John Demers, pictured in October 2020, announced indictments against three North Korean hackers for a series of worldwide cyberattacks. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images hide caption
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The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against three North Korean hackers for allegedly conducting a series of destructive cyberattacks, computer-enabled bank thefts and cryptocurrency heists around the world.
Prosecutors say the defendants — Jon Chang Hyok, Kim Il and Park Jin Hyok — are members of North Korea's military intelligence agency known as the Reconnaissance General Bureau. They face charges of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud.
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Suspected Russian Hackers Used US Networks, Official Says | Data Center Knowledge
Alyza Sebenius and Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg) -- A sprawling cyber-attack that compromised popular software created by Texas-based SolarWinds Corp. was executed from within the U.S., a top White House official said, though the government believes Russia was responsible.
The federal investigation of the hack will take several months, Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger said in a briefing for reporters on Wednesday.
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She said the government believes it's still at the "beginning stages" of understanding the scope and scale of the attack, which was publicly disclosed in December but was likely executed months earlier. "The hackers launched the hack from inside the United States which further made it difficult for the U.S. government to observe their activity," she said.
Virtual conference hosted by Utah colleges disrupted by hackers
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah — Online hackers hijacked a virtual conference co-hosted by Salt Lake Community College and University of Utah.
Four hours into the nation-wide virtual Transformative Justice and Abolition Criminology Conference, hackers posted five minutes of disturbing videos, traumatizing dozens of participants.
"They are taking us to the point where we are being terrified by the things they are doing. Not only do we not feel safe, but we have to wonder if the people know who we are and we don't know who they are," Lee said.
North Korean hackers tried to steal Pfizer vaccine know-how, lawmaker says | Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's intelligence agency has said North Korea attempted to steal information on coronavirus vaccines and treatments by hacking Pfizer Inc, a lawmaker briefed by the agency said on Tuesday.
Ha Tae-keung, an opposition member of the parliamentary intelligence panel, said the pharmaceutical giant was among those hacked in the bid to steal information on vaccines and treatments.
"There were attempts to steal COVID vaccine and treatment technology during cyber attacks and Pfizer was hacked," he said.
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Incomplete fixes for security flaws make hackers' job easy, Google says
Research from Google shows that hackers can quickly find security flaws in previously patched bugs. Maddie Stone, a security researcher at Google, said that bugs are often only partially fixed allowing for previously undetected flaws, known as zero-day vulnerabilities, to be exploited repeatedly, reports MIT Technology Review .
Ms. Stone is part of a security team known as Project Zero, which has tracked more than 150 zero-day bugs over the past six years. According to Ms. Stone, security teams often fix software vulnerabilities incompletely, and hackers can get back in by changing a few lines of code or adding a few tweaks.
Wawa would pay customers up to $9 million for hackers exposing credit card info, proposed
The Cybersecurity 202: Investigations into Russian, North Korean hackers are shaping Biden's
The Biden administration is plunging ahead in a pair of high-profile cybersecurity investigations into North Korean and Russian hackers, shedding light on how it plans to crack down on foreign hackers after the Trump administration downplayed the issue in the 2016 election and its aftermath.
The Biden administration yesterday elaborated on its ongoing investigation into a massive Russian hack of at least nine government agencies and about 100 companies tied to the SolarWinds breach.
Nigerian Influencer Ramon 'Hushpuppi' Abbas Laundered Funds For North Korean Hackers, Says U.S.
According to a statement released by the Justice Department, Abbas took part in a "North Korean-perpetrated cyber-enabled heist from a Maltese bank in February 2019." In a July statement, the Justice Department referred to the attack as "a $14.7 million cyber-heist from a foreign financial institution." Both the date and amount match that of the attack on Malta's Bank of Valletta in February 2019.
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The Bank of Valletta confirmed to Forbes that it was the target of a cyber incident in February ... [+] 2019.
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