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CEO who sold fake Cisco devices to US military gets 6 years in prison
2024-05-02 22:01

Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of companies controlling multiple online storefronts, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to government, health, education, and military organizations worldwide. These devices all had "Counterfeit Cisco labels, stickers, boxes, documentation, and packaging, all bearing counterfeit trademarks registered and owned by Cisco that made the goods falsely appear to be new, genuine, and high-quality devices manufactured and authorized by Cisco."

Florida man gets 6 years behind bars for flogging fake Cisco kit to US military
2024-05-02 20:58

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Germany arrests trio accused of trying to smuggle naval military tech to China
2024-04-22 15:30

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Germany cuffs alleged Russian spies over plot to bomb industrial and military targets
2024-04-19 10:15

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FBI disrupts Moobot botnet used by Russian military hackers
2024-02-15 18:00

The FBI took down a botnet of small office/home office routers used by Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff in spearphishing and credential theft attacks targeting the United States and its allies. Subsequently, the GRU hackers leveraged the Moobot malware to deploy their own custom malicious tools, effectively repurposing the botnet into a cyber espionage tool with global reach.

Chinese Hackers Exploited FortiGate Flaw to Breach Dutch Military Network
2024-02-07 06:29

Chinese state-backed hackers broke into a computer network that's used by the Dutch armed forces by targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices. "This [computer network] was used for unclassified...

Chinese hackers infect Dutch military network with malware
2024-02-06 18:49

A Chinese cyber-espionage group breached the Dutch Ministry of Defence last year and deployed malware on compromised devices, according to the Military Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands. During the follow-up investigation, a previously unknown malware strain named Coathanger, a remote access trojan designed to infect Fortigate network security appliances, was also discovered on the breached network.

Russian military hackers target Ukraine with new MASEPIE malware
2023-12-28 17:43

Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team is warning of a new phishing campaign that allowed Russia-linked hackers to deploy previously unseen malware on a network in under one hour. The links redirect victims to malicious web resources that employ JavaScript to drop a Windows shortcut file that launches PowerShell commands to trigger an infection chain for a new Python malware downloader called 'MASEPIE.'.

Ukrainian military says it hacked Russia's federal tax agency
2023-12-12 20:39

The Ukrainian government's military intelligence service says it hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service, wiping the agency's database and backup copies. Following this operation, carried out by cyber units within Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, military intelligence officers breached Russia's federal taxation service central servers and 2,300 regional servers across Russia and occupied Ukrainian territories.

Russian military hackers target NATO fast reaction corps
2023-12-07 22:20

Russian APT28 military hackers used Microsoft Outlook zero-day exploits to target multiple European NATO member countries, including a NATO Rapid Deployable Corps. The Russian hackers are also tracked as Fighting Ursa, Fancy Bear, and Sofacy, and they've been previously linked to Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, the country's military intelligence service.