Google Sues China-Based Hackers Behind $1 Billion Lighthouse Phishing Platform

Google has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York SDNY against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platform called Lighthouse that has ensnared over 1 million users across 120 countries. The PhaaS kit is used to...

U.S. Cyber Safety Board Slams Microsoft Over Breach by China-Based Hackers

The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board CSRB has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year. The findings, released by the Department of Homeland...

How Microsoft's highly secure environment was breached

An investigation by Microsoft has finally revealed how China-based hackers circumvented the protections of a "highly isolated and restricted production environment" in May 2023 to unlock sensitive email accounts belonging to US government agencies. The attack was first reported by Microsoft in...

Microsoft Says Chinese Hackers Were Behind SolarWinds Serv-U SSH 0-Day Attack

Microsoft has shared technical details about a now-fixed, actively exploited critical security vulnerability affecting SolarWinds Serv-U managed file transfer service that it has attributed with "high confidence" to a threat actor operating out of China. In mid-July, the Texas-based company...

Israeli Defense Firms Hacked For 10-Month Span

Detailed schematics for a particular type of anti-ballistic missile, information about rockets, and pages upon pages of other mechanical documents were allegedly stolen from a trio of Israeli defense contractors between 2011 and 2012, it was revealed today. A Maryland-based threat intelligence fi...

Report Details Coca-Cola Cyber Attack That Never was Disclosed

In an exclusive report, Bloomberg News outlines a month-long, systematic attack on Cola-Cola’s computer systems that may have influenced the failed $2.4 billion acquisition of a Chinese juice company. The FBI knew about it. Coca-Cola knew about it. But shareholders were kept in the dark. The Coke...

Microsoft Confirms IE Zero-Day Used in Google Attack

Hackers linked to China used a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to compromise corporate systems at more than 30 U.S. companies, including Google, Adobe and Juniper Networks. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is still unpatched and can lead to remote code...