Security News

Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law
2024-12-11 23:03

Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks US telecoms carriers would be required to implement minimum cyber security standards and ensure their systems are not susceptible to hacks...

Russian cyber spies hide behind other hackers to target Ukraine
2024-12-11 17:00

Russian cyber-espionage group Turla, aka "Secret Blizzard," is utilizing other threat actors' infrastructure to target Ukrainian military devices connected via Starlink. [...]

T-Mobile US CSO: Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career'
2024-12-05 00:52

Security chief talks to El Reg as Feds urge everyone to use encrypted chat interview While Chinese-government-backed spies maintained access to US telecommunications providers' networks for months...

NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
2024-11-27 12:05

The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries...

Russian spies may have moved in next door to target your network
2024-11-25 01:30

Plus: Microsoft seizes phishing domains; Helldown finds new targets; Illegal streaming with Jupyter, and more Infosec in brief Not to make you paranoid, but that business across the street could,...

Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive
2024-10-30 12:40

The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel Microsoft says a mass phishing campaign by Russia's foreign intelligence services (SVR) is now in its second...

China's Salt Typhoon cyber spies are deep inside US ISPs
2024-09-25 21:46

Expecting a longer storm season this year? Another Beijing-linked cyberspy crew, this one dubbed Salt Typhoon, has reportedly been spotted on networks belonging to US internet service providers in...

Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT
2024-09-18 17:00

Getting sloppy, Xi Exclusive Chinese state-sponsored spies have been spotted inside a global engineering firm's network, having gained initial entry using an admin portal's default credentials on...

Uncle Sam charges Russian GRU cyber-spies behind 'WhisperGate intrusions'
2024-09-05 19:44

Feds post $10M bounty for each of the six's whereabouts The US today charged five Russian military intelligence officers and one civilian for their alleged involvement with the data-wiping...

China-linked cyber-spies infect Russian govt, IT sector
2024-08-15 02:50

Cyber-spies suspected of connections with China have infected "Dozens" of computers belonging to Russian government agencies and IT providers with backdoors and trojans since late July, according to Kaspersky. The Russia-based security biz claimed the malware used in the ongoing, targeted attacks - dubbed EastWind - has links to two China-nexus groups tracked as APT27 and APT31.