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A phishing campaign is targeting the emails of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign staff. All fingers are pointing towards Russia once more. According to security firm Trend Micro who published a new report today, there are signs of a Read More …
The UK’s Foreign Office was targeted by highly motivated and well-resourced hackers over several months in 2016. The BBC understands the government has investigated the previously unreported attack that began in April last year. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre Read More …
Symantec announced that it had connected at least 40 attacks across 16 countries where tools obtained and exposed by WikiLeaks via the Vault 7 revelations about CIA’s espionage tactics were used. In a lengthy report, Symantec talks about a highly Read More …
In the waning moments of his 2016 talk at the Security Analyst Summit, Thomas Rid had a drop-the-mic moment when he disclosed there were likely links between the infamous Moonlight Maze cyberespionage operation of the mid- and late-1990s and the Read More …
The Lazarus Group, a nation-state level of attacker tied to the 2014 attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment, has splintered off a portion of its operation to concentrate on stealing money to fund itself. The group, widely believed to be North Read More …
Russian espionage group Turla has been working on various tools for years, including several new versions of Carbon, a second stage backdoor malware. The discovery was made by researchers from ESET who claim that this malware is still under active Read More …
Fears about Russian involvement in European elections, especially after last year’s US election, aren’t exactly unfounded or born out of paranoia. In fact, Germany says it fended off two cyber attacks coming from the same cybercriminals that targeted Hillary Clinton’s Read More …
