Security News

U.S. Government Disrupts Russia-Linked Botnet Engaged in Cyber Espionage
2024-02-16 06:49

The U.S. government on Thursday said it disrupted a botnet comprising hundreds of small office and home office (SOHO) routers in the country that was put to use by the Russia-linked APT28 actor to...

Sea Turtle Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Dutch IT and Telecom Companies
2024-01-06 08:19

Telecommunication, media, internet service providers (ISPs), information technology (IT)-service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands have been targeted as part of a new cyber...

Russian APT28 Hackers Targeting 13 Nations in Ongoing Cyber Espionage Campaign
2023-12-12 14:52

The Russian nation-state threat actor known as APT28 has been observed making use of lures related to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war to facilitate the delivery of a custom backdoor called HeadLace....

Russian Cyber Espionage Group Deploys LitterDrifter USB Worm in Targeted Attacks
2023-11-18 06:32

Russian cyber espionage actors affiliated with the Federal Security Service (FSB) have been observed using a USB propagating worm called LitterDrifter in attacks targeting Ukrainian entities....

Iranian Cyber Espionage Group Targets Financial and Government Sectors in Middle East
2023-11-01 11:22

A threat actor affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been observed waging a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign targeting financial, government, military, and...

YoroTrooper: Researchers Warn of Kazakhstan's Stealthy Cyber Espionage Group
2023-10-26 04:25

A relatively new threat actor known as YoroTrooper is likely made of operators originating from Kazakhstan. The assessment, which comes from Cisco Talos, is based on their fluency in Kazakh and...

International Criminal Court systems breached for cyber espionage
2023-10-21 14:01

The International Criminal Court provided additional information about the cyberattack five weeks ago, saying that it was a targeted operation for espionage purposes. As an international tribunal, the International Criminal Court is seated in The Hague, Netherlands, and its attributions are to investigate, and to hold accountable individuals committing crimes of concern to the international community.

TetrisPhantom: Cyber Espionage via Secure USBs Targets APAC Governments
2023-10-18 09:11

Government entities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are the target of a long-running cyber espionage campaign dubbed TetrisPhantom. "The attacker covertly spied on and harvested sensitive data...

Guyana Governmental Entity Hit by DinodasRAT in Cyber Espionage Attack
2023-10-05 10:39

A governmental entity in Guyana has been targeted as part of a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Jacana. The activity, which was detected by ESET in February 2023, entailed a...

China Accuses U.S. of Decade-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Huawei Servers
2023-09-21 09:39

China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) has accused the U.S. of breaking into Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and implanting backdoors since 2009, amid mounting geopolitical tensions...