Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on a Friday afternoon. The hacking group also compromised three entities using password-spraying and brute-force techniques, which […]
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) Microsoft has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability that North Korean hackers were using to target security researchers with malware. The in-the-wild attacks came to light in January in posts from Google and Microsoft. Hackers backed by the North Korean government, both posts said, spent weeks developing working relationships […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) By now, most people know that hackers tied to the Russian government compromised the SolarWinds software build system and used it to push a malicious update to some 18,000 of the company’s customers. On Monday, researchers published evidence that hackers from China also targeted SolarWinds customers in what security analysts have […]
Enlarge (credit: Oleksii Leonov) Ukraine has accused the Russian government of hacking into one of its government Web portals and planting malicious documents that would install malware on end users’ computers. “The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of information resources of public authorities, as this system is used for the circulation of […]
Enlarge / Cyber threat from North Korea. North Korean hacker at the computer, on a background of binary code, the colors of the flag of the DPRK. DDoS attack (credit: Dmitry Nogaev | Getty Images) Google has warned it has uncovered an “ongoing” state-backed hacking campaign run by North Korea targeting cyber security researchers. The […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Email management provider Mimecast said that hackers have compromised a digital certificate it issued and used it to target select customers who use it to encrypt data they sent and received through the company’s cloud-based service. In a post published on Tuesday, the company said that the certificate was used by […]
Enlarge (credit: Gregory Varnum) The US Justice Department has become the latest federal agency to say its network was breached in a long and wide-ranging hack campaign that’s believed to have been backed by the Russian government. In a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said that the breach wasn’t discovered until […]
Microsoft was murdered with exactly the identical group that jeopardized the networks of applications manufacturer SolarWinds and multiple national agencies, Reuters reported, citing people knowledgeable about the issue. Citing the very exact individuals, the news agency said that Microsoft’s own products were subsequently utilised in follow-on hacks others. It was not immediately clear just how […]
The U.S. atomic weapons bureau and three countries were murdered as a member of a supposed Russian cyber-attack that encountered many national government agencies. The Energy Department and its National Nuclear Security Administration, which claims America’s nuclear stockpile, were targeted as part of a bigger assault by suspected Russian hackers, according to a individual familiar […]
Expand (charge: Getty Images) Approximately 18,000 companies around the globe downloaded network administration tools which comprised a non invasive that spies considered to be supported by the Russian authorities could utilize to set up extra malware which stole sensitive information, the resources supplier, SolarWinds, stated on Monday. The disclosure out of Austin, Texas-based software manufacturer […]