2 week agoSeveral online services including Spotify, Snapchat and Etsy have been experiencing international outages due to a Google Cloud Networking technical fault; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering
2 week agoMultiple Internet services are down or having issues with access
Reports of issues with Snapchat, Spotify and Discord
The Belarusian government had an impact on the leakage of correspondence of Polish politicians behind Ghostwriter hacker group - according to a published report by an American company dealing with cybersecurity
2 week agoFBI Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran tells Congress, "We have not seen a decrease in ransomware attacks in the past couple of months originating from Russia"
2 week agoThe 32bit version of CVE-2021-1732 was recently uploaded to Virus Total from Pakistan. The 0-day exploit was used by Bitter APT and developed by the US-based offensive company Exodus Intelligence (aka "Moses")
Facebook says hackers in Pakistan targeted Afghan users amid government collapse
Estimated cost of ransomware attacks on both public and private institutions in US was $19.5 billion in 2020, per @RepMaloney, who has hearing at 10a on ransomware. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, CISA's Brandon Wales, FBI's Bryan Vorndran testifying
In Singapore, 5.9 million users of the RedDoorz hotel booking service in Southeast Asia reported a data leak
2 week agoMoses-Staff claime to have been able to penetrate cyber infrastructure of the Israeli Israeli government and access to 22 TB 3D files of all areas to an accuracy of 5cm. This video is just a bit of their access
3 week agoThe Ministry of Digital Communications of Russia reported that yesterday a record-breaking cyberattack on the portal of public services was addressed. Experts are still trying to figure out the reasons for today's failure, and the resource has been restored to serviceability.
Lt. Gen. Charles Moore, @US_CYBERCOM on hunt forward ops ahead of 2022: "In some cases, we're very overt about the places that are hot for teams. In some cases . we don't talk about it. That could be based on a military decision on our part, it could be at the request of the partner nations
"We've pulled back close to 30 pieces of new malware that we've been able to share with the global enterprise," Lt. Gen. Charles Moore, @US_CYBERCOM No. 2, says at CyberCon2021 about the command's "hunt forward" operations. Operations have grown from 3 countries at least 14
EU court upholds 2.4-bln-euro fine on Google: statement
United States Cyber Robinhood says email addresses of 5 mln customers exposed in security breach
3 week ago"When I met with President Putin in June, I made clear that the United States would take action to hold cybercriminals accountable. That's what we have done today," says @POTUS in a statement
US: Power outage causing significant flight disruptions at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Reuters: "Five hackers linked to ransomware gang REvil arrested since Feb -Europol"
Bloomberg: In the U.S., a Ukraininan national, Yaroslav Vasinkyi was indicted for his involvement in REvil ransomware attacks, according to court documents unsealed Monday in Dallas
Bloomberg: European authorities on Monday morning announced that they had arrested five people allegedly associated with the Russia-linked REvil ransomware group, which was accused of being behind attacks earlier this year on the meatpacker JBS SA and others
3 week ago9th Circuit Court of Appeals just denied NSO's efforts to dismiss @WhatsApp's lawsuit. Rejected spyware company's claims to foreign sovereign immunity. This lawsuit going forwards is a massive blow to NSO.
3 week agoConfirmed: Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and some WhatsApp and Telegram servers restricted in Ethiopia after leak of national exam papers; incident ongoing
CNN reporting that DOJ will announce this morning that they have seized $6 million from REvil and are seeking to have Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinsky extradited from Poland, where he's being held. Russian Yevgeniy Polyanin also to be charged
On 16 October 2021, Front Line Defenders was contacted by the Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq to report a possible spyware infection targetting the device of one of its Jerusalem-based staff members
3 week agoInternet remains disrupted in Sudan two weeks after a military coup targeted the transitional civilian government. The assault on communications leaves the public without a voice at a critical time, presenting a direct threat to democracy.
Putin had a phone call with CIA director Burns, discussed cybersecurity among other things
Yedioth Ahronoth: Tel Aviv fears lifting immunity from its electronic companies after blacklisting NSO
4 week agoReward of up to $10 million being offered by @StateDept for information on the identities and location of DarkSide ransomware group leaders
Security Service of Ukraine has identified FSB hackers who have carried out more than 5,000 cyberattacks on Ukrainian authorities. Cyberattacks were carried out by the FSB hacker group called ARMAGEDON, which operates in Ukraine. The SBU managed to identify the perpetrators by name
Joint Chiefs chairman General Milley says the military focus on space and cyber — especially with China's rise — is akin to the time between WWI and II, when the world saw the military application of aircraft, mechanized vehicles and the radio
