Security News

NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty in Embarrassing Leak Case
2018-01-07 15:47

A former contractor for the US National Security Agency's elite hacking group has agreed to plead guilty to removing classified documents in a case that highlighted a series of disastrous leaks of...

"Zealot" Apache Struts Attacks Abuses NSA Exploits
2017-12-18 15:47

A sophisticated multi-staged Apache Struts cyber attack campaign is abusing NSA-linked exploits to target internal networks, researchers from F5 Networks have discovered. read more

Event Logs Manipulated With NSA Hacking Tool Recoverable
2017-12-11 18:29

Researchers at security firm Fox-IT have developed a tool that allows investigators to detect the use of specific NSA-linked malware and recover event log data it may have deleted from a machine. read more

Here's the NSA Employee Who Kept Top Secret Documents at Home
2017-12-02 10:18

A former employee—who worked for an elite hacking group operated by the U.S. National Security Agency—pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified documents home, which were later...

NSA "Red Disk" Data Leak
2017-11-30 12:44

ZDNet is reporting about another data leak, this one from US Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), which is also within to the NSA. The disk image, when unpacked and loaded, is a...

Kaspersky Blames NSA Analyst For U.S. Intel Leak
2017-11-17 14:18

Anti-virus Vendor Says It Collected, Then Deleted Four Classified DocumentsKaspersky Lab says it "inadvertently" scooped up classified U.S. documents and code from an NSA analyst's home computer,...

Kaspersky: NSA Worker's Computer Was Already Infested With Malware
2017-11-17 05:10

Refuting allegations that its anti-virus product helped Russian spies steal classified files from an NSA employee's laptop, Kaspersky Lab has released more findings that suggest the computer in...

Kaspersky Shares More Details on NSA Incident
2017-11-16 15:20

Kaspersky Lab on Thursday shared more details from its investigation into reports claiming that Russian hackers stole data belonging to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) by exploiting the...

Long Article on NSA and the Shadow Brokers
2017-11-14 12:08

The New York Times just published a long article on the Shadow Brokers and their effects on NSA operations. Summary: it's been an operational disaster, the NSA still doesn't know who did it or...

Bad Rabbit Ransomware Uses Leaked 'EternalRomance' NSA Exploit to Spread
2017-10-27 03:57

A new widespread ransomware worm, known as "Bad Rabbit," that hit over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia and Ukraine this week leverages a stolen NSA exploit released by the Shadow...