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India's military has celebrated the nation's Independence Day by announcing it will adopt locally developed quantum key distributiontechnology that can operate across distances of 150km. While the likes of Toshiba offer a commercial service, current implementations such as a network in London span just 32km. India's military announced it has trialled tech that operates over 150km, and now plans to buy it and put it to work.
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense confirmed it was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday in what has been an eventful week for the island nation, US-Sino relations, and semiconductors. The DDoS attack on the Ministry of Defense followed a separate one on Taiwan's presidential website on Tuesday.
The government of Belgium has claimed it detected three Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat actors attacking its public service and defence forces. A government statement names Advanced Persistent Threat 27, 30, and 31 - aka UNSC 2814, GALLIUM, and SOFTCELL - as the groups responsible for the attacks.
US security technology provider L3Harris has courted controversial Israeli spyware firm NSO with an aim to buy it, according to reports. The New York Times claims L3Harris in recent months sent a team to Israel to try to smooth passage of the deal, which was made challenging by US president Joe Biden's decision to blacklist NSO following the use of its Pegasus software to crack phones of politicians and campaigners.
Military entities located in Bangladesh continue to be at the receiving end of sustained cyberattacks by an advanced persistent threat tracked as Bitter. "Through malicious document files and...
An advanced persistent threat group, with ties to Iran, is believed behind a phishing campaign targeting high-profile government and military Israeli personnel, according to a report by Check Point Software. Targets of the campaign included a senior leadership in the Israeli defense industry, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
People are leaking classified military information on discussion boards for the video game War Thunder to win arguments—repeatedly.
Cyberattacks against Ukraine have been used strategically to support ground campaigns, with five state-sponsored advanced persistent threat groups behind attacks that began in February. From late February to mid-March, another series of wiper attacks using malware called HermeticWiper, IsaacWiper and CaddyWiper targeted organizations in the Ukraine as Russia commenced its physical invasion.
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced up to $10 million in rewards for information on six hackers associated with the Russian military intelligence service. "These individuals participated in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Russian government against U.S. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act," the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program said.
A China-linked government-sponsored threat actor has been observed targeting Russian speakers with an updated version of a remote access trojan called PlugX. Secureworks attributed the attempted intrusions to a threat actor it tracks as Bronze President, and by the wider cybersecurity community under the monikers Mustang Panda, TA416, HoneyMyte, RedDelta, and PKPLUG. "The war in Ukraine has prompted many countries to deploy their cyber capabilities to gain insight about global events, political machinations, and motivations," the cybersecurity firm said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Chief among its tools is PlugX, a Windows backdoor that enables threat actors to execute a variety of commands on infected systems and which has been employed by several Chinese state-sponsored actors over the years.