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May have reeled in blueprints related to weapons development A Chinese national has been accused of conducting a years-long spear-phishing campaign that aimed to steal source code from the US Army...
Augmented reality meets warped reality A defense ministry official from Belarus has claimed augmented reality game Pokémon GO was a tool of Western intelligence agencies.…
US alarmed by heightened Kremlin naval activity worldwide Russia's naval activity near undersea cables is reportedly drawing the scrutiny of US officials, further sparking concerns that the...
The US Department of Justice has named five Russian computer hackers as members of Unit 29155 – i.e., the 161st Specialist Training Center of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence...
The United States and its allies have linked a group of Russian military intelligence hackers (tracked as Cadet Blizzard and Ember Bear) to Unit 29155 of Russia's Main Directorate of the General...
The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged a North Korean national over a series of ransomware attacks on stateside hospitals and healthcare providers, US defense companies, NASA, and even a Chinese target. An indictment [PDF] named Rim Jong Hyok as a participant in "a conspiracy to hack and extort US hospitals and other health care providers, launder the ransom proceeds, and then use these proceeds to fund additional computer intrusions into defense, technology, and government entities worldwide."
Arnold provides insights into the DoD's Zero Trust Overlays guide and the future evolution of zero-trust principles in a military context. Where should the military begin its training process for zero trust principles? Should specific tools or technologies be implemented first to support this training?
Lookout discovered GuardZoo, Android spyware targeting Middle Eastern military personnel. Based on application lures, targeting, and threat actor-controlled server locations, Lookout attributes GuardZoo to a Yemeni, Houthi-aligned threat actor.
Military personnel from Middle East countries are the target of an ongoing surveillanceware operation that delivers an Android data-gathering tool called GuardZoo. GuardZoo is a modified version of an Android remote access trojan named Dendroid RAT that was first discovered by Broadcom-owned Symantec in March 2014.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new phishing campaign that has been identified as targeting people in Pakistan using a custom backdoor. Dubbed PHANTOM#SPIKE by Securonix, the...