Category: Cyber warfare

October 15, 2021

The attacks target organizations across multiple sectors in Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, Europe, and more, and have seen low detection rates in Google’s VirusTotal scanning engine. Dubbed MirrorBlast, the campaign started in early September, following similar activity in […]

October 14, 2021

The United States has convened some 30 countries — with the notable exception of Russia — to boost cooperation in fighting the costly and disruptive attacks that have boomed around the world. As if on cue, Yigal Unna, director of […]

October 8, 2021

Russia accounted for a majority (58%) of state-sponsored cybercrime attacks detected by Microsoft’s cybersecurity experts over the past year, mostly targeting government agencies and think tanks in the US, the company has claimed. The insights come from Microsoft’s annual Digital […]

October 6, 2021

Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive information about critical assets, organizations’ infrastructure, and technology while remaining in the dark […]

September 30, 2021

Arctic Wolf published findings from a recent global survey of over 1,400 IT decision-makers at enterprise organizations. After a year of high-profile cyberattacks, the survey data reveals executive attitudes on a wide array of cybersecurity and business issues. Private sector […]

September 16, 2021

The same week that infamous cyber criminal gang REvil re-emerged from the depths of the dark web with a new ransomware variant, U.S. officials say that not much has changed when it comes to ransomware and Russia. President Biden spoke […]

September 9, 2021

Two decades ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Afghanistan as retribution for the 9/11 terrorist attacks carried out by the al-Qaeda terror group. The Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, was forced out of government. Now, 20 years […]

September 7, 2021

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Andrea Sasse said that a hacker outfit called Ghostwriter has been “combining conventional cyberattacks with disinformation and influence operations,” and that activities targeting Germany have been observed “for some time.” She said that, ahead of Germany’s parliamentary […]

September 3, 2021

Norway has linked a series of cyber attacks against state and private IT infrastructure in 2018 to “bad actors” operating from China. Based on technical and other evidence gathered by its central intelligence agencies, the Norwegian government blamed bad actors […]

August 10, 2021

A Chinese cyber espionage group has been linked to a string of intrusion activities targeting Israeli government institutions, IT providers, and telecommunications companies at least since 2019. FireEye’s Mandiant threat intelligence arm attributed the campaign to an operator it tracks […]