Tag: APTs/cyberespionage

Former federal CIO: Efforts to ban Huawei ‘don’t make any sense to me’

Cyber Security March 9, 2020

Recent U.S. efforts to ban the federal use of telecommunications equipment from Huawei Technologies and other Chinese companies are “malaligned” and “don’t make...

Trump berated Maguire after lawmakers were briefed on Russia’s active interference in 2020 election

Cyber Security February 20, 2020

Stone gets 40 months and a rebuke from judge for lying to Congress

Cyber Security February 20, 2020

Trump offered Assange pardon to deny Russia behind DNC hack, lawyer tells court

Cyber Security February 19, 2020

Fox Kitten APT campaign exploits VPN flaws hours after public disclosure

Cyber SecurityFebruary 18, 2020

Iranian APT actors have engaged in a long-running cyber espionage and data theft campaign that has victimized dozens of companies around the...

Justice Dept. to reduce sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone

Cyber SecurityFebruary 11, 2020

Just a day after prosecutors recommended Trump confidante Roger Stone get a seven-to-nine-year sentence for charges stemming from Robert Mueller’s Russian probe, the Justice...

Obama admin not ‘well-postured,’ hampered by partisan politics in response to Russian election interference

Cyber SecurityFebruary 8, 2020

If there’s a lesson to be learned from partisanship, it’s that it can thwart government’s efforts to get to the bottom of and respond...

Report: United Nations withheld news of systems hack in European offices

Cyber SecurityJanuary 30, 2020

Officials at the United Nations reportedly discovered last August that hackers had compromised its IT systems in Geneva and Vienna last summer,...

U.K. will allow Huawei limited role in 5G network

Cyber SecurityJanuary 28, 2020

Breaking with the U.S. stance on Huawei, the U.K. will let the company participate in building its 5G network but said it would put...

Bezos iPhone compromised by Saudi prince, report finds

Cyber SecurityJanuary 22, 2020

An iPhone belonging to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos likely was hacked by Saudi Arabian prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) or operatives working on his...

Mitsubishi Electric discloses June 2019 breach; Tick hacking group reportedly blamed

Cyber SecurityJanuary 21, 2020

Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric has acknowledged its discovery last June of a data breach perpetrated by an unauthorized third party that accessed...

Report: FBI issues alert after two municipalities hacked via SharePoint

Cyber SecurityJanuary 17, 2020

The FBI this month reportedly issued an alert to its private industry partners, warning that a probable nation-state hacking group had recently...

APT40 hacking group linked to 13 alleged front companies in Hainan, China

Cyber SecurityJanuary 15, 2020

The mysterious research group Intrusion Truth has unleashed a new series of reports claiming that 13 businesses based in the southern island province...

Russia’s Fancy Bear successfully hacked Burisma during impeachment probe

Cyber SecurityJanuary 14, 2020

As the House Intelligence Committee held impeachment hearings last fall, members of the Russian GRU, known as Fancy Bear, successfully hacked Burisma, the Ukrainian energy...