Intelligence

Ransomware: The Final Frontier (Thomas Barrett, Jack Horlock, Edward Lewis, Anthony Rance – RUSI)

Ransomware has become an insufficiently checked arena of exploitation, where criminals thrive unencumbered by significant consequential risks. Over the past decade, these cyber extortionists...

Winning the Industrial War: Comparing Russia, Europe and Ukraine, 2022–24 (Jack Watling, Oleksandr V Danylyuk – RUSI)

In an environment where Europe must be able to deter Russia with reduced US support, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine should spur significant efforts...

Poland’s prime minister says cyberattack targeted his party as election nears (Daryna Antoniuk, The Record)

The online systems of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's party were hit by a cyberattack earlier this week. Tusk did not provide details about...

Hackers hit Ukrainian state agencies, critical infrastructure with new ‘Wrecksteel’ malware (Daryna Antoniuk, The Record)

Ukraine recorded at least three cyberattacks in March targeting government agencies and critical infrastructure with new spying malware. The attacks were carried out using previously...

US, Australia, Canada warn of ‘fast flux’ scheme used by ransomware gangs (Jonathan Greig, The Record)

Ransomware gangs and Russian government hackers are increasingly turning to an old tactic called “fast flux” to hide the location of infrastructure used in...

Haugh fired from leadership of NSA, Cyber Command (Martin Matishak, The Record)

President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh as the head of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, a...

Paris set to host difficult negotiations on tackling commercial hacking tools (Alexander Martin, The Record)

A joint diplomatic initiative by the French and British governments to tackle “the proliferation and irresponsible use” of commercial hacking tools is hoping to...

North Korean IT worker scam spreading to Europe after US law enforcement crackdown (Jonathan Greig, The Record)

North Korea’s IT worker scam has expanded widely into Europe after years of focusing on U.S. companies, according to new research. Google’s Threat Intelligence...

CSAM platform Kidflix shut down by international operation (Joe Warminsky, The Record)

A multi-year operation against the child sexual abuse material (CSAM) platform Kidflix has led to dozens of arrests and the seizure of tens of...

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