Security News

Report: Chinese Hackers First to Use NSA Cyberattack Tools
2019-05-07 16:18

Symantec Report Deepens Mystery Around Lost NSA Tools and ExploitsA Chinese hacking group was using exploits and tools developed by the NSA months before the tools were released by another group,...

Report: Chinese Hackers First to Use NSA Cyber Weapons
2019-05-07 12:48

Symantec Report Deepens Mystery Around Lost NSA Tools and ExploitsA Chinese hacking group was using exploits and tools developed by the NSA months before the tools were released by another group,...

Chinese Hackers Used NSA Hacking Tools Before Shadow Brokers Leaked Them
2019-05-07 08:48

In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA's Equation Group almost...

Chinese Hackers Used NSA Tool a Year Before Shadow Brokers Leak
2019-05-07 06:29

A Chinese threat actor was spotted using a tool attributed to the NSA-linked Equation Group more than one year prior to it being leaked by the mysterious Shadow Brokers, Symantec revealed on...

NSA foreign spying, biotech snooping, Hamas hackers bombed, airline cams, and much more from infosec land
2019-05-07 06:20

Quick-fire summary of the past few days of news Roundup Welcome back, Brits, from your three-day Bank Holiday week. Allow us to catch you up on recent infosec comings and goings.…

Cyptojacking Attacks Target Enterprises With NSA-Linked Exploits
2019-04-26 14:14

A new cyptojacking campaign targeting enterprises in Asia is leveraging the National Security Agency-linked DoublePulsar backdoor and the EternalBlue exploit for network spreading, Symantec...

NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance
2019-04-26 10:47

The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.

NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more
2019-04-26 00:31

An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now? The NSA's mass-logging of people's phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced...

ExtraPulsar backdoor based on leaked NSA code – what you need to know
2019-04-25 14:58

A US security researcher has come up with an open-source Windows backdoor loosely based on NSA attack code that leaked back in 2017.

Ghidra: NSA's Reverse-Engineering Tool
2019-04-08 14:50

Last month, the NSA released Ghidra, a software reverse-engineering tool. Early reactions are uniformly positive. Three news articles....