Security News

Google Warns Thousands Each Month of State-Sponsored Attacks
2018-08-21 13:00

Each month, Google sends thousands of warnings to users who might have been targeted in government-backed attacks, even if the attempts have been blocked. read more

Google Offers G Suite Alerts for State-Sponsored Attacks
2018-08-03 14:01

Google this week announced that it can now alert G Suite admins when it believes users have been targeted by government-backed attackers. read more

Researchers Link Several State-Sponsored Chinese Spy Groups
2018-05-07 05:21

Researchers have discovered links between several cyber espionage groups believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government and found that at least some of them may be working from the Xicheng...

Cisco mess from 2017 becomes tool for state-sponsored infrastructure attacks and defacements
2018-04-01 00:00

Sigh. 160,000 un-patched boxen await p0wnage Cisco's Smart Install software has become the vector for a series of infrastructure attacks and politically-motivated defacements.…

Researchers Link CCleaner Attack to State-sponsored Chinese Hackers
2017-10-03 15:18

The sophisticated supply chain attack that resulted in millions of users downloading a backdoored version of the popular CCleaner PC software utility was the work of state-sponsored Chinese...

Russian Outsourcing Provides Plausible Deniability for State-Sponsored Hacking (Security Week)
2017-06-06 12:07

Last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently conceded that patriotic Russian hackers may have been involved in the DNC hacks last year. "If they are patriotically minded, they start...

Yahoo breach was not state-sponsored, researchers claim (Help Net Security)
2016-09-29 19:59

The massive 2014 Yahoo breach isn’t the work of state-sponsored hackers as the company has claimed to believe, say researchers from identity protection and threat intelligence firm InfoArmor....