This is not one of the photos used in the so-called PowerPepper malware campaign. But the campaign does actually use photos of peppers. (Getty Images) Kaspersky catches hacker-for-hire group using ‘PowerPepper’ malware The market is driven by cash-flush organizations that don’t want a malicious campaign traced back to them. Dec 3, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
Pete Linforth via Pixabay Hacker-for-hire group leverages zero-days, disinformation in Middle East Meet "Bahamut," a group that has included malicious apps in the Play Store and iOS marketplace. Oct 7, 2020 By Shannon Vavra
Photo of a Neutron Star / Photo by Kevin Gill (CC2.0) Researchers say hackers responsible for 2013 Microsoft, Facebook breaches have disappeared The group has become virtually untraceable since September 2015. Oct 17, 2017 By Chris Bing
The FSB building in Nizhny Novgorod. (CC0) Russia’s reliance on cybercriminals has a ‘silver lining,’ says top DOJ lawyer A top Justice Department official says that a “silver lining” exists in the fact that Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, a foreign intelligence service, were reliant… Apr 24, 2017 By Chris Bing