Security News

FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it
2025-01-17 22:07

Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from...

China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, CISA boss says
2025-01-15 20:30

We are only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg,' Easterly warns Beijing's Salt Typhoon cyberspies had been seen in US government networks before telcos discovered the same foreign intruders in their...

Chinese cyber-spies peek over shoulder of officials probing real-estate deals near American military bases
2025-01-10 21:45

Gee, wonder why Beijing is so keen on the – checks notes – Committee on Foreign Investment in the US Chinese cyber-spies who broke into the US Treasury Department also stole documents from...

Chinese cyber-spies reportedly targeted sanctions intel in US Treasury raid
2025-01-02 22:28

OFAC, Office of the Treasury Secretary feared hit in data-snarfing swoop Chinese spies who compromised the US Treasury Department's workstations reportedly stole data belonging to a government...

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...