Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sundry Photography) More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a week before Christmas in 2016, using a unique, automated piece of code to interact directly with the station’s circuit breakers and turn off the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sundry Photography) More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a week before Christmas in 2016, using a unique, automated piece of code to interact directly with the station’s circuit breakers and turn off the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers for one of Russia’s most elite and brazen spy agencies have infected home and small-office network devices around the world with a previously unseen malware that turns them into attack platforms that can steal confidential data plus target other networks. Cyclops Blink, as the advanced malware has been dubbed, has […]
Enlarge / The logo of the French national cybersecurity agency Agence Nationale de la securite des systemes d’information(ANSSI) taken at ANSSI headquarters in Paris. (credit: Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images) The Russian military hackers known as Sandworm, responsible for everything from blackouts in Ukraine to NotPetya, the most destructive malware in history, don’t […]
Expand (charge: US Justice Department) Seven men accused of taking out a few of the planet’s most damaging hacks–such as the NotPetya disc wiper and electricity grid strikes that knocked out power to get thousands and thousands of Ukrainians–were indicted in US federal court. The indictment stated that six guys are officers at a brazen […]