Category: CyberWarfare / ExoWarfare

Over $200 million worth of users’ funds could have been at risk if the whitehat had chosen to exploit the vulnerability for personal gain instead of reporting it to developers. On Tuesday, Ethereum (ETH) bridging and scaling solution Aurora announced it had paid out a $6 million bounty to ethical security hacker pwning.eth, who discovered…

Cybersecurity Market worth over $400 Bn by 2027 IBM to Acquire Randori for Attack Surface Management Tech Technology giant IBM has announced plans to acquire early-stage attack surface management startup Randori in a deal that signals a major expansion of Big Blue’s cybersecurity ambitions. Randori, a Boston area startup with a well-established reputation in the…

By Kevin Townsend on February 24, 2022 A conversation with Marcus Willett, former director of cyber at GCHQ On the morning of February 22, 2022, the world woke to the news that Russia had moved troops into two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine. At the time of writing, it is not yet a full invasion of Ukraine,…

The war in Ukraine is not following its expected course. The Russian army has not simply marched across the country, and the invasion was not accompanied by a massive increase in cyber operations aimed against Ukrainian critical infrastructure. This could all change in a moment – but for now the Russia/Ukraine conflict is likely to redefine the…

By Associated Press on June 03, 2022 On Ukraine’s battlefields, the simple act of powering up a cellphone can beckon a rain of deathly skyfall. Artillery radar and remote controls for unmanned aerial vehicles may also invite fiery shrapnel showers. This is electronic warfare, a critical but largely invisible aspect of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Military commanders…

curated Cyber Security news – Security Week on 03 DEC 2021 An analysis of 17 espionage frameworks designed to target air-gapped networks shows that all of them leverage USB drives and all target Windows exclusively, ESET reports. The list was created over the course of 15 years, but the last four of the frameworks emerged…

Kills ~86% of all RansomWare Today at Black Hat London, Zero Networks announced the release of its RPC firewall – also dubbed the ‘ransomware kill switch’ – into open source. The tool provides granular control over RPC, capable of blocking the use of lateral movement hacker tools and stopping almost all ransomware in its tracks.…

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Rob Joyce, Chief, Tailored Access Operations, National Security Agency From his role as the Chief of NSA’s Tailored Access Operation, home of the hackers at NSA, Mr. Joyce talks about the security practices and capabilities that most effectively frustrate people seeking to exploit networks. Rob Joyce began serving as the Chief of the National Security…

Cheap, easy and prolific, the new version of the old FormBook form-stealer and keylogger has added Mac users to its hit list, and it’s selling like hotcakes. There’s a new version of the old FormBook form-stealer and keylogger that’s added Mac users to its hit list, and it’s selling like hotcakes on underground markets for…

A counterfeit check image [redacted] that was intended for a person helping this fraud gang print and mail phony checks tied to a raft of email-based scams. One fraud-fighting group is intercepting hundreds to thousands of these per day. By Brian Krebs – Krebs on Security Imagine waking up each morning knowing the identities of…

Federal investigators focused not on offensive hacking efforts or surveilling communications, but on the transactions using cryptocurrency. The Department of Justice said today that it has taken down the massive dark web child-porn site Welcome to Video. The site generated and distributed exploitative content, and had infrastructure in place that could have supported up to…

Chainalysis CTO Gurvais Grigg on the rise in ransomware, and what companies should be doing to protect themselves. by David Pierce – June 16, 2021 After more than two decades at the FBI, Gurvais Grigg was looking for something to do post-retirement. So he picked … cryptocurrency and financial crimes. Grigg is now the global…

They weren’t the people you’d peg for success in the world of finance and technology: a group of young men from a small city in an agricultural region of Romania. But they were clever and they had grit — and a unique skill set. They learned everything they could about banking technology, built a business…