Cyber Defence

Hackers hit Russian federal agencies

Foreign hackers compromised Russian federal agencies in a digital espionage campaign Russian officials said was unprecedented in scope and sophistication. The little-noticed report – published...

Ransomware hits near pre-Colonial Pipeline levels, data suggests

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Digital extortion attempts are returning to their pre-Colonial Pipeline levels, according to data and interviews with some incident responders, suggesting that the upheaval around...

Biden administration eyes cybersecurity funding after hacks

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The Biden administration on Tuesday detailed how it wants to fund efforts to counter a wave of massive hacks in the wake of this...

Axa division in Asia hit by ransomware cyber attack

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French insurer Axa said on Sunday that one of its businesses in Asia was hit by a ransomware attack, adding that it was investigating...

Colonial pipeline hackers claim breach of three more companies

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The hacking group blamed for crippling a major US pipeline company has claimed responsibility for breaking into three more companies on Wednesday, saying it...

Biden cybersecurity order mandates new rules for govt software

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President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered the creation of an air accident-style cyber review board and the imposition of new software standards for government...

UK to help vulnerable countries against Russia, China cyber threat

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Britain said on Wednesday it would invest 22 million pounds ($31 million) to help vulnerable countries in Africa and the Indo-Pacific build up their...

Analysis: Cyberattack exposes lack of required defenses on US pipelines

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The shutdown of the biggest US fuel pipeline by a ransomware attack highlights a systemic vulnerability: Pipeline operators have no requirement to implement cyber...

Top US fuel pipeline remains days from reopening after cyberattack

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The biggest US gasoline pipeline will not resume full operations for several more days due to a ransomware cyberattack blamed on a shadowy criminal...

Watch out for hackers, Britain’s spy agency tells smart cities

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Cities embracing technology to improve urban life risk falling prey to hackers, Britain’s cyber security agency warned on Friday, urging local authorities to ensure...

Cyber attack shuts down US fuel pipeline ‘jugular,’ Biden briefed

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Top US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline shut its entire network, the source of nearly half of the US East Coast’s fuel supply, after...

US government probes VPN hack within federal agencies, races to find clues

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For at least the third time since the beginning of this year, the US government is investigating a hack against federal agencies that began...

Facebook says Palestinian spies behind hacking campaign

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Facebook says it has disrupted a long-running cyberespionage campaign run by Palestinian intelligence which features spies posing as journalists and the deployment of a...

China-linked hackers used VPN flaw to target US defense industry

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At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American virtual private networking devices to spy on...

White House blames Russian spy agency for SolarWinds hack

The White House said Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, was responsible for the SolarWinds hack, which led to the compromise of nine federal...

Israel says it thwarted foreign cyber attack on defence industry

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Israel said on Wednesday it thwarted a cyber attack on its defence industry by a hacking group known as Lazarus, which the United States...

Swedish prosecutor says Russia’s GRU hacked Sweden’s sports body

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Swedish prosecutors said on Tuesday an investigation showed that Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency had carried out serious data secrecy breaches at Sweden’s sports...

Iran says Natanz nuclear site hit by terrorism – TV

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An incident at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility on Sunday was caused by an act of “nuclear terrorism”, the country’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi...

As US cities embrace tech, cyberattacks pose real-world risks

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The word “cyberattack” usually brings to mind hackers breaking into a company or government agency, wreaking havoc and stealing valuable data. But for an employee...

Leaker says they are offering private details of 500 million Facebook users

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A leaker says they are offering information on more than 500 million Facebook Inc users - including phone numbers and other data - virtually...

Ransomware tops US cyber priorities, Homeland secretary says

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Wednesday that dealing with ransomware will be a top priority, highlighting the growing threat...

Australia’s Nine network hit by suspected cyber attack: source

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Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment was unable to air its Sunday news bulletin from its Sydney headquarters due to “technical difficulties” which a source with...

New wave of ‘hacktivism’ adds twist to cybersecurity woes

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At a time when US agencies and thousands of companies are fighting off major hacking campaigns originating in Russia and China, a different kind...

Leonardo eyes more cyber security deals with EU institutions after parliament contract: exec

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Italy’s Leonardo aims to sign more cyber security deals with European institutions after winning a digital contract with the European Parliament, the head of...

Ukraine accuses Russian hackers of new cyber attack

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Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said on Tuesday it had prevented a large-scale cyber attack by Russian hackers targeting classified government data. The SBU said...

Britain must boost cyber-attack capacity, PM Johnson says

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Britain needs to boost its capacity to conduct cyber attacks on foreign enemies, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said before the publication of a national...

Norway’s parliament hit by new hack attack

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Hackers have infiltrated the Norwegian Parliament’s computer systems and extracted data, officials said on Wednesday, just six months after a previous cyber attack was...

At least ten hacking groups using Microsoft software flaw – researchers

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At least ten different hacking groups are using recently discovered flaws in Microsoft Corp’s mail server software to break in to targets around the...

Verkada surveillance cameras at Tesla, hundreds more businesses breached: hackers

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A small group of hackers viewed live and archived surveillance footage from hundreds of businesses including Tesla Inc by gaining administrative access to camera...

‘Digital authoritarianism’ threatening basic rights in Africa, study says

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From internet shutdowns and online surveillance to social media taxes and arrests for anti-government posts, “digital authoritarianism” is a threat to basic freedoms and...

Mumbai power outage could have been cyber sabotage, says minister

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A power failure that crippled India’s financial capital of Mumbai in western Maharashtra state last year could have been a case of cyber sabotage,...

French minister: Mafia-type gangs likely behind cyber attacks on hospitals

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Mafia-type organisations, often based in eastern Europe, are likely to have been behind a recent wave of cyber attacks on French hospitals, rather than...

Twitter removes hundreds of accounts it says are linked to Iran, Russia, Armenia

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Twitter said on Tuesday it had taken down 373 accounts which it said had ties to Russia, Armenia and Iran and had breached its...

Ukraine accuses Russian networks of new massive cyber attacks

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Ukraine on Monday accused unnamed Russian internet networks of massive attacks on Ukrainian security and defence websites, but gave no details of any damage...

UN experts point finger at North Korea for $281 million cyber theft, KuCoin likely...

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A preliminary United Nations inquiry into the theft of $281 million worth of assets from a cryptocurrency exchange last September “strongly suggests” links to...

Hackers try to contaminate Florida town’s water supply through computer breach

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Hackers broke into the computer system of a facility that treats water for about 15 000 people near Tampa, Florida and sought to add...

Suspected Chinese hackers used SolarWinds bug to spy on US payroll agency – sources

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Suspected Chinese hackers exploited a flaw in software made by SolarWinds Corp to help break into US government computers last year, five people familiar...

Police dismantle world’s ‘most dangerous’ criminal hacking network

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International law enforcement agencies said on Wednesday they had dismantled a criminal hacking scheme used to steal billions of dollars from businesses and private...

US seeks to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts tied to North Korean hacks

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The US government sought on Thursday to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts it said were used by North Korean hackers who stole millions of dollars...

Email security firm Mimecast says hackers hijacked its products to spy on customers

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Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had...

Facebook says it removed record number of disinformation campaigns in December

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Facebook Inc identified and suspended 17 disinformation networks on its platforms in December, representing its largest monthly takedown, the US tech giant said on...

SolarWinds hackers linked to known Russian spying tools, investigators say

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The group behind a global cyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously used by suspected Russian...

US intelligence agencies say Russia likely behind hacking of government agencies

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The office of the US Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday said Russia was “likely” behind a string of hacks identified last month that...

Leonardo hack targeted military plane details, arrest warrant shows

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An investigation into a data theft at Leonardo has found that a hacker working inside the Italian defence group appeared to target details of...

Camera hack at AU headquarters

When diplomats gathered at African Union headquarters earlier this year to prepare for its annual leaders’ summit, employees made a disturbing discovery. Someone was stealing...

US businesses and government, including Homeland Security, hacked

The US Department of Homeland Security and thousands of businesses scrambled to investigate and respond to a sweeping hacking campaign officials suspect was directed...

Suspected Russian hackers spied on US Treasury emails – sources

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Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the US Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar...

Cyber attacks seen on coronavirus vaccine infrastructure -US Senator Peters

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Cyber attacks have been waged against COVID-19 vaccine distribution infrastructure, including a cold-chain storage company, US Senator Gary Peters said on Thursday. “IBM recently released...

Hackers steal Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data in Europe, companies say

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US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed”...

US cybersecurity firm FireEye discloses breach, theft of internal hacking tools

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FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that is has been hacked, possibly by a government, leading...