Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Some of us -- myself included -- have proposed lawful government hacking as an alternative to backdoors. A new report from the Center of Internet and Society looks at the security risks of allowing government hacking. This is the canonical lawful hacking paper.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Justice Department announced charges against ten Chinese intelligence agents for hacking into computer systems belonging to U.S. Several prosecutions have been brought against Chinese military and government officials for utilizing hacking as a means to steal intellectual property and business information from high-tech companies.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack by the Chinese government that accessed the emails of senior U.S. government officials. From the executive summary: The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 16, 2023

Permalink The post BSides Sofia 2023 – Vasil Velichkov – Hacking Attacks Against Government Institutions appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to BSides Sofia for publishing their presenter’s tremendous BSides Sofia 2023 content on the organizations’ YouTube channel.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 10, 2022

The post Russian Government Sites Hacked appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Cybercriminals often manipulate hardware or software during the manufacturing stage to implant rootkits or tie in hardware-based spying elements. Attackers can later use these implants to attack the organization they’re after. […].

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2024

Government says victims include the “critical infrastructure sector.” The post Sisense Hacked: CISA Warns Customers at Risk appeared first on Security Boulevard. A hard-coded credential catastrophe: The analytics firm kept big companies’ secrets in an insecure AWS bucket.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The New York Times wrote about a still-unreleased report from Chckpoint and the Miaan Group: The reports, which were reviewed by The New York Times in advance of their release, say that the hackers have successfully infiltrated what were thought to be secure mobile phones and computers belonging to the targets, overcoming obstacles created by encrypted (..)

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Security Boulevard

JULY 20, 2023

A hacking campaign, which began in mid-May, saw Chinese hackers infiltrating US government email accounts, including those of federal agencies such as the State Department and the Department of Commerce. The post Made-In-China Hack Infiltrates the US Government appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Ukrainian government networks were infected via trojanized ISO files posing as legitimate Windows 10 installers and several governmental institutions were hacked. The post Ukrainian Government Hacked Through Malicious Windows ISO Files appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

Hacking is as old as humanity. To date, hacking has exclusively been a human activity. After hacking humanity, AI systems will then hack other AI systems, and humans will be little more than collateral damage. Most of these hacks don’t even require major research breakthroughs in AI. Not for long.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It consists of government laws, rulings from the tax authorities, judicial decisions, and legal opinions. That’s not hacking the tax code. It’s hacking the processes that create them: the legislative process that creates tax law. A hack subverts the intent of a system. ML will result in lots of hacks like this.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 9, 2020

FireEye was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”: During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted and accessed certain Red Team assessment tools that we use to test our customers’ security. government builds purpose-made digital weapons.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2021

State Department employees were hacked with spyware from the infamous NSO Group, and details on a bizarre story about a mother and daughter that face 16 years in prison for […]. The post Life360 Selling Location Data, NSO Group Spyware Hacks Government Employees, Homecoming Queen Contest Hacked appeared first on The Shared Security Show.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Killnet hacking group of Russia is suspected to have disrupted around 20 government websites related to the Japanese government. But the role of Killnet hacking group that is being sponsored by Kremlin is yet to be found out.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The 35-year-old hacker was performing ransomware attacks while working as an IT staff member for the Canadian government. The post Canadian Government IT Employee Sentenced to Prison for Hacking appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The Netwalker Ransomware Gang The NetWalker ransomware gang […].

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2023

The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware. The simultaneous tapping of the target’s phone by the national intelligence service and the way she was hacked indicate that the spy service and whoever implanted the spyware, known as Predator, were working hand in hand.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recently the leak of a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon, exposed Chinese hacking capabilities. Recently someone has leaked on GitHub [ 1 , 2 ] a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese hacking firm, I-Soon.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 28, 2019

The Japanese government's decision to log into users' IoT devices has sparked outrage in Japan. However, the government's plan has its technical merits. Devices in people's homes and on enterprise networks will be tested alike. [.].

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. government has used court orders to remotely disinfect systems compromised with malware. Today’s operation is not the first time the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

Chinese hackers have hacked thousands of Taiwan Government email accounts belonging at least 10 Taiwan government agencies, officials said. Chinese hackers have gained access to around 6,000 email accounts belonging to at least 10 Taiwan government agencies, officials said. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan).

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 9, 2022

Russia says some of its federal agencies' websites were compromised on Tuesday after unknown attackers hacked the stats widget used to track the number of visitors by multiple government agencies. [.].

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. .” federal government portal without authorization.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2022

A newly detected hacking group named Aoquin Dragon from China has been found infiltrating servers from Southeast Asia and Australia. The post Aoquin Dragon from China hacking Australian Government Servers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Department of Agriculture, was among the affected organizations, raising fears that data on thousands of government employees may have been compromised. […]. In other words, the same sloppy and corrupt practices that allowed this massive cybersecurity hack made Bravo a billionaire.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Details on the F12 “hacking” incident of the Missouri state education website and the foolish response from the Missouri governor, Over 30 countries (except China and Russia) meet to fight ransomware globally, and the FBI’s warning about fake unemployment benefit websites. ** Links mentioned on the show ** Gov.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But now, here’s a news story where US employees were found hacking for foreign government. The highlight in this news is that all those who were serving foreign governments were caught guilty and were penalized by the United States Intelligence Community last week.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 29, 2023

A suspected Chinese-nexus hacking group exploited a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to breach government, military, defense and aerospace, high-tech industry, and telecom sectors as part of a global espionage campaign.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

The government sought a court order (under the All Writs Act — an 18th century statute) compelling Apple to develop and. The post Jailbreak or Jail – Is Hacking for the Government A Crime? However, the phone was “locked” using proprietary hardware and software from Apple. appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 24, 2024

Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Canadian government discloses a data breach after threat actors hacked two of its contractors. Data belonging to current and former Government of Canada employees, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police personnel have been also exposed. Both contractors suffered a security breach in October.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Taiwan ‘s government agencies face around five million cyberattacks and probes every day, most of them from China. Around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan Government).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

APT31 (aka Zirconium) is a China-linked APT group that was involved in multiple cyber espionage operations, it made the headlines recently after Check Point Research team discovered that the group used a tool dubbed Jian, which is a clone of NSA Equation Group ‘s “EpMe” hacking tool, years before it was leaked online by Shadow Brokers hackers.

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The Hacker News

JULY 1, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of ongoing attacks coordinated by a suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor targeting the Afghanistan government as part of an espionage campaign that may have had its provenance as far back as 2014.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 24, 2023

The Norwegian government is warning that its ICT platform used by 12 ministries has suffered a cyberattack after hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software. [.]

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2024

CERT Polska warns of a large-scale malware campaign against Polish government institutions conducted by Russia-linked APT28. CERT Polska and CSIRT MON teams issued a warning about a large-scale malware campaign targeting Polish government institutions, allegedly orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT28 group. ” reads the alert.

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