Though the hack likely began in February, officials at the Department of Homeland Security responded to the breach in June to clean up the network of the civilian agency, the FBI and DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a public advisory .
The hackers exploited a widely known vulnerability that CISA sounded the alarm about in December 2021 and ordered agencies to address .
State-sponsored hackers in China compromise certificate authority | Ars Technica
Nation-state hackers based in China recently infected a certificate authority and several government and defense agencies with a potent malware cocktail for burrowing inside a network and stealing sensitive information, researchers said on Tuesday.
While the researchers who discovered the breach found no evidence the certificate infrastructure had been compromised, they said that this campaign was only the latest by a group they call Billbug, which has a documented history of noteworthy hacks dating back to at least 2009.
UGA: smart home hubs leave users vulnerable to hackers – WGAU
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But new research from the University of Georgia suggests that convenience potentially comes at a cost—your personal security.
That's important because the hubs theoretically make using the smart devices safer. In the past, cybercriminals have hacked into internet-connected baby monitors or smart cameras in people's homes, enabling them to monitor their target's comings and goings.
New Australian task force to "hack the hackers" | Security Magazine
O'Neil noted that there were compelling reasons to make it illegal for companies to "try to buy their way out of trouble" while praising Medibank's decision not to pay a $15 million ransom to prevent the release of user data.
"The idea that we're going to trust these people to delete data that they have taken off and may have copied a million times is just frankly silly," she told Insiders on Sunday.
Quantum computers in use today are vulnerable to eavesdropping hackers | New Scientist
Hackers could steal sensitive data from a quantum computer even if the information were carefully wiped, researchers have warned.
While quantum computers aren’t yet large or reliable enough to solve significant real-world problems, companies such as Amazon and Microsoft offer timeshare access to nascent machines.
Pro-Russian hackers claim cyber attack on FBI website: Report | Fox News
A group of pro-Russian hackers claimed to hack into the FBI website this week, the latest in a string of supposed attacks on U.S. government websites.
"The FBI is aware of yesterday's reporting and regularly monitors for cyber threats impacting FBI website availability," the agency said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "The FBI has no further comment at this time."
Why Russian Hackers Fell Down and Ran Away When Ukraine Put Up Even a Little Defense - Security ...
There's an old bogus saw in IT that goes something like attackers only need to be successful once yet defenders always have to succeed.
The reverse is actually well known and practiced often. Defenders benefit from efficiency that comes through "defense in depth". It's a pervasive practice that completely invalidates nonsense about attackers needing just one success.
North Korean hackers target European orgs with updated malware
North Korean hackers are using a new version of the DTrack backdoor to attack organizations in Europe and Latin America.
Apart from spying, it can also run commands to perform file operations, fetch additional payloads, steal files and data, and execute processes on the compromised device.
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Iranian stated-backed hackers exploited the Log4Shell vuln in an unpatched VMware Horizon server, installed XMRig c… https://t.co/I5u1Fo2Fiv AminSabeti (from London ↔️ Washington DC) Wed Nov 16 16:37:26 +0000 2022
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