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U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that a cyberattack was launched in 2018 against a Russian company believed to be behind some major disinformation campaigns, including ones targeting elections. The Washington Post reported in February 2019 that the U.S. Cyber Command, supported by the NSA, had launched an attack on the Internet Research Agency, a Saint Petersburg-based firm that is said to conduct online influence operations for the Russian government.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
An analysis of the "Official Trump 2020" application revealed that keys to various parts of the app were being exposed to attacks, Website Planet reports. While investigating the app, Website Planet's cybersecurity analysts Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered that the Android APK was exposing information such as Twitter application keys and secrets, Google apps and maps keys, and Branch.io keys.
Google's threat analysts have identified state-level attacks from China. I hope both campaigns are working under the assumption that everything they say and do will be dumped on the Internet before the election.
Campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden have been targeted recently by foreign hackers, Google researchers said Thursday, highlighting persistent data security concerns ahead of the November US election. A tweet from Google's threat analysis chief Shane Huntley said the internet giant warned the Biden campaign about "Phishing" efforts from China and the Trump campaign from Iran.
With the U.S. presidential election months away, advanced persistent threat groups are targeting the campaign staffers of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden in recent phishing attacks. A China-linked APT group targeted Biden's campaign staff, while an Iran-linked APT targeted Trump's.
House Democrats on Wednesday decided to abandon a vote on the reauthorization of several government surveillance programs under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. A similar amendment proposed earlier this week by Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Warren Davidson saw broad support in the House of Representatives, but the vote on the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act was abandoned on Wednesday, after both the Department of Justice and President Donald Trump publicly opposed the bill.
The hackers have now turned to Dark Web auction houses instead. "Putting the data out there for free to do extortion or to leverage the extortion isn't effective because now the police are involved, the FBI is involved, the Secret Service is involved because Trump was mentioned. They then turned to this auction house called Jokerbuzz," Turnage said. Because of DarkOwl's work offering access to the world's largest dataset of Dark Net and deep web content, the company's researchers have seen the files related to Lady Gaga, Sherwood, and the initial documents related to President Trump.
As US citizens wait for President Trump's final decision about whether quarantine will be over by Easter, malware peddlers have already "Decided": quarantine will be prolonged until August 2020. Researchers with anti-phishing startup Inky have spotted two phishing emails purportedly coming from the White House, "Signed" by President Trump.
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill that provides $1 billion to help small telecom providers replace equipment made by China's Huawei and ZTE. The U.S. government considers the Chinese companies a security risk and has pushed its allies not to use Huawei equipment in next-generation cellular networks, known as 5G. Both companies have denied that China uses their products for spying. The Federal Communications Commission has already voted to bar U.S. phone companies from using government subsidies for equipment from the two Chinese companies.