Phantom Taurus: New China-Linked Hacker Group Hits Governments With Stealth Malware

Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned nation-state actor dubbed Phantom Taurus over the past two-and-a-half years. "Phantom Taurus' main focus areas include ministries of forei...

Surges in Cyber Activity Accompany Regional Military Operations

Geopolitical events and military operations often trigger a cascade of online activity, both legitimate and malicious. Recent data from our global threat network highlights the strong connection between military escalations and cyberattacks, with the latest example unfolding in the Middle East...

Inside Operation Diplomatic Specter: Chinese APT Group's Stealthy Tactics Exposed

Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat APT group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Diplomatic Specter since at least late 2022. "An analysis of this threat actor's activity reveals long-term...

Cyberattacks Rage in Ukraine, Support Military Operations

Cyberattacks against Ukraine have been used strategically to support ground campaigns, with five state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT groups behind attacks that began in February. According to research published by Microsoft on Wednesday, the APTs involved in the campaigns are...

DoD Cloud Computing Impact Levels 4-5

Moving past DoD Impact Level 2 IL2, the logical next step should be IL3; however, IL3 is no longer used by the Department of Defense DoD and has been consolidated into IL4. DoD IL4 is designed to store, process, and transmit up to controlled unclassified information CUI related to military or...

WikiLeaks Promises to Publish Leaks on US Election, Arms Trade and Google

Wikileaks completed its 10 years today, and within this timespan, the whistleblower site has published over 10 million documents, and there’s more to come. In the name of celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Wikileaks promises to leak documents pertaining to Google, United States presidential...

HARMAN AMX Deliberate Backdoor SEC Consult

AMX, a provider of audio-visual conferencing gear used in sensitive government and military locations, has removed a “deliberate” backdoor in one of its central controller system products. New firmware for the AMX NX-1200 was made available Thursday, removing an administrative account that was...

DARPA Seeks Revolution, Not Evolution, in Cyberspace Capabilities

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, the avant-garde research and development arm of the Department of Defense – perhaps best known for its central role in the development of the Internet – is soliciting research proposals that would help the military improve its cyber battlespace...

Report: Iran Claims To Have Hacked, Then Hijacked Stealth Drone

A report on the Web site of the Christian Science Monitor claims that Iran exploited a long-known vulnerability in the GPS navigation system of the U.S.’s RQ-170 Sentinel drone to force it into landing safely within Iran. The report, Thursday, cites an Iranian engineer that is part of a team that...