The Wall Street Journal reports: Chinese police issued wanted notices for three people they said engaged in cyberattacks against China on behalf of the U.S. National Security Agency, a rare step by Beijing as hostilities between the superpowers escalate. The accusations that the NSA targeted the Asian Winter Games held in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin […]
Fox8 reports: Chinese officials acknowledged behind closed doors at a December meeting that their government was responsible for a series of cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to a Wall Street Journal report based on information from people familiar with the matter. The news comes as the two countries continue to spar over tariffs imposed by President Donald […]
Only days after news sites reported that RansomHub was collaborating with EvilCorp in developing its attacks, RansomHub appeared to have been the victim of a takeover by another group. Or perhaps it was just a merger? DragonForce recently posted an announcement on the RAMP cybercrime forum claiming that it had become partners with RansomHub. A […]
Newsweek reports: A group of hackers that previously targeted President Donald Trump has pledged to take aim at Elon Musk for the next month. DonRoad Team, which previously claimed responsibility for taking down several Trump-associated websites, announced Monday it would begin hitting sites linked to Elon Musk. Newsweek contacted Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twittter) and the Department of Government Efficiency […]
Greek City Times reports that he international hacker collective Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a series of cyberattacks targeting Turkish government infrastructure in response to alleged oppressive actions by the government: The group, known for its high-profile digital interventions, declared that more than 100 government websites in Turkey have been taken offline. Additionally, Anonymous claims […]
The Wall Street Journal reports: The Trump administration wants state and local governments to play a bigger role in protecting water utilities, ports and other critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. In an executive order signed Tuesday, President Trump directed White House senior security advisers to draw up a national resilience plan to protect critical infrastructure that […]
Marine Insight reports: A hacker group, Lab Dookhtegan, has claimed to have targeted 116 Iranian ships belonging to two major Iranian companies and disrupting their communication networks. The Group wrote on Telegram that the companies were involved in several illegal activities and supplied munitions to the Houthis. The cyber attack was carried out to coincide […]
SecurityWeek reports that Dragos has published an interesting case study about an attack by the Chinese threat actors known as Volt Typhoon on the electric grid. The target was Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), a small public power utility in Massachusetts that serves Littleton and Boxborough. The utility had been in the process […]
Dark Storm, the big scary-sounding group that took down X (formerly Twitter) in a DDoS attack was just an Egyptian college kid? Cybernews reports: A French security researcher on Tuesday claims to have uncovered the identity of the Dark Storm hacker behind the hours-long DDoS cyberattack on Elon Musk’s X social media platform – and […]
Bleeping Computer reports: New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners has disclosed that its systems were breached in January following a social engineering attack. The company manages over $90 billion in regulatory assets and has invested in over 800 software and technology startups and companies worldwide during its 30 years of activity. […]
