FBI opens China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours
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.
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Report details how North Korean and Russian cybercriminals are cooperating
Several companies, media outlets and the U.S. government have accused North Korean state-sponsored hackers of purchasing access to pre-hacked servers from criminal groups. But the connections to specific criminal groups have been a little more tenuous. Now a new meta-analysis of previous reports from Intel 471 establish a likely connection to TrickBot. TrickBot, as well…
Trump’s agenda promises ‘great cybersecurity.’ What does that mean?
The new strategy document is short on details, but here are some areas that the market can expect to take center stage once Trump does announce a detailed policy.
Australia the latest to push digital sovereignty, shake up cyber world order
Comments from former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull reinforce international calls for countries to decouple themselves from companies in the U.S. and China.
DHS and FBI warn of North Korean malware targeted at defense contractors
The alert appears to be in reference to the trojan behind several reported employment scams attributed to North Korea
U.S. urges Linux users to secure kernels from new Russian malware threat
Linux users should not assume they are safe from the ambitions and reach of reputed Russian hacking group Fancy Bear, which has been using a newly disclosed malware toolset to establish a command-and-control connection with infected Linux systems. Called Drovorub, the toolset essentially creates a backdoor that enables file downloads and uploads, the execution of…
US expands Clean Network to protect COVID-19 vaccine research from China
As concerns mount over China’s efforts to swipe intellectual property from U.S. companies – most recently COVID-19 vaccine research – the State Department has expanded its Clean Network program to protect U.S. critical telecommunications and technology infrastructure. Among the key objectives is to push vaccine research and other sensitive information to secured clouds. The programs…
Trade minister hack led to trade secrets leak before U.K. election
The hack of a U.K. trade minister’s email account – the result of a spear phishing campaign likely engineered by Russian operatives – led to the leak of U.S.-U.K. trade documents and perpetuated a disinformation campaign credited with influencing the 2019 U.K. election. Hackers were able to successfully access the email of Trade Minister Liam…
China targets networks with new Taidoor malware attacks
Wielding a new remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed Taidoor, Chinese government-supported hackers are behind a series of cyberespionage campaigns. Although it offered no details on the possible targets, CISA warned of the malware variants, noting that “the FBI has high confidence that Chinese government actors are using [them] in conjunction with proxy servers to maintain…
Tech workforce in defense and aerospace targeted in latest phishing attack
A phishing lure disguised as a legitimate inquiry by a recruiter for a new job opportunity inserts a malicious template into an attached Word document, which then gathers intelligence on the target, usually a highly-skilled technology worker in the aerospace and defense industries. The attack, dubbed Operation North Star, was discovered by researchers in McAfee’s…
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