Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

Hacking is as old as humanity. To date, hacking has exclusively been a human activity. After hacking humanity, AI systems will then hack other AI systems, and humans will be little more than collateral damage. Most of these hacks don’t even require major research breakthroughs in AI. Not for long.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government. And they seem to primarily be hacking regionally. Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. Lots of details in the news articles.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Department of Agriculture, was among the affected organizations, raising fears that data on thousands of government employees may have been compromised. […]. In other words, the same sloppy and corrupt practices that allowed this massive cybersecurity hack made Bravo a billionaire.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2025

The US governments cybersecurity and law enforcement revealed that Chinese threat actors used at least two sophisticated exploit chains to compromise Ivanti Cloud Service Appliances (CSA). is end-of-life and no longer receives security updates, for this reason, these instances are exposed to hack.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

The New York Times has an in-depth article on the latest information about the SolarWinds hack (not a great name, since it’s much more far-reaching than that). There is also no indication yet that any human intelligence alerted the United States to the hacking. Its chief executive, Kevin B.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

government officials. telecoms, compromising networks to steal call records and access private communications, mainly of government and political figures. A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers is still ongoing, government experts are assessing its scope.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Like other spyware makers, Paragon’s hacking software is used by government clients and WhatsApp said it had not been able to identify the clients who ordered the alleged attacks. ” It is not clear who was behind the attack.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Over the past few weeks, three of the longest running and most venerated Russian-language online forums serving thousands of experienced cybercriminals have been hacked. A note posted by a Verified forum administrator concerning the hack of its registrar in January. The forum was hacked through the domain registrar.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. The web shell gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

US CFPB warns employees to avoid work-related mobile calls and texts following China-linked Salt Typhoon hack over security concerns. The US government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) advises employees to avoid using cellphones for work after China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon hackers breached major telecom providers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

government officials. telecoms, compromising networks to steal call records and access private communications, mainly of government and political figures. A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers is still ongoing, government experts are assessing its scope.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Something this complex and impressive implies that a government is behind this. North Korea is the government we know that hacks cryptocurrency in order to fund its operations. Aqua Security researchers have also observed the malware serving as a backdoor to install other families of malware.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 16, 2023

The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know who was behind the hack. We worked with external security experts and the National Cyber Security Centre to investigate and secure our systems.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law—CALEA—since 1994. It’s a weird story.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

China Hacks Canada too, Says CCCS appeared first on Security Boulevard. Plus brillants exploits: Canadian Centre for Cyber Security fingers Chinese state sponsored hackers. The post Ô!

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack by the Chinese government that accessed the emails of senior U.S. government officials. From the executive summary: The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida. ANALYSIS Data brokers like National Public Data typically get their information by scouring federal, state and local government records.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 11, 2025

. […] According to prosecutors, the group as a whole has targeted US state and federal agencies, foreign ministries of countries across Asia, Chinese dissidents, US-based media outlets that have criticized the Chinese government, and most recently the US Treasury, which was breached between September and December of last year.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Intrinsec said its analysis showed Prospero frequently hosts malware operations such as SocGholish and GootLoader , which are spread primarily via fake browser updates on hacked websites and often lay the groundwork for more serious cyber intrusions — including ransomware. A fake browser update page pushing mobile malware.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. .” federal government portal without authorization.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2023

The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware. The simultaneous tapping of the target’s phone by the national intelligence service and the way she was hacked indicate that the spy service and whoever implanted the spyware, known as Predator, were working hand in hand.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It consists of government laws, rulings from the tax authorities, judicial decisions, and legal opinions. That’s not hacking the tax code. It’s hacking the processes that create them: the legislative process that creates tax law. A hack subverts the intent of a system. ML will result in lots of hacks like this.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. government has used court orders to remotely disinfect systems compromised with malware. Today’s operation is not the first time the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2020

FireEye said hacked networks were seen communicating with a malicious domain name — avsvmcloud[.]com 13, cyber incident response firm FireEye published a detailed writeup on the malware infrastructure used in the SolarWinds compromise, presenting evidence that the Orion software was first compromised back in March 2020.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

On June 20, 2024, the group targeted an Indonesian data center causing the disruption of around 210 critical government services, including customs and immigration. Deloitte discovered the hack in March 2017, and according to The Guardian, the attackers may have had access to the company systems since October or November 2016.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

government indicted Matveev as a top ransomware purveyor a year later, offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. Last week, the Russian government reportedly arrested Matveev and charged him with creating malware used to extort companies. government’s “Wanted” poster for him.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The post Schneider Electric Confirms Ransom Hack — Hellcat Demands French Bread as ‘Joke’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. That’s a lot of pain: $125,000 ransom seems small—but why do the scrotes want it paid in baguettes?

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 16, 2023

Cellebrite is an cyberweapons arms manufacturer that sells smartphone forensic software to governments around the world. MSAB is a Swedish company that does the same thing. Someone has released software and documentation from both companies.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Financially-motivated threat actors hacked Uganda ‘s central bank system, government officials confirmed this week. A senior government official at the finance ministry confirmed that attackers compromised some central bank accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2025

The company exclusively sells exploits to the Russian government and local firms. In September 2024, Ukraines National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity (NCCC) banned the Telegram messaging app on government agencies, military, and critical infrastructure, due to national security concerns. continues the announcement.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2024

VMware addressed a remote code execution flaw, demonstrated in a Chinese hacking contest, for the second time in two months. During the 2024 Matrix Cup hacking contest in China, zbl & srs of team TZL demonstrated the vulnerability. ” Chinese law requires researchers to disclose zero-day vulnerabilities to the government. .”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. police as part of an FBI investigation into the MGM hack. Image: Amitai Cohen twitter.com/amitaico.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Texas bans DeepSeek and RedNote on government devices to block Chinese data-harvesting AI, citing security risks. Texas and other states banned TikTok on government devices. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,DeepSeek)

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Gunnebo Group is a Swedish multinational company that provides physical security to a variety of customers globally, including banks, government agencies, airports, casinos, jewelry stores, tax agencies and even nuclear power plants. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. and its employee Guan Tianfeng for hacking U.S. reads the report published by Sophos.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 20, 2025

The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of spyware developed by Israeli company Paragon Solutions, according to a new report from The Citizen Lab.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

A Ghostwriter campaign using a new variant of PicassoLoader targets opposition activists in Belarus, and Ukrainian military and government organizations. SentinelLABS observed a new Ghostwriter campaign targeting Belarusian opposition activists and Ukrainian military and government entities with a new variant of PicassoLoader.

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