One day at the dawn of the 1980s, an FBI agent in his 30s named Rick Smith walked into the Balboa Café, an ornate, historic watering hole in San Francisco’s leafy Cow Hollow neighborhood. Smith, who was single at the time, lived nearby and regularly frequented the spot.
As he approached the oak wood bar to order a drink he suddenly spotted a familiar face — someone Smith had met about a year before, after the man had walked into the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco. He was Austrian by birth, but a denizen of Silicon Valley, an entrepreneur who operated as a middleman between American tech companies and European countries hungry for the latest hi-tech goods.
Cette nuit, de nouveaux actes de vandalisme viennent perturber l’accès à Internet cette fois-ci. Selon nos informations, des fibres « longhaul » (longues distances, généralement plusieurs centaines de kilomètres) sont coupées à plusieurs endroits, provoquant des perturbations au niveau national. Les fibres relient des grandes villes – Paris, Lille, Strasbourg, Marseille, Lyon… – et servent d’artères pour Internet.
The attack comes a few days after a coordinated arson assault on the French rail network.
Russian military intelligence, the G.R.U., is behind arson attacks aimed at undermining support for Ukraine’s war effort, security officials say.
The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment.
En début de semaine, un lien backbone qui véhicule Internet du nord au sud de la France a été tronçonné près d’Aix-en-Provence. Les conséquences sont mineures, mais interrogent sur la fragilité des infrastructures.
A travers plusieurs mises à jour de projets open source, des développeurs ont manifesté leur opposition à l’invasion russe de l’Ukraine. Si dans certains cas, l’impact se limite à des messages de sensibilisation, certains projets vont jusqu’à inclure des logiciels malveillants.
The volunteers who run open-source software projects are changing the code so that they display anti-war messages—or even wipe entire files.
When code with millions of downloads nukes user files, bad things can happen.
In what's an act of deliberate sabotage, the developer behind the popular "node-ipc" NPM package shipped a new tampered version to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, raising concerns about security in the open-source and the software supply chain.
Western intelligence agencies are investigating a cyberattack by unidentified hackers that disrupted broadband satellite internet access in Ukraine coinciding with Russia's invasion, according to three people with direct knowledge of the incident.
Des milliers de particuliers et d’entreprises européennes sont sans connexion depuis le 24 février. De plus en plus d’éléments pointent vers le sabotage d’un satellite, en lien avec le conflit ukrainien.
A Ukrainian cyber guerrilla warfare group plans to launch digital sabotage attacks against critical Russian infrastructure such as railways and the electricity grid, to strike back at Moscow over its invasion, a hacker team coordinator told Reuters.
