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Justice Department Indicts 12 Russian Nationals Tied to 2016 Election Hacking
The United States Justice Department on Friday announced 12 indictments against Russian nationals, accusing them of engaging in a “sustained effort” to hack Democrats’ emails and computer networks. According to Rod Rosenstein, United States deputy Attorney General, all 12 defendants are members o...
A Slice of 2017 Sofacy Activity
Sofacy, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Tsar Team, is a highly active and prolific APT. From their high volume 0day deployment to their innovative and broad malware set, Sofacy is one of the top groups that we monitor, report, and protect against. 2017 was not any different in this regard. O...
January, 2 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Rose Bowl” Edition
Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 2, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Bitcoin concerns rising a...
US Identifies 6 Russian Government Officials Involved In DNC Hack
The United States Department of Justice has reportedly gathered enough evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials for allegedly playing a role in hacking DNC systems and leaking information during the 2016 presidential race. Earlier this year, US intelligence agencies concluded...
Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution
The New York Times this week published a fascinating story about a young programmer in Ukraine who'd turned himself in to the local police. The Times says the man did so after one of his software tools was identified by the U.S. government as part of the arsenal used by Russian hackers suspected ...
LinkedIn Hacker, Wanted by US & Russian, Can be Extradited to Either State
The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the Czech police in Prague last October on suspicion of massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, can be extradited to either the United States or Russia, a Czech court ruled on Tuesday. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, a 29-years-old Russian national, ...
Russian Hackers Made 'Tainted Leaks' a Thing — Phishing to Propaganda
We came across so many revelations of sensitive government and corporate data on the Internet these days, but what's the accuracy of that information leaked by unknown actors? Security researchers have discovered new evidence of one such sophisticated global espionage and disinformation campaign...
Trump Cyber Executive Order Calls for 60-Day Review
President Donald Trump cited the hack of the Democratic National Committee as a “good example” for the need of a stronger cyber security measures for both the private and public sector. “The Democratic National Committee was hacked successfully, very successfully, and terribly successfully,” Trum...
US Voting Systems Deemed Critical Infrastructure
The Department of Homeland Security has designated the U.S. voting infrastructure, including voting machines and registration databases, as critical infrastructure. On Friday, Secretary Jeh Johnson elevated the voting infrastructure to a critical infrastructure subsector under the existing...
FBI-DHS Report Links Fancy Bear Gang to Election Hacks
In a report released Thursday the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Homeland Security implicated Russian hacking group Fancy Bear in attacks against several election-related targets. According to the Joint Analysis Report, the hacking group Fancy Bear, believed to have ties...
Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls
The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...
Two US State Election Systems Hacked to Steal Voter Databases — FBI Warns
A group of unknown hackers or an individual hacker may have breached voter registration databases for election systems in at least two US states, according to the FBI, who found evidence during an investigation this month. Although any intrusion in the state voting system has not been reported, t...
Guccifer 2.0 Leaks Personal Info of Nearly 200 Congressional Democrats
The hacker, who recently claimed responsibility for the high-profile hack of Democratic National Committee DNC, has now taken credit for hacking into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee DCCC as well. To prove his claims, the hacker, going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0, dumped on Friday...
Misuse of Language: 'Cyber'
Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributors are Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter. The terms “cyber war” and “cyber weapon” are thrown around casually, often with little thought to their...
Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign also Hacked in Attack on Democratic Party
There's a lot more to come from the DNC Hack. The Associated Press confirmed yesterday that the computer systems used by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign were hacked as part of the recent Democratic National Convention DNC hack. Last week's email dump containing almost 20,000 emails from t...
Attributing Advanced Attacks Remains Challenge For Researchers
Amid the connections being made between the Russian government and the attack on the Democratic National Committee DNC, researchers on Tuesday reminded us of the challenges security experts have in correctly attributing advanced attacks. In a wide-ranging Reddit AMA, members of Kaspersky Lab’s...
Is Russia Behind the DNC Hack to Help Donald Trump? FBI Initiate an Investigation
On Friday, just three days prior to the start of the party's national convention, WikiLeaks released almost 20,000 e-mails with more than 8,000 stolen from the US Democratic National Committee DNC following a cyber attack in June. Two days later, on Sunday, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz...
Hillary Leaks Series: Wikileaks releases 20,000 DNC Emails
Today, whistleblowing website Wikileaks has finally published more than 19,000 e-mails, which contains more than 8,000 attachments from the US Democratic National Committee DNC. The new trove of documents apparently pilfered from the DMC released after Wikileaks yesterday announced via its offici...
DNC 2016 - Dangerous filesystem permissions, MIT license, WebView code execution vulnerabilities
HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application DNC 2016 published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...
