Two individuals behind the Anonymous Sudan cybercriminal group were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice, which acknowledged AWS for its contributions.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the takedown of Anonymous Sudan, a prolific entity in the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) space who are known especially for their politically motivated hacktivism. This takedown is a huge step toward making the internet a safer place, and it required significant effort from multiple parties, including Akamai.
A federal grand jury indictment unsealed today charges two Sudanese nationals with operating and controlling Anonymous Sudan, an online cybercriminal group responsible for tens of thousands of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against critical infrastructure, corporate networks, and government agencies in the United States and around the world.
National Public Data, a company responsible for a massive leak of Social Security numbers in the summer, has filed for bankruptcy. That's unsurprising.
The FBI and Microsoft have seized more than 100 web domains they say Russian intelligence used for cyber-espionage, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.
China reportedly hacked the wiretap systems required by U.S. internet providers under a 1994 U.S. wiretapping law.
Homeland Security Investigations is stopping hacks before they occur.
AT&T and Verizon are among the broadband providers that were breached
FBI investigating call in which AI appearing to be Dmytro Kuleba asked Ben Cardin ‘politically charged questions’
One of the largest hospitals in West Texas has been forced to divert ambulances after a ransomware attack shut down many of its systems last Thursday.
The University Medical Center Health System in Lubbock confirmed on Friday that IT outages are being caused by a ransomware incident.
China-linked threat actors compromised some U.S. internet service providers as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon.
The state-sponsored hackers aimed at gathering intelligence from the targets or carrying out disruptive cyberattacks.
The Wall Street Journal reported that experts are investigating into the security breached to determine if the attackers gained access to Cisco Systems routers, which are core network components of the ISP infrastructures.
The U.S. intelligence community on Monday said Russia is responsible for recent videos shared on social media that sought to denigrate Vice President Kamala Harris, including one that tried to implicate her in a hit-and-run accident.
Spy agencies also assess that Russian influence actors were responsible for altering videos of the vice president's speeches — behavior consistent with Moscow’s broader efforts to boost former President Donald Trump’s candidacy and disparage Harris and the Democratic Party, an official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said during a press briefing.
Operation Kraken is a sign that organized criminals are moving away from larger encrypted phone companies to a decentralized collection of smaller players and consumer access apps that the rest of us use.
The cyberattack over Labor Day weekend severely hampered operations at Seattle's airport, which is managed by the Port of Seattle.
With the US election on the horizon, it’s a good time to explore the concept of social media weaponization and its use in manipulating public opinion.
À l'occasion d'un communiqué de presse publié le 14 août 2024, le Conseil fédéral a approuvé le Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) et arrêté son en vigueur au 15 septembre 2024. Selon cette décision, les entreprises américaines participant au Swiss-U.S. DPF garantissent un niveau adéquat de protection des données en vertu de la LPD, de sorte que les données personnelles peuvent être transférées aux entreprises américaines participantes sans avoir à conclure de clauses contractuelles types adoptées par la Commission Européenne (SCC) et sans qu'il soit nécessaire de procéder à une analyse d'impact du transfert de données.
Russia is increasingly turning to American social media stars to covertly influence voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to U.S. officials and recently unveiled criminal charges.
“What we see them doing is relying on witting and unwitting Americans to seed, promote and add credibility to narratives that serve these foreign actors’ interest,” a senior intelligence official said in a briefing on Friday. “These foreign countries typically calculate that Americans are more likely to believe other Americans’ views.”
Attackers roamed the systems of Avis Car Rental, a major car rental service provider, for several days, accessing data of nearly 300,000 individuals.
Malicious actors breached Avis systems on August 3rd and roamed inside the system for three days until the company secured its networks.
The company’s data breach notification letter, submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, states that Avis discovered the breach on August 5th, indicating it took at least one day to kick the malicious actors out.
The hackers were working with a unit in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, according to the DOJ.
U.S. seizes 32 Russian propaganda domains influencing U.S. elections, targets Kremlin-backed disinformation efforts.
