The New York Times notes that many of the targeted groups are the types that have been critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But a White House National Security Council official doubted that the hackers had very much success.
Microsoft said in a separate blog post that the campaign is ongoing and evolved out of several waves of spear-phishing campaigns it first detected in January that escalated to the mass-mailings of this week.
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In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack, the group behind it, DarkSide, went dark, disappearing from the world along with the websites attributable to them. No one seems to know what happened to DarkSide, but federal officials focused on cybersecurity and counterintelligence say the group could be back another day under a new hacking umbrella — maybe already is — and one lesson from the recent national security threat is that some of the biggest geopolitical rivals of the U.S.
He said that is also a reason to believe that DarkSide could be back, or is still operating under a new name.
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Hackers operating fake accounts on Facebook have improved their tactics to attack users on the platform, with the U.S. being the most targeted country between 2017 and 2020, according to a Facebook report.
The U.S. also topped the list of the most targeted nations for domestic hacking operations, followed by Ukraine and Brazil. Facebook has taken down more than 150 malicious networks since 2017, it said in the report titled 'The State of Influence Operations 2017-2020'.
Chinese hackers are attacking Uyghurs by posing as UN Human Rights Council | MIT Technology Review
Chinese-speaking hackers are masquerading as the United Nations in ongoing cyber-attacks against Uyghurs, according to the cybersecurity firms Check Point and Kaspersky.
"We believe that these cyber-attacks are motivated by espionage, with the endgame of the operation being the installation of a back door into the computers of high-profile targets in the Uyghur community," said Lotem Finkelstein, head of threat intelligence at Check Point, in a statement. "The attacks are designed to fingerprint infected devices, including all of [their] running programs.
New Zealand: Health system hackers release information to media | News | DW | 26.05.2021
A group that hacked Waikato's health system has apparently released private records, documents, and information to media outlets. The media chose not to publish the information, referring the case to the police.
A group claiming responsibility for the Waikato District Health Board cyber attack has released private patient information, New Zealand media reported on Wednesday.
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Russians behind SolarWinds hack have escalated attacks on US federal agencies, think tanks and NGOs. One trick the… https://t.co/7EyZSuo7be JenniferJJacobs (from Washington, DC) Fri May 28 10:23:02 +0000 2021
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