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Five Eyes Warns Chinese Spies Are Using Fake Job Ads to Target Military Staff
Five Eyes warns that Chinese spies are using fake job ads on LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork to target military staff and steal sensitive data...
Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan and US NGO with MgBot Malware
Organizations in Taiwan and a U.S. non-governmental organization NGO based in China have been targeted by a Beijing-affiliated state-sponsored hacking group called Daggerfly using an upgraded set of malware tools. The campaign is a sign that the group "also engages in internal espionage,"...
Five Eyes Alliance Accuses Chinese APT40 for Hacking Government Networks
Australia isnt alone! The Five Eyes US, UK, Canada, NZ along with Japan and South Korea join forces…...
Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack
The Police of Finland aka Poliisi has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early 2021. The agency described the...
Suspected Russian Data-Wiping 'AcidPour' Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices
A new variant of a data wiping malware called AcidRain has been detected in the wild that's specifically designed for targeting Linux x86 devices. The malware, dubbed AcidPour, is compiled for Linux x86 devices, SentinelOne's Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade said in a series of posts on X. "The new...
Five Eyes Agencies Warn of Active Exploitation of Ivanti Gateway Vulnerabilities
The Five Eyes FVEY intelligence alliance has issued a new cybersecurity advisory warning of cyber threat actors exploiting known security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways, noting that the Integrity Checker Tool ICT can be deceived to provide a false sense of...
Five Eyes Agencies Expose APT29's Evolving Cloud Attack Tactics
Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations have released a joint advisory detailing the evolving tactics of the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29. The hacking outfit, also known as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard formerly Nobelium, a...
Chinese Hackers Operate Undetected in U.S. Critical Infrastructure for Half a Decade
The U.S. government on Wednesday said the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Volt Typhoon had been embedded into some critical infrastructure networks in the country for at least five years. Targets of the threat actor include communications, energy, transportation, and water and...
Russian State-Backed 'Infamous Chisel' Android Malware Targets Ukrainian Military
Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. on Thursday disclosed details of a mobile malware strain targeting Android devices used by the Ukrainian military. The malicious software, dubbed Infamous Chisel and attributed to a Russian...
Major Cybersecurity Agencies Collaborate to Unveil 2022's Most Exploited Vulnerabilities
A four-year-old critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiOS SSL has emerged as one of the most routinely and frequently exploited vulnerabilities in 2022. "In 2022, malicious cyber actors exploited older software vulnerabilities more frequently than recently disclosed vulnerabilities and...
E.U. Blames Russia for Cyberattack on KA-SAT Satellite Network Operated by Viasat
The Five Eyes nations comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S., along with Ukraine and the European Union, formally pinned Russia for masterminding an attack on an international satellite communication...
Five Eyes Alliance Advisory & Using Threat Intelligence
Trellix Global Defenders: Five Eyes Alliance Advisory and Using Threat Intelligence to Protect Against Future Attacks By Taylor Mullins · May 6, 2022 Evolving intelligence continues to indicate that the Russian government is exploring options to launch cyberattacks in retaliation against...
Five Eyes Alliance Advisory & Using Threat Intelligence
Trellix Global Defenders: Five Eyes Alliance Advisory and Using Threat Intelligence to Protect Against Future Attacks By Taylor Mullins · May 6, 2022 Evolving intelligence continues to indicate that the Russian government is exploring options to launch cyberattacks in retaliation against...
Five Eyes Nations Warn of Russian Cyber Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure
The Five Eyes nations have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning of increased malicious attacks from Russian state-sponsored actors and criminal groups targeting critical infrastructure organizations amidst the ongoing military siege on Ukraine. "Evolving intelligence indicates that the...
More on the Five Eyes Statement on Encryption and Backdoors
Earlier this month, I wrote about a statement by the Five Eyes countries about encryption and back doors. Short summary: they like them. One of the weird things about the statement is that it was clearly written from a law-enforcement perspective, though we normally think of the Five Eyes as a...
Five-Eyes Intelligence Services Choose Surveillance Over Security
The Five Eyes -- the intelligence consortium of the rich English-speaking countries the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand -- have issued a "Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption" where they claim their needs for surveillance outweigh everyone's needs for securi...
Hack'em If You Can — U.S. Air Force launches Bug Bounty Program
With the growing number of data breaches and cyber attacks, a significant number of companies and organizations have started Bug Bounty programs for encouraging hackers and bug hunters to find and responsibly report vulnerabilities in their services and get rewarded. Now, following the success of...
Spy Agencies Hijack Google Play Store to Install Spyware on Smartphones
I have an Android phone with a five different gmail accounts configured in it. But what if any one of them get compromised via phishing, malware or any other way? The Hacker would be able to access my Google account and obviously Google Play Store account too, which allows anyone to install any...
Links Found between NSA, Regin Spy tool and QWERTY Keylogger
Researchers have uncovered a new evidence that a powerful computer program discovered last year, called "Regin", is "identical in functionality" to a piece of malware used by the National Security Agency NSA and its Five Eyes allies. REGIN MALWARE "Regin" is a highly advanced, sophisticated piec...
Connection Disclosed Between Regin, Five Eyes Malware Platform
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered shared code and functionality between the Regin malware platform and a similar platform described in a newly disclosed set of Edward Snowden documents 10 days ago by Germany’s Der Spiegel. The link, found in a keylogger called QWERTY allegedly used by...