“Polizei!” barked the officers who stormed a third-floor apartment in the Austrian capital, moving to intercept a thickset man standing near a kitchen nook. The suspect — a long-serving official in Austria’s security services — sprang toward his cellphone and tried to break it in two, according to Austrian police reports.
Cybersecurity experts say the error enabled the theft of records of nearly 1 billion people, including senior officials, leading to a $200,000 ransom note.
An engineer’s interest in joining what turned out to be a fictitious company led to March’s $540 million Axie Infinity hack.
I had covered this topic in my 2021 talk “In nation-state actor’s shoes” but after my recent blog post I saw again people referring to the EQGRP as the NSA which is not entirely c…
Following ongoing research our team, IBM Security X-Force has uncovered evidence indicating that the Russia-based cybercriminal syndicate “Trickbot group” has been systematically attacking Ukraine since the Russian invasion — an unprecedented shift as the group had not previously targeted Ukraine
A Lugano, le plus jeune ministre de Volodymyr Zelensky a révélé une nouvelle facette de l’Ukraine aux yeux du monde: celle d’un pays digital qui se bat contre l’invasion russe grâce à une e-armée, aussi
Unit 42 continuously hunts for new and unique malware samples that match known advanced persistent threat (APT) patterns and tactics. On May 19, one such sample was uploaded to VirusTotal, where it received a benign verdict from all 56 vendors that evaluated it. Beyond the obvious detection concerns, we believe this sample is also significant in terms of its malicious payload, command and control (C2), and packaging.
