Collaborate Disseminate
In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA’s Equation Group almost a year before the mysterious Shadow Brokers group leaked… Continue reading Chinese Hackers Used NSA Hacking Tools Before Shadow Brokers Leaked Them
A former National Security Agency contractor—who stole an enormous amount of sensitive information from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades—today changed his plea to guilty.
The theft was labeled as the largest heist… Continue reading Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to 20-Year-Long Theft of Classified Data
Remember “The Shadow Brokers” and the arrest of a former NSA contractor accused of stealing 50 Terabytes of top secret documents from the intelligence agency?
It turns out that, Kaspersky Lab, which has been banned in US government computers over spyi… Continue reading Turns Out Kaspersky Labs Helped FBI Catch Alleged NSA Leaker
A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by Russian hackers.
Nghia Hoan… Continue reading Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home
A 29-year-old former CIA computer programmer who was charged with possession of child pornography last year has now been charged with masterminding the largest leak of classified information in the agency’s history.
Joshua Adam Schulte, who once creat… Continue reading Ex-CIA employee charged with leaking ‘Vault 7’ hacking tools to Wikileaks
A years ago when the mysterious hacking group ‘The Shadow Brokers’ dumped a massive trove of sensitive data stolen from the US intelligence agency NSA, everyone started looking for secret hacking tools and zero-day exploits.
A group of Hungarian secur… Continue reading Leaked NSA Dump Also Contains Tools Agency Used to Track Other Hackers
Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab has taken the United States government to a U.S. federal court for its decision to ban the use of Kaspersky products in federal agencies and departments.
In September 2017, the United States Department of… Continue reading Kaspersky Lab Sues U.S. Government Over Software Ban
A former employee—who worked for an elite hacking group operated by the U.S. National Security Agency—pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified documents home, which were later stolen by Russian hackers.
In a press release published Frid… Continue reading Here’s the NSA Employee Who Kept Top Secret Documents at Home
A new widespread ransomware worm, known as “Bad Rabbit,” that hit over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia and Ukraine this week leverages a stolen NSA exploit released by the Shadow Brokers this April to spread across victims’ networks.
Earl… Continue reading Bad Rabbit Ransomware Uses Leaked ‘EternalRomance’ NSA Exploit to Spread
Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide!
Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a “comprehensive transparency initiative,” to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec community.
Kaspersky launches this initiative days after it was accused of helping, knowingly or unknowingly, Russian
Continue reading Kaspersky Opens Antivirus Source Code for Independent Review to Rebuild Trust