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The Justice Department on Wednesday joined a growing list of confirmed victims in the public and private sector of a suspected Russian espionage campaign that used tainted software made by SolarWinds. The attackers were able to burrow their way into the Microsoft Office 365 email accounts of Justice Department employees and potentially had access to “around 3%” of such email accounts in the… → Read More
U.S. government agencies investigating a sophisticated espionage operation that uses tampered software made by SolarWinds said for the first time Tuesday that the hacking is “likely Russian in origin,” calling it “a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate.” The statement from multiple federal agencies — one of the most detailed official comments yet… → Read More
The fallout from a sweeping hacking campaign by suspected Russian operatives continued Monday as Sen. Ron Wyden said that the hackers had breached “dozens of email accounts” of officials at the Treasury Department. The hackers “broke into systems in the Departmental Offices division of Treasury, home to the department’s highest-ranking officials,” Wyden said after Treasury officials briefed the… → Read More
U.S. national security officials have briefed the transition team for President-elect Joe Biden and Capitol Hill aides on the consequences of a suspected government-backed hacking campaign affecting multiple federal agencies, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Trump administration officials held multiple briefings on the topic for Biden aides on Monday, and there is a… → Read More
The phishing campaign began in September and has targeted organizations in six countries in Europe and Asia, according to IBM. → Read More
Ware said he's looking to start a technology company. → Read More
Manufacturing, like other sectors such as health care, has endured a rise in opportunistic attacks from criminals. → Read More
The incident is a blow for a budding company that had recently attracted funding from Silicon Valley and New York venture firms alike. → Read More
Facebook has fended off plenty of phony, pill-pushing ad campaigns over the years, but the company disrupted one effort last year that was particularly pernicious, and effective. Hackers defrauded Facebook users out of more than $4 million in a scheme that security staffers have connected to a cybercrime network in China. The details, revealed Thursday, demonstrate how attackers breached… → Read More
In the face of persistent cyberthreats, the White House effort to fix important U.S. security weaknesses risks coming up short, GAO says. → Read More
Ohio has established guidelines for security experts to help fix software flaws in the state’s election-related websites, the first such move by a state. → Read More
Election Systems & Software announced a policy to work closely with security researchers to find software bugs in the company’s IT networks and websites. → Read More
Software bug bounties are ubiquitous in the cybersecurity industry, but those focused on hardware are rarer. → Read More
The memo includes multiple examples since February of state-linked hackers trying to compromise organizations to steal data, spoil it or hold it for ransom. → Read More
The issue risked exposing people to malware used to steal credit card information and email credentials. → Read More
Hackers crossed a line last week when they struck the computer network of the Czech Republic’s second largest hospital as it was testing people for the novel coronavirus. Former White House and British intelligence officials condemned the cyberattack. It is the sort of digital depravity that U.S. prosecutors have vowed to crack down on during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was also a tipping point… → Read More
HHS saw an uptick in scanning, and U.S. officials are investigating. → Read More
Multiple European utilities are investigating the incident. → Read More
While there were some notable technical glitches in the voting process, nothing malicious came to pass. → Read More
To help stop ransomware attacks, the FBI quietly convened the country’s top ransomware experts in an unprecedented, closed-door conference in September. → Read More