DeathStalker APT group seen in US for first time this year, targeting user devices
The attack featured a new strain of malware that was spotted in the wild, which centers around a backdoor aims to take over user devices.
The attack featured a new strain of malware that was spotted in the wild, which centers around a backdoor aims to take over user devices.
The Crutch toolset was designed to exfiltrate sensitive documents and other files to DropBox accounts controlled by Turla operators.
Threat actors conducting cyber-espionage can range from nation states to business competitors and in some cases, organized crime groups.
Researchers at the mobile tech giant are calling upon peers to help define the attackers end game.
Said McAfee’s chief scientist: “This was not an attack of opportunism. This was an attack against specific victims.”
A recent government advisory on the North Korean APT group offered some of the best actionable guidance to security teams that some researchers have seen in a long time.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned a Russian government research institution linked to Triton malware targeting industrial safety systems, the first time the U.S. took such an action for an industrial control system attack. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin called out the Russian government for continuing “to engage in dangerous cyber activities aimed…
Over the past two decades, China has mobilized state-owned and state-influenced companies to dominate several emerging markets, especially for 5G telecommunications equipment, according to a report from the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) The 50-page report, a follow-up to its March 2020 report, focuses on creating a supply chain strategy for information and communications technologies…
After previously expressing support for Oracle’s planned partnering with TikTok, the Trump administration took a step back from the deal Friday with the Commerce Department putting prohibitions on transactions related to the video-sharing platform and, separately, on the mobile communications app WeChat, both owned by Chinese companies. President Trump had said at a Wednesday news…
Among the particular concerns, said FBI Director Christopher Wray, is the targeting of managed service providers as a way of attacking multiple victims by hacking just one provider.