Hacking
US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The US, UK and and various allies have accused China of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries to publicly call out Beijing for hacki...
Microsoft says Israeli group sold tools to hack Windows
An Israeli group sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab has said, shedding light on the growing business of finding and...
Biden orders probe of latest ransomware attack
President Biden has said he has directed US intelligence agencies to investigate who was behind a sophisticated ransomware attack that hit hundreds of American businesses and led t...
Like the Terminator, high-tech cyber crime to ‘keep coming’
Businesses worldwide are fighting sophisticated data scientists as they battle to protect their data-rich computers from cyber crime – and the costly attacks are not going to...
Ransomware gangs disrupted by response to Colonial Pipeline hack
Multiple ransomware groups claimed they were shutting down or scaling back operations last week as the US government ramped up pressure while tech companies, cryptocurrency exchang...
Brief: Five facts about ransomware attacks
A ransomware attack on top US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has brought attention to the growing area of cybercrime. This article aims to brief you as to what ransomware...
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...
SolarWinds says dealing with hack fallout cost at least $18 million
SolarWinds said the sprawling breach stemming from the compromise of its flagship software product has cost the company at least $18 million in the first three months of 2021.
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...
US government to respond to SolarWinds hackers in weeks
The Biden White House will respond “in weeks, not months” to the perpetrators of the SolarWinds hack, who used the US tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft...
White House cites ‘active threat,’ urges action despite Microsoft patch
The Biden White House has urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted amid a hack of Microsoft’s Outlook email program...
SolarWinds hack was ‘largest and most sophisticated attack’ ever
A hacking campaign that used a US tech company as a springboard to compromise government agencies is “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,”...
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...