Espionage
Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted
Lots of interesting details in the story: The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the ...
Did You Hire a Spy? Risks and Strategies for Securing Remote Workers
Former Military Intelligence Agents Turned Cybersecurity Experts at CISO Global In today’s high-stakes digital landscape, hiring remotely requires diligence and vigilance. Trust is important, but verifying that trust is non-negotiable. The consequences ...
Response to CISA Advisory (AA24-249A): Russian Military Cyber Actors Target US and Global Critical Infrastructure
AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the CISA Advisory (AA24-249A) published on September 5, 2024, that assesses cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate ...
Finland Blames APT31 Hackers For Parliament Cyber Attack
APT31 Hackers, a Chinese threat actor group, has recently been accused by the Finnish police of attacking the nation’s parliament in 2020. According to recent reports, this attack is said to have ...
AI and Mass Spying
Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, ...
Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store
Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store. An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play ...
Russia Expected to Increase Critical Infrastructure Attacks
Russia’s war strategy increasingly involves cybersecurity, with the country expected to ramp up attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine and countries that are members of NATO, according to Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service ...
Federal Appellate Court Approves ‘Pretext’ Border Search
For almost nine years, Chinese national and U.S. resident Haitao Xiang had been employed by the Monsanto company in St. Louis, Missouri, as a research application engineer specializing in hyperspectral imaging technology ...
When History Repeats | Insider Risk Lessons from the Pentagon Leaks
The arrest of a junior US air national guardsman for taking and sharing classified military intelligence is less a story about data theft or even war. It’s a story about how sensitive ...
Chinese Tech: Banned in DC, but not in the States
There’s a massive loophole in the federal ban on Chinese technology from sus firms such as Huawei and ZTE: It doesn’t stop states from buying it ...
