Security News

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...

Iranian Hackers Using MuddyC2Go in Telecom Espionage Attacks Across Africa
2023-12-19 11:41

The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has leveraged a newly discovered command-and-control (C2) framework called MuddyC2Go in its attacks on the telecommunications sector in Egypt,...

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....

New Threat Actor 'AeroBlade' Emerges in Espionage Attack on U.S. Aerospace
2023-12-05 07:55

A previously undocumented threat actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting an aerospace organization in the U.S. as part of what's suspected to be a cyber espionage mission. The BlackBerry...

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....

Chinese Hackers Launch Covert Espionage Attacks on 24 Cambodian Organizations
2023-11-13 05:58

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations. "This activity is believed to be part of a long-term espionage campaign," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said in a report last week.

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...