Court indicts 14 North Korean IT workers tied to $88 million in illicit gains
It’s part of a broader effort to counter Pyongyang’s use of tech professionals to fool U.S. companies and nonprofits.
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Senators, witnesses: $3B for ‘rip and replace’ a good start to preventing Salt Typhoon-style breaches
The annual defense spending bill contains money the FCC has sought to use to reimburse telecommunications carriers for removing Chinese equipment.
Turla living off other cybercriminals’ tools in order to attack Ukrainian targets
A Russian nation-state threat actor has been observed leveraging tools from other cybercriminal groups to compromise targets in Ukraine, a recent report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed.…
Treasury sanctions Chinese cyber company, employee for 2020 global firewall attack
The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Guan Tianfeng used a zero-day exploit to deploy malware on 81,000 firewalls.
FCC, for first time, proposes cybersecurity rules tied to wiretapping law
The proposed rules are a response to Salt Typhoon’s breach of at least eight U.S. telecom companies.
Russian-linked Turla caught using Pakistani APT infrastructure for espionage
Both Microsoft and Lumen’s BlackLotus Labs found Turla spying on Afghanistan and India via Pakistani infrastructure.
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U.S. government says Salt Typhoon is still in telecom networks
The United States and other Western nations released guidance Tuesday designed to evict the China-linked group in the wake of the high-profile hack.
Malware linked to Salt Typhoon used to hack telcos around the world
A report from Trend Micro details the highly sophisticated ways Salt Typhoon carries out its operations.
The UN cybercrime convention threatens security research. The US should do something about it
The UN treaty's broad and ambiguous language risks stifling vital work.
China’s elite hackers expand target list to European Union
Beijing's hackers are also using an open-source VPN tool for persistence.