cyber security
Ransom group linked to Colonial Pipeline hack is new but experienced
The ransomware group linked to the extortion attempt that has snared fuel deliveries across the east coast of America may be new, but that doesn’t mean its hackers are amateu...
White House blames Russian spy agency SVR for SolarWinds hack
The Biden-Harris White House has said in a statement that Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, was responsible for the SolarWinds hack, which led to the c...
Microsoft could reap more than $150 million in new US cyber spending
Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of COVID relief funds destined for US cybersecurity defenders, sources told journalists, angering some lawmakers who don’t want t...
UK’s cyber spies embrace the AI revolution
Cyber spies at Britain’s GCHQ say they have fully embraced artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover patterns in vast amounts of global data to counter hostile disinformation a...
Police dismantle the ‘most dangerous’ criminal hacking network
International law enforcement agencies have said they had hammered a criminal hacking scheme used to steal tens of thousands of dollars from companies and private citizens worldwid...
Departing FCC chair warns of threats to telecoms from China
The outgoing US Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said possible Chinese espionage and dangers to US telecom networks and internet freedom are the biggest national...
Investigators say SolarWinds hackers are linked to Russian spying tools
The group behind a international cyber-espionage campaign found last month deployed malicious computer code with hyperlinks to spying tools formerly used by suspected Russian hacke...
FBI probe of major hack includes project-management software from JetBrains
The FBI is investigating if the hackers supporting a series of intrusions in US national agencies and businesses also broke into project-management applications generated by the Cz...
US Justice Department says its emails were breached by SolarWinds hackers
The US Department of Justice has said its email systems were obtained by the hackers who broke into software company SolarWinds, another sign of the gravity of the breach which has...
Biden says President Trump must blame Russia for cyber attack
Joe Biden has said he had seen no evidence that a massive cyber attack against the US is under control and warned that the breach will not go unanswered once he takes office on Jan...
Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell join legal battle against hacking company
Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on Monday joined Facebook’s legal struggle against hacking company NSO, submitting an amicus brief in federal court which warned th...
‘Dozens of email accounts’ were hacked at US Treasury -Senator Wyden
Dozens of email accounts in the US Treasury Department were included by the hackers accountable for a broad espionage campaign against US government agencies, the office of US Sena...
Second hacking team was targeting SolarWinds at time of big breach
Another hacking group, different from the suspected Russian team now associated with the important SolarWinds data breach, also targeted the organization’s products earlier t...
US Homeland Security scrambles after suspected Russian hack
The US Department of Homeland Security and thousands of businesses scrambled Monday to investigate and respond to a sweeping hacking campaign that officials suspect was directed fr...
President Trump’s conspiracies pose ‘existential’ threat to e-voting
Conspiracy theories about how voting machines were used to stop the re-election of Donald J Trump have not just sapped Americans’ faith in the democratic process – they...