Tag: Cyber

The Ever-Growing Iranian Cyber Threat (Mansour Piroti, BESA Center)

Iran cyberterrorism image by Jorgen Schaefer The Iranian regime has been a considerable threat to global cybersecurity ever since 2012, when it committed cyberattacks on US...

What’s Working and What Isn’t in Researching Influence Operations? (Alicia Wanless, Lawfare)

All Eye Overlord by Aswin Behera. (Source: Cyber Visuals) The world first learned about Russian attempts to manipulate the information environment in 2013. Staff hired...

The symbol and the risk (by Marco Emanuele)

After twenty years, September 11, 2001 (which we have raised as a symbol that traces a new era) still speaks to us. We look...

USA/Defense/Cyber – Which Systems Can Be Improved With Better UX? All Of them (Breaking Defense)

BARRY ROSENBERG writes: Visual Logic provides human-centered design consulting, better known as user experience (UX), for DoD contractors who are modernizing software applications, building...

India/Cyber – India: A very colonial hangover (The Interpreter)

EDMOND ROY writes: In the 1830’s Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay set about drafting a piece of legislation that would outlive not just him but also the...

Cyber – BlackMatter ransomware group claims to be Darkside and REvil succesor (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes: BlackMatter ransomware gang, a new threat actor appears in the threat landscape and claims to combine TTPs of Darkside and REvil. go to Security...

Cyber – Flaws in Zimbra could allow to takeover webmail server of a targeted organization (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes: Researchers discovered flaws in Zimbra email collaboration software that could allow attackers to compromise email accounts by sending a malicious email. go to Security...

Cyber – South Africa’s logistics company Transnet SOC hit by a ransomware attack (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes: Transnet SOC Ltd, a large South African rail, port and pipeline company, announced it was hit by a disruptive cyber attack. go to Security Affairs: South Africa’s logistics company...

Cyber – DIVD discloses three new unpatched Kaseya Unitrends zero-days (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes: Experts found three new zero-day flaws in the Kaseya Unitrends service and warn users to avoid exposing the service to the Internet. go to...

China/Cyber – China’s National Cybersecurity Center A Base for Military-Civil Fusion in the Cyber Domain (CSET)

by Dakota Cary CSET writes: China’s National Cybersecurity Center (NCC) resides on a 40 km2 plot in Wuhan. As one indication of its significance, the...

USA/Cyber/Defense – US Cyber Command touts acquisition advancements (Defense News)

Mark Pomerleau writes: During a forum to present capability needs to industry, U.S. Cyber Command leaders gave their take on how the operation has...

Cyber – Hackers flooded the Babuk ransomware gang’s forum with gay porn images (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes: The Babuk ransomware operators seem to have suffered a ransomware attack, threat actors flooded their forum gay orgy porn images. go to Security Affairs:...

Cyber – No More Ransom helped ransomware victims to save almost €1B (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes: The No More Ransom initiative celebrates its fifth anniversary, over 6 million victims of ransomware attacks recover their files for free saving almost...

Cyber – Should ransomware payments be banned? (Brookings)

Tarah Wheeler and Ciaran Martin write: In recent memory, ransomware has gone from major nuisance to international crisis. Criminal gangs that target computers, encrypt their contents,...

Cyber – Hiding Malware inside a model of a neural network (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes: Researchers demonstrated how to hide malware inside an image classifier within a neural network in order to bypass the defense solutions. go to Security...

USA/China/Cyber – US hypocrisy and double standard exposed by its cyberattack on petition calling for Fort Detrick lab probe: FM (Global Times)

Global Times writes: The US owes Chinese netizens an explanation on why it remains silent on opening Fort Detrick lab for investigation and why...