Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Justice Department this week indicted seven Chinese nationals for a decade-long hacking spree that targeted more than 100 high-tech and online gaming companies. The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. Image: FBI.

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Antivirus Hacking Government Software 360

ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

I think event leaves open yet another possibility, that perhaps we’ve had many little digital pearl harbors already, such as the massive denial of service attack against Estonia, but we didn’t realize it at the time. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. But most of us failed.

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Cybercrime Government Ransomware Hacking 40

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2019

Related: How botnets gave Trump 6 million faked followers To put it plainly, this represented a spike in cyber attacks bouncing through ordinary Internet-connected devices humming away in homes across America. These attacks were carried out by cyber criminals leveraging an insidious new attack tool: bulletproof proxies.

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