FBI: Iranian hackers targeting opponents with Telegram malware
Iranian government-connected groups are deploying malware via the Telegram messaging app, taking aim at dissidents and other opponents of Tehran around the world, the FBI…
Category: Cyberscoop
State officials, election experts question California sheriff’s seizure of ballots
A California county sheriff and Republican contender for the state’s gubernatorial race has seized 650,000 physical ballots from Riverside County, saying they were part of…
Experts insist Trump administration’s cyber strategy is already paying off
SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration’s two-week old cyber strategy that aims to promote more proactive, offensive actions while bolstering federal networks and critical infrastructure,…
The phone call is the new phishing email
Voice-based phishing, a form of social engineering where attackers call employees or IT help desks under false pretenses in an attempt to gain access to…
Justice Department disrupts botnet networks that hijacked 3 million devices
Authorities seized infrastructure powering four botnets that hijacked a combined three million devices and launched more than 300,000 DDoS attacks collectively, the Justice Department said…
Trio sentenced for facilitating North Korean IT worker scheme from their homes
Three American men were sentenced Friday for crimes they committed in furtherance of North Korea’s vast scheme to get operatives hired at U.S. companies, the…
FBI, CISA issue PSA on Russian intelligence campaign to target messaging apps
Russian intelligence-affiliated hackers have gained access to thousands of users’ messaging apps with a global phishing campaign, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…
Ubiquiti defect poses account takeover risk for UniFi Networking Application users
Researchers and threat hunters are scrambling to contain a maximum-severity defect in Ubiquiti’s UniFi Network Application that attackers could exploit to take over user accounts…
Feds keep eyes peeled for Iran cyberattacks, respond to Stryker breach
Federal cyber officials aren’t seeing a significant change in attacks tied to Iran since the conflict there began, at least not yet, but they are…
North Carolina tech worker found guilty of insider attack netting $2.5M ransom
A 27-year-old North Carolina man was found guilty of six counts of extortion for a series of crimes he committed while working as a data…
Can Zero Trust survive the AI era?
For the past decade, cybersecurity experts in the federal government have argued that trust, or a lack of it, was key to developing effective security…
Cisco’s latest vulnerability spree has a more troubling pattern underneath
Cisco customers have confronted a flood of actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting the vendor’s network edge software since late February, and researchers say that five of…