Cybersecurity

Chinese "Override Panda" Hackers Resurface With New Espionage Attacks

A Chinese state-sponsored espionage group known as Override Panda has resurfaced in recent weeks with a new phishing attack with the goal of stealing sensitive information. "The Chinese APT used a spear-phishing email to deliver a beacon of a Red Team framework…

Israel Keen to Set up Cyber 'Iron Dome' to Curb Rise in Attacks

Israel's government on Monday ordered communications firms to step up their cyber security efforts in the wake of a rise in attempted hacking attacks. New regulations are currently being implemented in which mandatory and unified standards will have to be met, the…

Briefs Cybercrime Trinidad’s largest supermarket chain crippled by cyberattack

The largest supermarket chain in Trinidad struggled to recover from a cyberattack that caused outages at all of its locations throughout the country this weekend. On Thursday, Massy Stores released a statement saying it was experiencing “technical challenges” with its front…

Chinese cyber-espionage group Moshen Dragon targets Asian telcos

Researchers have identified a new cluster of malicious cyber activity tracked as Moshen Dragon, targeting telecommunication service providers in Central Asia. While this new threat group has some overlaps with "RedFoxtrot" and "Nomad Panda," including the use of…

Google Offers $1.5M Bug Bounty for Android 13 Beta

Google has expanded its bug-bounty program to offer a whopping $1.5 million for a top-notch Android 13 Beta exploit – specifically, for a hack of the Titan M security chip that ships with Pixel phones. Android 13 Beta became available last week to developers and early adopters…

Spy report: 3.4M warrantless searches of US data under FISA last year

The U.S. government disclosed that the FBI conducted as many as 3.4 million warrantless searches of U.S. citizens’ data last year that the National Security Agency had collected. The data was collected and analyzed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA)…

Spain Says Cellphones of Prime Minister and Defense Minister Were Hacked

Data was downloaded from cellphones used by the prime minister and the defense minister of Spain that were infected with powerful spyware known as Pegasus from an Israeli company, the country’s government said on Monday. The revelation that Pegasus reached the highest…

Hackers with Russian ties responsible for RIPTA cyberattack

The ransom note the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority received on Aug. 5 began with a chilling statement. “All of your files are currently encrypted by Conti strain,” the cyberhackers wrote. The next day, RIPTA hired Coveware Inc., a firm that helps entities recover hacked…

Russia reroutes internet in occupied Ukrainian territory through Russian telcos

After knocking out the internet service in Kherson, Ukraine, this weekend, Russian forces reinstated service but routed it through Russia’s network instead of Ukrainian telecommunications infrastructure. Ukrainian officials and internet access monitor…

Researchers find over 400 vulnerabilities in defense industrial base bug bounty effort

A year-long bug bounty program that scrutinized a fraction of the massive U.S. defense industrial base turned up more than 400 valid vulnerabilities, the effort’s organizers announced Monday. Nearly three hundred security researchers from bug bounty vendor…