UK sanctions Russian hackers, spies as US weighs its own punishments for Russia
As the U.S. government contemplates additional sanctions on Moscow, the United Kingdom went ahead and levied its own Friday against what it said was a…
Category: Cyberscoop
United Natural Foods loses up to $400M in sales after cyberattack
United Natural Foods said the cyberattack that prompted the food distributor and wholesaler to completely shut down its network last month resulted in lost sales…
Ryuk ransomware operator extradited to US, faces five years in federal prison
An Armenian national is in federal custody and faces charges stemming from their alleged involvement in a spree of attacks in 2019 and 2020 involving…
House hearing will use Stuxnet to search for novel ways to confront OT cyberthreats
Congress is set to revisit Stuxnet — the malware that wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear program 15 years ago — next week in the hopes…
SonicWall customers hit by fresh, ongoing attacks targeting fully patched SMA 100 devices
A financially motivated threat group is attacking organizations using fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 100 series appliances, Google Threat Intelligence Group said in…
Senate Democrats seek answers on Trump overhaul of immigrant database to find noncitizen voters
As the Department of Homeland Security seeks to transform a federal database for immigrant benefits into a supercharged database to search for noncitizen voters, a…
Pro-Russian DDoS group NoName057(16) disrupted by international law enforcement operation
An international law enforcement operation conducted this week targeted the members of and infrastructure used by NoName057(16), a pro-Russian hacktivist group that has conducted distributed…
Former Army soldier pleads guilty to widespread attack spree linked to AT&T, Snowflake and others
A 21-year-old former Army soldier pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from a series of attacks and extortion attempts last year on telecommunications companies, including…
AsyncRAT seeds family of more than 30 remote access trojans
AsyncRAT, the most prevalent remote access trojan observed in the wild, has spawned more than 30 forks and variants that increase the impact of the…
Waltz brushes off SignalGate questions, points finger at CISA
Former White House national security adviser Mike Waltz brushed aside criticisms Tuesday that he put sensitive military operations at risk by holding discussions about military…
CitrixBleed 2 beckons sweeping alarm as exploits spread across the globe
Authorities and researchers are intensifying warnings about active exploitation and pervasive scanning of a critical vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Citrix NetScaler products. There is…
House passes bill to formalize NTIA’s cyber role following Salt Typhoon attacks
As cyber officials work to contain Salt Typhoon inside U.S. telecom networks, the House on Monday passed a bill that would officially designate one federal…