Geopolitical Aggression Trigger Digital Sabotage on Critical Infrastructure

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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2024

From Elon Musk and Donald Trump to state-sponsored hackers and crypto scammers, this was the year the online agents of chaos gained ground...

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 04 - Nov 10)

⚠️ Imagine this: the very tools you trust to protect you online—your two-factor authentication, your car's tech system, even your security software—turned into silent allies for hackers. Sounds like a scene from a thriller, right? Yet, in 2024, this isn't fiction; it's the new cyber reality...

Chinese Hackers Targeted Dozens of Industrial Enterprises and Public Institutions

Over a dozen military-industrial complex enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe have come under a wave of targeted attacks since January 2022 to steal confidential data by simultaneously making use of six different backdoors. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed...

Follina Exploited by State-Sponsored Hackers

Researchers have added state-sponsored hackers to the list of adversaries attempting to exploit Microsoft’s now-patched Follina vulnerability. According to researchers at Proofpoint, state-sponsored hackers have attempted to abuse the Follina vulnerability in Microsoft Office, aiming an email-bas...

EFB Tampering 2. Device Integrity

TL;DR Electronic Flight Bag EFB integrity varies between different airlines and devices Aviation cyber security is becoming increasingly prominent with regulators EFBs often connect to unsecure networks including public Wi-Fi Security measures are not always effective and can be inconsistent Devi...

Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs

President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs no relation. The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly claims was stolen by widespread voting fraud. Chris Krebs. Image: CISA. Krebs, 43, is a former Microsof...

US Government Warns of a New Strain of Chinese 'Taidoor' Virus

Intelligence agencies in the US have released information about a new variant of 12-year-old computer virus used by China's state-sponsored hackers targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks. Named "Taidoor," the malware has done an 'excellent' job of compromising systems as early as...

Google Sees State-Sponsored Hackers Ramping Up Coronavirus Attacks

More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report...

Chinese Hackers Compromise Telecom Servers to Spy on SMS Messages

A group of Chinese hackers carrying out political espionage for Beijing has been found targeting telecommunications companies with a new piece of malware designed to spy on text messages sent or received by highly targeted individuals. Dubbed "MessageTap ," the backdoor malware is a 64-bit ELF da...

Russian Hackers Targeting Anti-Doping Agencies Ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics

As Japan gears up for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the next year, the country needs to brace itself for sophisticated cyberattacks, especially from state-sponsored hackers. Microsoft has issued a short notice, warning about a new wave of highly targeted cyberattacks by a group o...

Leaked NSA Dump Also Contains Tools Agency Used to Track Other Hackers

A years ago when the mysterious hacking group 'The Shadow Brokers' dumped a massive trove of sensitive data stolen from the US intelligence agency NSA, everyone started looking for secret hacking tools and zero-day exploits. A group of Hungarian security researchers from CrySyS Lab and Ukatemi ha...

Yahoo Tells SEC Executives Failed to Act on Breach

Yahoo’s quarterly SEC filings have been the only window into the massive data breaches that have exposed more than 1.5 billion records in the past four years. This week, Yahoo’s Q4 2016 filing was made public, and the view got uglier. The company admitted to the SEC and its investors that its...

500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers

Yahoo says it was the victim of state-sponsored hackers who stole information associated with 500 million accounts. Yahoo CISO Bob Lord said the attack happened on the company’s network in late 2014; he did not name the country responsible. “The account information may have included names, email...

Microsoft will Inform You If Government is Spying on You

Following in the footsteps of Twitter, Facebook and Google, Microsoft promises to notify users of its e-mail Outlook and cloud storage OneDrive services if government hackers may have targeted their accounts. The company already notifies users if an unauthorized person tries to access their Outlo...

Michael Chertoff Risk Management ACSC Keynote

BOSTON – Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff gave enterprises a pep talk Wednesday during his keynote address at the Advanced Cyber Security Center’s annual conference. In a climate where massive financial services organizations such as JP Morgan Chase have been breached, the Whit...

Bugzilla Vulnerability Exposes Bug Collections

Hundreds of open source software projects that make use of Bugzilla, Mozilla’s bug-tracking software, anxiously await a patch for a vulnerability that exposes private bugs collected by the system. Mozilla is today expected to make available a patch for the vulnerability in its account creation...

China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan Wi-Fi devices to serve malware

We have discussed many times in our stories the network of Intelligent devices, their capabilities and the possibilities that cyber criminals could exploit them for illegal activities. Hidden chips are used by cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers to infiltrate company networks and...

U.S. Department of Defense Officials are potential target of cyber espionage via social networking sites

In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be...

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends An online scam has been exposed in which senior British military and government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander and lead officer ...