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'Four horsemen of cyber' look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command
2024-05-10 13:00

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US Cyber Command boss says China's spooky cyber skills still behind
2023-08-11 05:27

The boss of US Cyber Command has opined that China's cyber and surveillance capabilities are not ahead of, or even comparable to, to those of the United States. "There is a scope-scale sophistication that we ascribe to what China is doing today. Are they getting better? Yes," the commander of US Cyber Command, general Paul Nakasone, told a Thursday event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

US Cyber Command Operations During the 2022 Midterm Elections
2023-01-25 12:00

The head of both US Cyber Command and the NSA, Gen. Paul Nakasone, broadly discussed that first organization's offensive cyber operations during the runup to the 2022 midterm elections. "We did conduct operations persistently to make sure that our foreign adversaries couldn't utilize infrastructure to impact us," said Nakasone.

US Cyber Command spots another 20 malware strains targeting Ukraine
2022-07-21 20:29

US Cyber Command has disclosed 20 new strains of malware among the numerous software nasties and cyberattacks being used against Ukrainian targets over the last few months. In an alert this week, the Pentagon's cyberspace wing made public indicators of compromise associated with various malware strains that were found in Ukrainian networks by the country's security service.

US Cyber Command shored up nine nations' defenses last year
2022-05-04 23:52

US Cyber Command chief General Paul Nakasone said has revealed the agency he leads conducted nine "Hunt forward" operations last year, sending teams to different counties to help them improve their defensive security posture and hunt for cyberthreats. These missions provide "Security for our nation in cyberspace," said Nakasone, who is also director of the National Security Agency, during a Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats at Vanderbilt University.

US Cyber Command Links 'MuddyWater' Hacking Group to Iranian Intelligence
2022-01-13 00:16

The U.S. Cyber Command on Wednesday officially confirmed MuddyWater's ties to the Iranian intelligence apparatus, while simultaneously detailing the various tools and tactics adopted by the espionage actor to burrow into victim networks. "MuddyWater has been seen using a variety of techniques to maintain access to victim networks," USCYBERCOM's Cyber National Mission Force said in a statement.

Jenkins struck by 'Confluenza' as US Cyber Command warns Atlassian flaw 'cannot wait'
2021-09-06 13:51

The Jenkins team issued a reminder over the weekend that one should keep one's systems patched as it found itself with a compromised Confluence service. Although the affected instance of Confluence integrated with the company's identity system, the group said: "At this time we have no reason to believe that any Jenkins releases, plugins, or source code have been affected."

Operating in the Shadows: US Cyber Command
2021-05-25 12:53

If the Pentagon's Cyber Command launches an online attack and nobody knows about it, does it deter anyone? Many Americans are asking what the country's army of cyber warriors are doing after repeated attacks on US computer systems by Chinese, Russian and other hackers.

US Cyber Command Valentine’s Day Cryptography Puzzles
2021-02-15 20:50

The US Cyber Command has released a series of ten Valentine’s Day “Cryptography Challenge Puzzles.” Slashdot thread. Reddit thread. (And here’s the archived link, in case Cyber Command takes the...

US Cyber Command Urges Users to Patch New 'Ping of Death' Windows Flaw
2020-10-15 11:31

The United States Cyber Command warns that users should apply the latest patches for Microsoft software to ensure they won't fall victim to exploitation attempts. The most important of these issues, US Cyber Command points out, is CVE-2020-16898, a critical bug in the Windows TCP/IP stack that can be triggered remotely to potentially achieve remote code execution on the victim machine.