The Gunra ransomware gang is breaching critical infrastructure organizations through vulnerabilities in popular brands of firewalls, the FBI and South Koreaβs government warned.
The incident occurred on the same day as coordinated cyberattacks struck more than 30 other renewable energy installations and a larger heat plant, as Poland publicly disclosed in January.
Two Democratic senators introduced legislation that would allocate $300 million each year to fund cybersecurity improvements for the water and wastewater sector.
Ukraineβs computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, said Saturday that the campaign has been running since at least May and is linked to Sandworm, the notorious hacking unit associated with Russiaβs GRU military intelligence agency.
The money will be used to create a fund to mitigate social media harms, including by carving out $420 million for treatment for New Mexico youth who have been hurt on the platforms.
IEH Corporation β which produces specialized products used in military satellites, missiles and fighter jets β said it discovered a cyberattack on Tuesday and immediately tried to contain it.
President Donald Trump has talked with Chinese President Xi Jinping about Southeast Asian scam compounds, a State Department official told senators at a hearing on the transnational issue.
Three Chinese telecommunications giants continue to have footholds in the U.S. internet ecosystem despite their alleged role in previous Chinese hacking campaigns, a House committee report concluded.
An artificial intelligence agent built by Anthropic independently planted malicious code in a real software project and sent phishing emails to developers during a U.K. government security evaluation, according to Britainβs AI Security Institute.
As Chief of Defence Intelligence, General Sir Jim Hockenhull decided to declassify and publish what London knew of Russiaβs plans to invade Ukraine, down to a map of the routes its forces would take.
The designation, announced last week, came a day after Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) charged Durov with aiding terrorist activity and said it would seek to place him on an international wanted list. The agency accused Telegram of failing to remove channels and bots allegedly used by Ukrainian intelligence, as well as terrorist and extremist groups.
Seeking to protect users' iCloud accounts, Apple is reportedly mounting a new challenge to British legal demands for ways around the company's Advanced Data Protection feature.
A cyberattack compromised tens of thousands of records related to companies, foundations and trusts in Liechtenstein, prompting the government to to form a βcrisis unitβ to address the breach.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a public alert on Thursday that facilities should βremove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible."
The outpost will have its own director, though no one has yet been named for the post, and support the commandβs nascent Cyber Warfare Innovation Center (CIWC).
Cyberattack tools and infrastructure used by North Koreaβs Lazarus Group appear to have been shared with ransomware criminals targeting South Korean organizations β further evidence of deepening entanglement between Pyongyang-backed hackers and the ransomware ecosystem.
Cybercriminals are attempting to extort Britainβs Department for Education (DfE) after compromising what the hackers said was more than 600,000 pieces of data allegedly including names, email addresses and phone numbers.
Russia is seeking to place Telegram founder Pavel Durov on an international wanted list, alleging that the app has been used by Ukrainian intelligence to organize terrorist attacks and conduct espionage inside Russia.
Popular telehealth provider Hims & Hers "shared consumersβ sensitive health information with third-party advertising platforms such as Meta and Snap despite promising to protect patient privacy," the federal government alleges.