The US government has filed charges today against five Chinese nationals for hacking into more than 100 companies across the world, part of a state-sponsored…
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Nation-State APTs Target U.S. Utilities With Dangerous Malware
Researchers believe that nation-state actors are behind several spearphishing campaigns targeting U.S. utility companies with newly-identified malware, which has the capabilities to view system data…
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Iran-Linked APT34 Invites Victims to LinkedIn for Fresh Malware Infections
The group was posing as a researcher from Cambridge and was found to have added three new malware families to its spy arsenal. A recent…
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MITRE ATT&CK Framework Not Just for the Big Guys
At Black Hat, analysts from MITRE and Splunk will detail how organizations of many different sizes are leveraging ATT&CK’s common language. Biology, zoology, and related…
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APT Increasingly Targets Canadian Orgs
Canadian organizations are being warned that they are increasingly becoming the targets of cyber-threats, with researchers discovering nearly 100 malicious email campaigns that have been…
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Telcos around the world hit by long-term intelligence gathering cyberattack
A long-term, large scale attack targeting telecom companies around the world has been discovered. The attack, dubbed Operation Soft Cell by security firm Cybereason, saw…
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NASA hacked because of unauthorized Raspberry Pi connected to its network
A report published this week by the NASA Office of Inspector General reveals that in April 2018 hackers breached the agency’s network and stole approximately…
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Nation-Sponsored Hackers Likely Carried Out Hostile Takeover Of Rival Group’s Servers
If nation-sponsored hacking was baseball, the Russian-speaking group called Turla would not just be a Major League team—it would be a perennial playoff contender. Researchers…
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Vietnam Rises as Cyberthreat
The country’s rapid economic growth and other factors are driving an increase in cybercrime and cyber espionage activity. Vietnam has rarely been associated with cybercrime…
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‘Malware-free’ attacks now most popular tactic amongst cybercriminals
More than half of attacks last year leveraged fileless or “malware-free” techniques, as hackers increasingly turn to stolen credentials in their efforts to breach corporate…
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