"It could have just been a group or individuals looking to get some street cred to tout on underground forums," said Austin Berglas, a former assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's New York office cyber branch, who is not involved in any government investigation of the incident.
Russian government hackers last year breached the Treasury and Commerce departments, along with other U.S. government agencies, as part of a global espionage campaign, and Chinese government hackers are believed to have compromised dozens of U.S. government agencies.
China's next generation of hackers won't be criminals. That's a problem. – TechCrunch
The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics.
Along similar lines, in 2017, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China announced an award for World-Class Cybersecurity Schools ; a program that currently certifies eleven schools in the same way some U.S.
North Korean Hackers Target Cybersecurity Researchers with Trojanized IDA Pro
Lazarus, the North Korea-affiliated state-sponsored group, is attempting to once again target security researchers with backdoors and remote access trojans using a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software.
The findings were reported by ESET security researcher Anton Cherepanov last week in a series of tweets.
Facebook Papers: Chinese state-linked hackers targeting Cambodian opposition — Radio Free
A hacker collective with suspected ties to Chinese intelligence has engaged in “consistent and long-term targeting” of officials from the Cambodia National Rescue Party, an internal investigation by Facebook found.
A report on the investigation was posted to Facebook’s internal social network on April 1, according to disclosures made to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to the U.S. Congress in redacted form by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s legal counsel.
Palo Alto Networks: Chinese hackers may have targeted Zoho, says US cyber security firm - The
Hackers Target Newfoundland's Health Care System - The New York Times
For many months now, the residents of Newfoundland and Labrador have had to put up with canceled or delayed medical procedures and appointments. For a long time — like people in the rest of Canada, and around the world — their predicament was due to the pandemic.
But lately, the trouble has come from a new source — a catastrophic cyberattack. The system ground to a halt on Oct. 30.
How Russian Hackers Helped Expose the Right-Wing Dark Money Corrupting Our Courts
This scheme delivers results. The Roberts Court has issued more than 80 partisan decisions delivering clear wins to big Republican donor interests.
The 80-to-zero record isn't easily rectified, but there are steps that the court and judiciary could take to heal itself. Greater transparency can ensure that groups like the NRA can't leverage their wealth to mislead judges and the public.
Hackers try to obtain passwords for email accounts of Taiwan government staff | Taiwan News |
During October, there were 50,545 threats by hackers directed at Taiwan government users, with 45% consisting of attacks against websites and 25% scanning techniques to collect computer network information.
Moses Staff hackers wreak havoc on Israeli orgs with ransomless encryptions
A new hacker group named Moses Staff has recently claimed responsibility for numerous attacks against Israeli entities, which appear politically motivated as they do not make any ransom payment demands.
The threat actors have repeatedly caused damage to Israeli systems in the past couple of months, infiltrating networks and encrypting files, and then leaking the stolen copies to the public.
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FBI says hackers got no data after compromising email server https://t.co/Fo4r7Zp5TO https://t.co/KsGhq2GUMH Reuters (from Around the world) Sun Nov 14 23:25:09 +0000 2021
FBI says hackers got no data after compromising email server https://t.co/YAKdkEYL4a https://t.co/5U0qK6P5R0 Reuters (from Around the world) Sun Nov 14 20:20:08 +0000 2021
FBI Email Server Hacked, Thousands Of Spam Emails Said To Be Sent Out https://t.co/XYFsDzZ5Ux Forbes (from New York, NY) Sun Nov 14 11:08:31 +0000 2021
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