Hackers

Russian hackers are targeting US govt officials, defence workers: Microsoft

Microsoft has said the attacks are perpetrated by sophisticated Russian nation-state group Midnight Blizzard, which US and UK governments have connected to SVR, Russian foreign intelligence service

Chinese hackers targeted phone communication of Donald Trump, JD Vance

According to one of the sources, the Chinese hackers also targeted senior Biden administration officials

Supreme Court's YouTube channel hacked, promotes cryptocurrency scam

Attempts to access the channel have been met with ads and videos unrelated to the court's official content

How lessons learned from 2016 campaign led US to be open about Iran hack

The 2016 presidential campaign was entering its final months and seemingly all of Washington was abuzz with talk about how Russian hackers had penetrated the email accounts of Democrats, triggering the release of internal communications that seemed designed to boost Donald Trump's campaign and hurt Hillary Clinton's. Yet there was a notable exception: The officials investigating the hacks were silent. When they finally issued a statement, one month before the election, it was just three paragraphs and did little more than confirm what had been publicly suspected that there had been a brazen Russian effort to interfere in the vote. This year, there was another foreign hack, but the response was decidedly different. US security officials acted more swiftly to name the culprit, detailing their findings and blaming a foreign adversary this time, Iran just over a week after Trump's campaign revealed the attack. They accused Iranian hackers of targeting the presidential campaigns of b

Chinese hackers breach Indian, US internet firms via startup, says Lumen

'Volt Typhoon has breached four US firms, including internet service providers, and another in India through a vulnerability in a Versa Networks server product'

Anti-Israel hackers published extensive amount of classified data: Report

The leaks involve tens of thousands of sensitive documents and emails stolen from Israeli institutions, including the Justice Ministry, it reported

Iranian hackers targeted WhatsApp of staffers in Biden, Trump admins: Meta

The same Iranian hacking group believed to have targeted both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, tried to go after the WhatsApp accounts of staffers in the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Meta Platforms said Friday. Meta said it discovered the network of hackers, who posed as tech support agents for companies including Microsoft and Google, after individuals who received the suspicious WhatsApp messages reported them. Meta's investigators linked the activity to the same network blamed for the hacking incident reported by Trump's campaign. The FBI this week said a hack by Iran of the Trump campaign and an attempted breach of the Biden-Harris campaign was part of a broader Iranian effort to interfere with the U.S. presidential election. A statement Friday from Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, said that the hackers had tried to target the WhatsApp account of individuals in the Middle East, the United States and the

Attack on aviation: GPS spoofers 'hack time' on commercial airlines

Recently, an aircraft operated by a major Western airline had its onboard clocks suddenly sent forward by years, causing the plane to lose access to its digitally-encrypted communication systems

Hackers leak documents from US Pentagon's IT provider Leidos, probe begins

Leidos recently learned of the issue and believes the documents were stolen in a previously disclosed breach of a Diligent Corp. system it used, said the person, who asked not to be identified

Microsoft adds security chiefs to product groups in wake of hackings

The software giant said it is adding deputy chief information security officers within its product groups, while declining to identify the new officials

Hackers subverted security devices to spy on governments, says Cisco

In a statement, the company said it urged customers to take immediate action to update their software. It did not give further details on the breaches, which it said dated back to earlier this year

US, UK accuse China over spy campaign that may have hit millions

Britain's government is expected to blame a string of cyberattacks targeting the U.K.'s election watchdog and lawmakers on hackers linked to the Chinese government, Officials are expected to announce Monday measures against cyber organizations and individuals affiliated with the Chinese government for an attack that may have gained access to information on tens of millions of U.K. voters held by the Electoral Commission, as well as cyberattacks targeting lawmakers who have been outspoken about the China threat. The Electoral Commission said in August that it identified a cyberattack on its system in October 2022, though it added that hostile actors had first been able to access its servers since 2021. At the time, the watchdog said the data included the names and addresses of registered voters. But it added that much of the information was already in the public domain, and that possessing such information was unlikely to influence election results. Separately, three lawmakers, ...

Leaked files show secret world of China's hackers for hire: Report

The offerings, detailed in leaked documents, were a portion of the hacking tools and data caches sold by a Chinese security firm called I-Soon

Law enforcement agencies infiltrate, disrupt ransomware group LockBit

Law-enforcement agencies have infiltrated and disrupted Lockbit, a prolific ransomware syndicate behind cyberattacks around the world, Britain's National Crime Agency said Tuesday. The agency said it led an international operation targeting LockBit, which provides ransomware as a service to so-called affiliates who infect victim networks with the computer-crippling malware and negotiate ransoms. The group has been linked to thousands of attacks since 2019. Hours before the announcement, the front page of LockBit's site was replaced with the words this site is now under control of law enforcement, alongside the flags of the UK, the US and several other nations. The message said the website was under the control of the UK's National Crime Agency working in close cooperation with the FBI and the international law enforcement task force, Operation Cronos." It says it is an ongoing and developing operation that also involves agencies from Germany, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand a

Chinese hackers determined to 'wreak havoc' on US infrastructure: FBI chief

Chinese government hackers are busily targeting water treatment plants, the electrical grid, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure inside the United States, FBI Director Chris Wray told House lawmakers Wednesday in a fresh warning from Washington about Beijing's global ambitions. Underscoring the threat, the Justice Department and FBI announced just before the hearing that they had disrupted a botnet of hundreds of US-based small office and home routers owned by private citizens and companies and hijacked by the Chinese state hackers to cover their tracks and hide their origin as they sowed the malware. Speaking before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Wray said there's been far too little public focus on a cyber threat that affects every American". China's hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if or when China decides the time has co

Sony's video game plans leaked by Rhysida ransomware group: Report

Sony-owned Insomniac Games' more than 1.3 million files, including game roadmaps, budgets and information about an upcoming "Wolverine" title, have been leaked online by the Rhysida ransomware group

What is LockBit, the group that hacked world's biggest bank

Ransomware gang Lockbit posts what it says is Boeing data on website

Lockbit has proven prolific in the ransomware space in recent months. Just this week, it is suspected to have attacked Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd

Russia-linked hackers claim responsibility for OpenAI outage this week

The group presents itself as a "hacktivist" gang that is waging attacks out of Africa on behalf of oppressed Muslims worldwide

Govt starts hackathon to fight dark patterns on e-commerce websites

Dark patterns are defined as practices or deceptive design patterns using user interface/user experience interactions on any platform, designed to mislead or trick users