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The Straits Times reports: The Belgian federal prosecutor said on Wednesday it had started a probe into alleged Chinese hacking of Belgium’s intelligence service VSSE in November 2023, confirming an earlier report by Belgian daily Le Soir. The pr… Continue reading Belgian prosecutor probes alleged Chinese hacking of intelligence service
Dan Black of Google’s Threat Intelligence Group writes: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interes… Continue reading Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger
Habib Mohammadi reports: A group of unidentified hackers has breached the Taliban’s databases, leaking documents from 21 ministries and government agencies, some of which appear to be classified, according to reports circulating online. The leaked file… Continue reading Hackers target Taliban databases
Dara Kerr reports: DeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app soared to the top of Apple’s App Stor… Continue reading DeepSeek hit with ‘large-scale’ cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
ERR News reports: The European Union on Monday (January 27) imposed sanctions on three members of Russia’s military intelligence (GRU), who conducted a cyberattack against Estonia in May 2020. Estonia named the three GRU members – Yuri Denisov, N… Continue reading EU sanctions 3 GRU members for cyberattacks against Estonia
Svyatenko Tamara On December 19, the most extensive external cyberattack on the state registers of Ukraine in recent times occurred. This was reported by Olha Stefanishyna, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Minister of Jus… Continue reading The state registers of Ukraine have suffered a large-scale cyberattack: details from the Ministry of Justice
State Special Communications / Yelyzaveta Kovtun reports: Hacker group UAC-0185 attempted to attack Ukrainian defense enterprises, as well as the Security and Defense Forces. Hackers used phishing emails for this. As reported in the State Intelligence … Continue reading Cyberwar: Hackers tried to attack UA defense enterprises; UA hits Gazprombank with DDoS
Adam Janofsky reports: Leading U.S. cybersecurity agencies on Tuesday said that Chinese hackers likely still have access to critical telecommunications systems, and published guidance to help engineers and network defenders identify and remove the thre… Continue reading FBI, CISA say Chinese hackers are still lurking in US telecom systems
Bill Toulas reports: Russian state hackers APT28 (Fancy Bear/Forest Blizzard/Sofacy) breached a U.S. company through its enterprise WiFi network while being thousands of miles away, by leveraging a novel technique called “nearest neighbor attack…. Continue reading Hackers breach US firm over Wi-Fi from Russia in ‘Nearest Neighbor Attack’
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Potential Ukrainian military recruits are being targeted with malware and anti-mobilization messaging through legitimate Telegram channels. A report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group attributes the “hybrid … Continue reading Russia Tied to Ukrainian Military Recruit Malware Targeting