Collaborate Disseminate
Ping Li gave the Chinese government information about the country’s hacking of a major U.S. company and cyber training materials, the DOJ said.
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Rolling Stone has a long investigative story (non-paywalled version here) about a CIA agent who spent years posing as an Islamic radical.
Unrelated, but also in the “real life spies” file: a fake Sudanese diving resort run by Mossad.
Continue reading Story of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda
Federal prosecutors announced the indictment Thursday of a North Korean hacker accused of carrying out ransomware operations that targeted American health care facilities and used the proceeds of those operations to fund espionage efforts against the U.S. military and defense contractors. Rim Jong Hyok is accused of using malware developed by North Korea’s military intelligence […]
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Beware! Chinese cyberespionage group ChamelGang targets critical infrastructure like aviation and government systems. SentinelOne report reveals potential attacks across Asia. Learn more about ChamelGang’s cyberespionage activities. Continue reading Chinese Espionage Group “ChamelGang” Uses Attacks for Disruption and Data Theft
This move has been coming for a long time.
The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers starting on July 20, with the company only allowed to provide software updates to existing customers through September 29. The ban—the first such action under authorities given to the Commerce Department in 2019—follows years of warnings from the US intelligence community about Kaspersky being a national security threat because Moscow could allegedly commandeer its all-seeing antivirus software to spy on its customers…
The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone.
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US businesses are believed to have recruited thousands of North Korean IT workers, sending earnings (and potentially data) to North Korea.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Arrests made after North Koreans hired for remote tech jobs at US companies
MITRE has shared more details on the recent hack, including the new malware involved in the attack and a timeline of the attacker’s activities.
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Iranian state-sponsored group APT42 is targeting NGOs, government, and intergovernmental organizations with two new backdoors.
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During the Cold War, the US Navy tried to make a secret code out of whale song.
The basic plan was to develop coded messages from recordings of whales, dolphins, sea lions, and seals. The submarine would broadcast the noises and a computer—the Combo Signal Recognizer (CSR)—would detect the specific patterns and decode them on the other end. In theory, this idea was relatively simple. As work progressed, the Navy found a number of complicated problems to overcome, the bulk of which centered on the authenticity of the code itself.
The message structure couldn’t just substitute the moaning of a whale or a crying seal for As and Bs or even whole words. In addition, the sounds Navy technicians recorded between 1959 and 1965 all had natural background noise. With the technology available, it would have been hard to scrub that out. Repeated blasts of the same sounds with identical extra noise would stand out to even untrained sonar operators…