India has launched a dedicated cybersecurity incident response team for the critical energy sector. Officials said existing computer emergency response teams currently lack the resources and skilled professionals needed to defend against growing cyberattacks on power utilities and infrastructure.
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China's Ministry of State Security has accused a Taiwanese government agency of waging cyberattacks on the mainland's digital assets across multiple organizations and running disinformation campaigns on social media to disrupt the political system and sow social discord.
Four more European Union nations have joined a United States government-led initiative launched in March to tackle spyware misuse globally. The move came amid growing criticism of the European Commission's failure to curb the EU's prolific spyware market.
A North Korean hacking group with a history of a stealing cryptocurrency is likely behind a raft of poisoned Python packages targeting developers working on the Linux and macOS operating systems in an apparent attempt at a supply chain attack.
Ransomware hacks and self-declared hacktivist denial-of-services attacks were the most prolific threat to European Union members over the 12-month period ending in June, the EU cyber agency warned, adding that the nexus between nation-state hackers and hacktivist groups poses an emerging threat.
A Chinese state-sponsored botnet called Raptor Train has infected more than 260,000 IoT and office network devices to target critical infrastructure globally. The hackers used zero-days and known vulnerabilities to compromise more than 20 different types of devices to expand their botnet.
Microsoft warned the Kremlin is targeting the 2024 presidential election campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris with its wide-ranging election interference operations. Russian groups likely aligned with the Kremlin have shifted their focus to the Harris campaign in recent months.
A North Korean cyberespionage group is posing as job recruiters and targeting aerospace and energy sector employees with lucrative job offers, according to Mandiant. The hackers use email and WhatsApp messages to lure victims into clicking a link that deploys backdoor malware onto their devices.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday the bureau seized control of a Chinese-developed botnet that maintained access to thousands of compromised devices across the globe as part of an effort to launch widespread disruptive cyberattacks. The botnet is a Mirai variant.
It doesn't appear to be a cyberattack, security experts said of the hundreds of pagers that blew up Tuesday across Lebanon, an apparent salvo against Hezbollah militants by the Israeli government. "The only logical explanation is that explosives and a side channel for detonation was likely used."
U.S. federal prosecutors indicted a Chinese national employed by a state-owned aerospace and defense conglomerate with a yearslong phishing campaign aimed at extracting software developed for NASA. Prosecutors said Song began sending out targeted emails in 2017.
China's cyberespionage campaigns, viewed as an extension of the communist regime's wider geopolitical moves, rely on civilian hackers from domestic security firms for much of their success. Researchers say these groups face off in intense rivalries for lucrative government contracts.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury ramped up pressure on makers and sellers of Predator commercial spyware through sanctions on five individuals and a Caribbean company accused of enabling tens of millions of dollars of surveillance malware transactions.
The U.S. Department of State announced additional sanctions Friday against the Kremlin news outlet RT after officials received new information from employees of the organization that revealed how it has become a key component in the Russian military machine.
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