Category: Cyber warfare

December 1, 2023

Meta and Google have disclosed what they allege are offensive cyber ops conducted by China. The Social Network™ used its Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report [PDF], published Thursday, to report it booted 4,789 Facebook accounts for violating its policy against coordinated […]

November 17, 2023

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has raised concerns about Chinese government-backed hackers embedding themselves within U.S. critical infrastructure networks, posing a significant threat to the nation’s security and economic stability. These hackers, operating under the moniker “Volt Typhoon,” […]

November 14, 2023

US-based research group IPVM has accused Chinese video surveillance equipment company Hikvision of engaging with a contract to develop technology that can identify Muslim students that are fasting during Ramadan, based on their dining records. Hikvision used its LinkedIn page […]

November 9, 2023

Blackouts in Ukraine last year were not just caused by missile strikes on the nation but also by a seemingly coordinated cyberattack on one of its power plants. That’s according to Mandiant’s threat intel team, which said Russia’s Sandworm crew […]

November 8, 2023

The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has taken decisive action against Ekaterina Zhdanova, a Russian national, for her significant role in laundering and transferring funds using virtual currency on behalf of Russian elites and ransomware […]

November 3, 2023

Iran-linked APT group MuddyWater (aka SeedWorm, TEMP.Zagros, and Static Kitten) is targeting Israeli entities in a new spear-phishing campaign, Deep Instinct’s Threat Research team reported. The phishing messages were aimed at deploying a legitimate remote administration tool called Advanced Monitoring […]

November 3, 2023

The Russian intelligence agency Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested two individuals who are suspected of supporting Ukrainian entities to carry out cyberattacks to disrupt Russian critical infrastructure. The two men are facing high treason charges and could be sentenced to […]

November 1, 2023

During a forensics investigation, Security Joes Incident Response team discovered a new Linux Wiper malware they tracked as BiBi-Linux Wiper. Pro-Hamas hacktivist group used the wiper to destroy the infrastructure of Israeli companies. The researchers noticed that the malware is […]

October 27, 2023

The French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group has been targeting multiple French organizations, including government entities, businesses, universities, and research institutes and […]

October 19, 2023

North Korea has somehow managed to not only get its hands on AI, but also be the first nation to be publicly confirmed by the US to be using AI in cyber warfare, new reports have claimed. North Korea is […]

October 10, 2023

A previously undetected cyberespionage group spied against Taiwanese government agencies and the island-country’s manufacturing sector, say cybersecurity researchers. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team doesn’t attribute the threat group to any particular country, other than noting it likely operates “from a […]

September 28, 2023

Chinese snoops stole about 60,000 State Department emails when they broke into Microsoft-hosted Outlook and Exchange Online accounts belonging to US government officials over the summer. “No classified systems were hacked,” said State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller during a press […]

September 26, 2023

The Ukrainian State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) has claimed that Russian cyberspies are targeting its servers looking for data about alleged Kremlin-backed war crimes. According to the analysis, which covers Russia’s evolving cyber tactics during the […]

September 20, 2023

The International Criminal Court said crooks breached its IT systems last week, and that attack isn’t over yet, with the ICC saying the “cybersecurity incident” is still ongoing. In a statement shared via the site formerly known as Twitter, the […]

September 5, 2023

Meta has disclosed that it disrupted two of the largest known covert influence operations in the world from China and Russia, blocking thousands of accounts and pages across its platform. “It targeted more than 50 apps, including Facebook, Instagram, X […]

August 29, 2023

A suspected Chinese-nexus hacking group exploited a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to breach government, military, defense and aerospace, high-tech industry, and telecom sectors as part of a global espionage campaign. Mandiant, which […]

August 25, 2023

A nation-state activity group originating from China has been linked to cyber attacks on dozens of organizations in Taiwan as part of a suspected espionage campaign. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team is tracking the activity under the name Flax Typhoon, […]

July 10, 2023

The threat actors behind the RomCom RAT have been suspected of phishing attacks targeting the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius as well as an identified organization supporting Ukraine abroad. The findings come from the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team, […]

June 15, 2023

The Russian threat actor known as Shuckworm has continued its cyber assault spree against Ukrainian entities in a bid to steal sensitive information from compromised environments. Targets of the recent intrusions, which began in February/March 2023, include security services, military, […]

June 2, 2023

U.S. and South Korean intelligence agencies have issued a new alert warning of North Korean cyber actors’ use of social engineering tactics to strike think tanks, academia, and news media sectors. The “sustained information gathering efforts” have been attributed to […]