The US-CERT warning: APTs are Targeting IT Service Provider Customers
The goals are cyber espionage and intellectual property theft against US critical infrastructure sectors. From IT to Energy and Healthcare.
Cyber Security, Trump unveils the new US National Cyber Strategy
It’s structured around 4 pillars: Protect and Promote America, Preserve Paece, and Advance Influence. Aim: counter cybercrime and foreign malicious actors.
Huge data breach for British Airways. Cybercrime or state-sponsored hackers?
BA: the cyber attack involved 380,000 credit cards, a typical cyber criminals target. But UK worked with US to catch Lazarus hackers, linked to North Korea.
The cybercrime group Carbanak, aka Cobalt and FIN7, is not yet defeated
The Carbanak Group, aka Cobalt Group and FIN7, is not yet defeated. The cybercrime gang just tried to break into Russian and Romanian banks with spear-phishing emails loaded with dual malicious links The Carbanak Group, aka Cobalt Group and FIN7,…
Russian Trolls weaponized the vaccine debate in the Infowar against US
A George Washington University study on Weaponized Health Communication:The Russian trolls promoted discord to erode public consensus on vaccination.
Facebook and Instagram bloc over 650 accounts linked to Russia and Iran
The social network, thanks of Fireeye tips, catches the Liberty Front Press linked to Tehran. Then remove pages, group and accounts identified as Moscow intelligence.
US, first report for the Justice Department’s Cyber-Digital Task Force
The main issue is the cyber security of the elections against foreign cyber attacks. Focus also on cybercrime, use of Internet to recruit and spread violence.
Ukraine, OSCE: Russia is using electronic warfare systems in Donbas
The US: More evidence Moscow’s military is orchestrating the conflict in the region. The EW systems could have a double purpose: testing and disturbing.
US, will Iran launch a cyber warfare campaign as a retaliation over the sanctions?
Tehran could attack economic targets as "eye for the eye" with an enlarged cyber army, but not too much destructive. It can’t loose relations with EU.
How the US are countering the foreign cyber threats to the Mid Term Elections
The FBI is working with an operational strategy of 3 pillars. The NSA gives support, and intelligence and informations on the cyber foreign adversaries.