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Image: pinkeyes/Adobe Stock Microsoft’s warning on Wednesday that the China-sponsored actor Volt Typhoon attacked U.S. infrastructure put a hard emphasis on presentations by cybersecurity and international affairs experts that a global war in cyberspace is pitting authoritarian regimes against democracies. Jump to: China’s commitment to cyberwarfare Microsoft’s notification pointed out . . . Read more
Image: Golden Sikorka/Adobe Stock The pro-Russia hacker group NoName057(16) reportedly claimed it was behind Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the Finnish parliament’s website on Tuesday, the day the country joined NATO. The country’s Technical Research Centre of Finland was also hacked, according to Finnish news site, YLE. NoName057(16) is . . . Read more
The Russian Federal Security Bureau has just published a report about the investigation and arrest of the infamous “REvil” ransomware crew.
The widespread compromise affecting key government agencies is ongoing, according to the U.S. government. The U.S. government has identified Russia as the “likely” culprit behind the widespread SolarWinds cyberattack that has so far affected multiple federal agencies and private-sector companies. Cyberespionage is cited as the motivation behind the attack, which . . . Read more
The attack was mounted via SolarWinds Orion, in a manual and targeted supply-chain effort. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), plus the Treasury and Commerce departments, have been hacked in an attack related to the FireEye compromise last week, according to reports. In addition, defense contractors and enterprises were . . . Read more
Three major APTs are involved in ongoing compromises at pharma and clinical organizations involved in COVID-19 research, Microsoft says. Three nation-state cyberattack groups are actively attempting to hack companies involved in COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research. Russia’s APT28 Fancy Bear, the Lazarus Group from North Korea and another North Korea-linked . . . Read more
Cyber-researchers weigh in on what concerns them the most as the U.S. heads into the final weekend before the presidential election — and they also highlight the positives. What keeps researchers up at night leading up to Nov. 3 isn’t election-day winners and losers. Most cite possible attacks on local . . . Read more
Turla has outfitted a trio of backdoors with new C2 tricks and increased interop, as seen in an attack on a European government.
Dr. Reddy’s, the contractor for Russia’s “Sputinik V” COVID-19 vaccine and a major generics producer, has had to close plants and isolate its data centers.
Messages that threaten people to ‘vote for Trump or else’ are part of foreign adversaries’ attempts to interfere with the Nov. 3 election, according to feds. Federal officials claim that Iranian threat actors are behind two separate email campaigns that assailed Democratic voters this week with threats to “vote for Trump . . . Read more