija Knavs in Palm Beach, Florida, in January. Photo: Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images
Barron Trump, former President Trump's youngest child, was selected as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention, according to a list released Wednesday.
Why it matters: The presumptive Republican presidential nominee and former first lady Melania Trump had largely kept their 18-year-old son out of the spotlight during their time in the White House.
The investigation is still ongoing, so new revelations may come up. But this also may turn out to be a non-event. .
Security researcher Kevin Beaumont has pointed out that the “IntelBroker” alias is used by multiple people and they are not an entirely reliable source of information.
The relatively low price asking price has also made many doubt their claims.
Zscaler swats claims of a significant breach
On Wednesday, a threat actor named “InteIBroker” put up for sale “access to one of the largest cyber security companies” and immediately ignited speculation about which company it might be.
Update 5/8/24: Out original article was updated to include new information about a breached "test" environment.
Zscaler says that they discovered an exposed "test environment" that was taken offline for analysis after rumors circulated that a threat actor was selling access to the company's systems. In a Wednesday afternoon post, Zscaler initially stated that its ongoing investigation showed no evidence that its customer or production environments were breached.
"Zscaler’s priority is our customer and production environment and we have not discovered any evidence of incident or compromise to these environments. We are continuing our investigation and closely monitoring the situation,"reads a post on Zscaler's Trust site.
A Zscaler employee also shared on Mastodon that the company investigated the rumors and that they are "completely inaccurate and unfounded."
However, in an evening update, Zscaler confirmed that they discovered an "isolated test environment" exposed to the internet, which they took offline for forensic analysis. "Our investigation discovered an isolated test environment on a single server (without any customer data) which was exposed to the internet,"confirmed Zscaler in an evening update. "The test environment was not hosted on Zscaler infrastructure and had no connectivity to Zscaler’s environments. The test environment was taken offline for forensic analysis."
Zscaler says that no company, customer, or production environments were impacted by the incident. The rumors started after a well-known threat actor named IntelBroker began selling what they claim is access to a cybersecurity company with a revenue of $1.8 billion.
IntelBroker's forum post on Breached Forums Source: BleepingComputer
This access allegedly includes "Confidential and highly critical logs packed with credentials, SMTP Access, PAuth Pointer Auth Access, SSL Passkeys & SSL Certificates." While IntelBroker did not share the name of the company, a screenshot shared with BleepingComputer by digital forensics student James, shows the threat actor claiming it was Zscaler in the Breach Forums shoutbox. Furthermore, as Zscaler is listed on ZoomInfo with a revenue of $1.8 billion, others tied the forum post to the company, stating they were the ones who were breached. IntelBroker rose to notoriety after breaching DC Health Link, which led to a congressional hearing after the attack exposed the personal data of U.S. House of Representatives members and staff. Since then, IntelBroker has been responsible for numerous other breaches, including ones on Acuity, Home Depot, and Weee!. IntelBroker also claimed to have hacked Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in February, which the company initially denied but later told BleepingComputer that a test environment was breached. BleepingComputer contacted Zscaler to learn more about their investigation and these claims but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
