Truth Social Crashes as Trump Live-Posts Iran Bombing

The social network started experiencing global outages within minutes of Donald Trump posting details of a US military strike on Iran...

$10 Infostealers Are Breaching Critical US Security: Military and Even the FBI Hit

A new report reveals how cheap Infostealer malware is exposing US military and defense data, putting national security at risk. Hackers exploit human error to gain access...

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel

The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient...

This Video Game Controller Has Become the US Military’s Weapon of Choice

After decades of relying on buttons, switches, and toggles, the Pentagon has embraced simple, ergonomic video-game-style controllers already familiar to millions of potential recruits...

AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream

The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces...

A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask

As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods...

HiatusRAT Malware Resurfaces: Taiwan Firms and U.S. Military Under Attack

The threat actors behind the HiatusRAT malware have returned from their hiatus with a new wave of reconnaissance and targeting activity aimed at Taiwan-based organizations and a U.S. military procurement system. Besides recompiling malware samples for different architectures, the artifacts are sa...

STARK#MULE Targets South Korea with US Military-themed Baits

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The STARKMULE cyber attack campaign is ongoing, with a focus on targeting Korean-speaking individuals. It employs U.S. Military-themed document baits to deceive its targets, leading them into unwittingly...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

Highlights from the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy

The Biden administration today issued its vision for beefing up the nations collective cybersecurity posture, including calls for legislation establishing liability for software products and services that are sold with little regard for security. The White Houses new national cybersecurity strate...

Security News This Week: Sensitive US Military Emails Exposed

Plus: Iran’s secret torture black sites, hacking a bank account with AI-generated voice, and Lance Bass’ unhinged encounter in Russia...

Hack the Pentagon 3.0: Groundbreaking Bug Bounty Program Is Back

By Habiba Rashid The US military seeks public help in securing its critical cyber infrastructure with "Hack the Pentagon 3.0" bug bounty program. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hack the Pentagon 3.0: Groundbreaking Bug Bounty Program Is Back...

US Military Ties Prolific MuddyWater Cyberespionage APT to Iran

U.S. Cyber Command has confirmed that MuddyWater – an advanced persistent threat APT cyberespionage actor aka Mercury, Static Kitten, TEMP.Zagros or Seedworm that’s historically targeted government victims in the Middle East – is an Iranian intelligence outfit. The link has been suspected, and no...

US Military’s Hacking Unit to take on ransomware gangs

By ghostadmin The Units boss Gen. Paul Nakasone said that the US military computer operatives are ready to target ransomware gangs and state actors, whoever poses a threat to critical US infrastructure. The US militarys hacking division called Cyber Command is taking aggressive steps to fight...

Office 365 Spy Campaign Targets US Military Defense

A new threat actor, dubbed DEV-0343, has been spotted attacking U.S. and Israeli defense technology companies, Persian Gulf ports of entry and global maritime transportation companies with ties to the Middle East. The threat actor’s goal is Microsoft Office 365 account takeovers. Microsoft, which...

Ex-army admin jailed for 12 years over US military health data theft

By Deeba Ahmed Frederick Brown, a medical data technician & admin associated with the 65th Medical Brigade of the US Army caused millions of dollars in losses. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ex-army admin jailed for 12 years over US military health data theft...

US military personnel defrauded into losing $822m through scams

By Waqas According to researchers, US military personnel lost over $822 million in different kinds of cybercrime and scams between 2017 and 30 June 2021. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US military personnel defrauded into losing $822m through scams...

Facebook Catches Iranian Spies Catfishing US Military Targets

The hackers posed as recruiters, journalists, and hospitality workers to lure their victims...

Facebook Ad Services Let Anyone Target US Military Personnel

Researchers warn that an advertising platform with categories like “Army” and “United States Air Force Security Forces” could be abused...

The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed...