- Ukraine’s defense intel launches cyber attack on Gazprom
January 31, 2025
On the anniversary of the Battle of Kruty, a cyber unit of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate launched a DDoS attack on the digital infrastructure of Russia’s Gazprom and Gazpromneft. In particular, Ukrainian cyber professionals attacked the online services of the enterprises that support the activities of the Russian army. From January 28, 2025, company clients were ...
- Smiths Group: Shares fall as engineering giant hit by cyber attack
January 28, 2025
Global engineering firm Smiths Group has reported a cyber security incident involving unauthorised access to its systems. Upon detecting the breach, the firm promptly isolated the affected systems and activated its business continuity plans to mitigate disruptions. The company, known for its baggage screening equipment and explosive detectors, is collaborating with cyber-security experts to restore the ...
- Hit by wave of cyber attacks, Japan shifts to ‘active cyber defence’
January 20, 2025
apan aims to take a more proactive approach to cyber defence by allowing hackers working for the authorities to “attack” pre-emptively to prevent or stop sabotage attempts. Under a new strategy of “active cyber defence”, Japan plans to allow hackers working for the police or Self-Defence Forces (SDF) to infiltrate servers to neutralise the source ...
- CIA employee pleads guilty over leak of classified Israeli plans
January 17, 2025
A CIA employee who was accused of leaking classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran pleaded guilty on Friday to criminal charges that he willfully retained and transmitted national defense information, the U.S. Department of Justice said. In pleading guilty, Asif William Rahman, who worked at the U.S. intelligence agency since 2016, acknowledged that he ...
- New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts
January 16, 2025
Star Blizzard’s new spear-phishing campaign, while novel in that it uses and targets WhatsApp for the first time, exhibits familiar spear-phishing TTPs for Star Blizzard, with the threat actor initiating email contact with their targets, to engage them, before sending them a second message containing a malicious link. The sender address used by the threat actor ...
- Japan links Chinese hacker MirrorFace to dozens of cyberattacks targeting security and tech data
January 8, 2025
Japan on Wednesday linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country’s national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, MirrorFace, detailing their tactics and calling on government agencies and businesses to reinforce preventive measures. MirrorFace sent emails with attachments containing malware to targeted organizations and individuals to view ...
- U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions
December 30, 2024
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea. ...
- Lazarus group evolves its infection chain with old and new malware
December 19, 2024
Over the past few years, the Lazarus group has been distributing its malicious software by exploiting fake job opportunities targeting employees in various industries, including defense, aerospace, cryptocurrency, and other global sectors. This attack campaign is called the DeathNote campaign and is also referred to as “Operation DreamJob”. Kaspersky researchers have previously published the history of ...
- First Israeli-built quantum computer now in operation
December 18, 2024
Israel’s first domestically built quantum computer, using advanced superconducting technology, is now operational. The 20-qubit quantum computer was developed under the leadership of the Israel Innovation Authority, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Hebrew University, and Yissum, the university’s technology transfer company. This collaboration has established a superconductor-based quantum computer infrastructure alongside a robust development and integration environment. ...
- NCIA experts enable Exercise Cyber Coalition 24
December 6, 2024
From 27 November to 6 December 2024, Exercise Cyber Coalition took place from the Cyber Range 14 in Tallinn, Estonia. Operating annually since 2008, Cyber Coalition is NATO’s flagship cyber defence exercise and one of the largest in the world. The 2024 edition of the exercise aims to further enhance NATO, Allies and partners’ resilience to ...
- Senators say US military is failing to secure its phones from foreign spies
December 4, 2024
Two U.S. senators are accusing the Department of Defense (DOD) of not doing enough to protect the communications of its military personnel, as the U.S. government contends with an ongoing Chinese hacking campaign targeting American phone and internet giants. The senators say the Department of Defense still relies too heavily on old-fashioned landline calls, and unencrypted ...
- Ex-South Korean defence chief, officials accused of THAAD data leak to China
November 20, 2024
A former South Korean defence minister and three other senior officials who served in the previous Moon Jae-in administration have been accused of leaking intelligence on a US-built missile system to activists and China. The state auditor alleged that Jeong Kyeong-doo, ex-national security adviser Chung Eui-yong and two high-ranking officers passed information on the Terminal High ...
- Space tech giant Maxar confirms hacker accessed employees’ personal data
November 18, 2024
U.S. space technology and satellite giant Maxar has confirmed a data breach involving the personal information of its employees, according to a filing with state regulators. The Colorado-headquartered Maxar operates imaging satellites and manufactures spacecraft, and claims to operate one of the largest commercial satellite constellations on orbit. Maxar has long been a significant provider of ...
- Philippines, US sign military intelligence-sharing deal to counter China
November 18, 2024
The Philippines and the United States have signed a military intelligence-sharing deal, in a further deepening of security ties between the two defence treaty allies as they seek to counter a resurgent China. Secretary of Defense Gilberto Teodoro and his visiting US counterpart Lloyd Austin signed the agreement on Monday during a ceremony at the Department ...
- Threats in space (or rather, on Earth): Internet-exposed GNSS receivers
November 13, 2024
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are collections, or constellations of satellite positioning systems. There are several GNSSs launched by different countries currently in operation: GPS (US), GLONASS (Russia), Galileo (EU), BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS, China), Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC, India) and Quazi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS, Japan). These systems are used for positioning, navigation ...
- Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison
November 12, 2024
Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts National Guard, has been jailed for 15 years for leaking classified documents about the war in Ukraine and other military secrets. A federal judge in Boston, United States, on Tuesday sentenced the 22-year-old after he pleaded guilty earlier this year to six counts of wilful retention and transmission of ...
- Chinese threat actor Storm-0940 uses credentials from password spray attacks from a covert network
October 31, 2024
Since August 2023, Microsoft has observed intrusion activity targeting and successfully stealing credentials from multiple Microsoft customers that is enabled by highly evasive password spray attacks. Microsoft has linked the source of these password spray attacks to a network of compromised devices we track as CovertNetwork-1658, also known as xlogin and Quad7 (7777). Microsoft is publishing ...
- Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files
October 29, 2024
Since October 22, 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard sending a series of highly targeted spear-phishing emails to individuals in government, academia, defense, non-governmental organizations, and other sectors. This activity is ongoing, and Microsoft will continue to investigate and provide updates as available. Based on our investigation of previous Midnight Blizzard ...
- The Crypto Game of Lazarus APT: Investors vs. Zero-days
October 23, 2024
On May 13, 2024, Kaspersky consumer-grade product Kaspersky Total Security detected a new Manuscrypt infection on the personal computer of a person living in Russia. Since Lazarus rarely attacks individuals, this piqued Kaspersky researchers interest and they decided to take a closer look. The researchers discovered that prior to the detection of Manuscrypt, Kaspersky technologies also ...
- Taiwan: Defense ministry confirms basic data leak
October 21, 2024
The Ministry of National Defense today confirmed a data leak of basic personal information about certain high-ranking officials in response to a report from Chinese-language media, but said it did not include any information about personal asset holdings. The China Times this morning published a report saying that personal data of people ranked colonel and above ...