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A threat actor believed to be working on behalf of Chinese state-sponsored interests was recently observed targeting a Russia-based defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. Rubin Design Bureau is a submarine design center located in Saint Petersburg, accounting for the design of over 85% of submarines in the Soviet and Russian Navy since its origins in 1901, including several generations of strategic missile cruiser submarines.
Iran blamed Israel on Monday for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged its centrifuges, an assault that imperils ongoing talks over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal and brings a shadow war between the two countries into the light. "My policy as prime minister of Israel is clear: I will never allow Iran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating Israel," Netanyahu said.
Iran on Sunday described a blackout at its underground Natanz atomic facility an act of "Nuclear terrorism," raising regional tensions as world powers and Tehran continue to negotiate over its tattered nuclear deal. Ali Akbar Salehi, the American-educated head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who once served as the country's foreign minister, offered what appeared to be the harshest comments of his long career, which included the assassination of nuclear scientists a decade ago.
Britain's 2021 Defence Review states that the nation will not use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 1968. Around the same time, the UK Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC MP, said, "The UK considers it is clear that cyber operations that result in, or present an imminent threat of, death and destruction on an equivalent scale to an armed attack will give rise to an inherent right to take action in self-defense, as recognized in Article 51 of the UN Charter."
Some jokingly said the cryptic tweet, ";l;;gmlxzssaw," was a US nuclear launch code. Now the US Strategic Command, which runs the country's powerful nuclear weapons force, says the enigmatic posting on its Twitter account in fact came from the hands of a precocious kid.
Researchers have uncovered two novel Android surveillanceware families being used by an advanced persistent threat group to target military, nuclear and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir. The two malware families, which researchers call "Hornbill" and "SunBird," have sophisticated capabilities to exfiltrate SMS messages, encrypted messaging app content and geolocation, as well as other types of sensitive information.
The Energy Department and its National Nuclear Security Administration, which is the agency that maintains the U.S. nuclear stockpile, have been compromised as part of the widespread cyberattack uncovered this week stemming from the massive SolarWinds hack. An exclusive report by Politico cited DoE official sources who said that their department was infiltrated by the cyberattackers, including hits on the NNSA; the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which has oversight for the entire department; the Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories in Washington and New Mexico; and the Richland Field Office of the DoE. The DoE confirmed its compromise on Friday.
Nation-state hackers have breached the networks of the National Nuclear Security Administration and the US Department of Energy. NNSA is a semi-autonomous government agency responsible for maintaining and securing the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
Nation-state hackers have breached the networks of the National Nuclear Security Administration and the US Department of Energy. NNSA is a semi-autonomous government agency responsible for maintaining and securing the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
We have not yet seen any as overt bills as this that directly go to saying encryption out loud. One of these more recent related bills that we're seeing is the EARN IT act.