Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant acknowledged Wednesday that leaked data from the company — files now apparently being used in a cyber-extortion attempt involving a $50 million ransom demand — likely came from one of its contractors. The Saudi Arabian Oil Co., better known as Saudi Aramco, told The Associated Press that it “recently became […]
Cybersecurity
French President Emmanuel Macron leads a list of 14 current or former heads of state who may have been targeted for hacking by clients of the notorious Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, Amnesty International said Tuesday. “The unprecedented revelation … should send a chill down the spine of world leaders,” Amnesty’s secretary general, Agnes Callamard, […]
A consortium of cybersecurity specialists launched on Tuesday an initiative to encourage companies to implement preventive security measures to end abusive online behavior experienced by workers. Respect In Security, launched by Lisa Forte from Red Goat Cyber Security and Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson on July 14 on Twitter, is a long overdue plan that focuses […]
An investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data provides further evidence that military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire outfit, is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents. From a list of more than 50,000 cellphone numbers obtained by the Paris-based journalism […]
The State Department will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of anyone engaged in foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity, including ransomware attacks, against critical U.S. infrastructure. A task force set up by the White House will coordinate efforts to stem the ransomware scourge. The Biden administration is also out […]
Facebook exposed on Thursday an Iranian cyber-spying operation that went after U.S. military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. The tech giant said that group of Iranian hackers, known as Tortoiseshell, created fake social media profiles, and sent targeted malicious links to victims. The links that aimed to infect devices to enable espionage, used different tactics including setting up fake job recruiting sites. Facebook said the hackers tried to direct people to other websites, […]
China’s cyber-watchdog on Friday announced an on-site cybersecurity investigation of ride-hailing service Didi, stepping up scrutiny after earlier criticism of its handling of customer information caused the company’s New York-traded shares to tumble. The on-site inspection comes two weeks after the regulator said it would probe the ride-hailing company over concerns about national security and […]
The agency in charge of Ireland’s cyber security is to get an increased budget and a major staff increase, the Government announced today. The expansion would bring the strength of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) from 25 to 45 within 18 months, with a further promise to increase it to 70 within five years. […]
For 21 years, the software company Kaseya labored in relative obscurity — at least until cybercriminals exploited it in early July for a massive ransomware attack that snarled businesses around the world and escalated U.S.-Russia diplomatic tensions. But it turns out that the recent hack wasn’t the first major cybersecurity problem to hit the Miami-based […]
Governments have enlisted the help of hackers throughout the entirety of the digital age, as user data continues being the target of many institutions, be them governmental or otherwise. These targets not only include state secrets, but also engulf an array of intellectual property as well as academic knowledge. Headlines have previously proved the effectiveness of these […]