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Biden Promised Toughness on Putin, But Asserts Latest Ransomware Attacks Caused ‘Minimal Damages’

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 07, 2021 17 Comments

Biden feels 'good' about the US' ability to respond to attacks....

Hacker Group Behind Weekend Cyberattack Demands $70 Million

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 05, 2021 22 Comments

Grocery store chain Swedish Coop took the brunt. It closed over 800 stores since the cash registers went offline....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iv-2FdtIGU

Report: Iran Ran Major Clandestine Online Campaign Against Netanyahu During Israeli Election

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 01, 2021 16 Comments

Iranian hackers, operating in Hebrew, impersonated anti-Netanyahu activists, spread misinformation on multiple social media platforms and gathered information on Israeli citizens....

White House Walks Back Biden Remark About Swapping Cybercriminals With Russia

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 15, 2021 8 Comments

Remarks made during post-G7-presser should foster concern about upcoming G20...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqjOZGD_9kA

60 U.S. Congress Members Hit by Ransomware Attack

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 10, 2021 31 Comments

Congressional representatives locked out of their accounts for weeks....

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/us/cyberattack-colonial-pipeline.html

DOJ Claims It Recovered Millions in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 07, 2021 47 Comments

The Department of Justice announced it recovered millions in Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid DarkSide after a ransomware attack shut down the main pipeline for gas on the East Coast. But many crypto experts raised their eyebrows with this announcement.

Report: Russia-Linked Hacking Group Behind JBS Cyberattack

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 02, 2021 22 Comments

Sources told Bloomberg News the hacking group REvil (or Sodinokibi) is behind the shutdown of JBS SA, the world's largest meat producer, plants in the U.S. JBS SA owns JBS USA and Pilgrim's Pride Corp.

Colonial Pipeline Restarts, Reportedly Paid Hackers $5 Million

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 13, 2021 51 Comments

Colonial Pipeline restarted operations late Wednesday afternoon, following a shutdown initiated after a ransomware attack. However, the company says that it would still take several days for the system to be fully operational.

Colonial Pipeline Hack Fueling Gas Shortages and Panic Buying

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 12, 2021 36 Comments

The ransomware cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline has led to a continuous shutdown of significant stretches of the company's system. The response is now fueling gas shortages and panic buying in portions of the 17 states that receive their fuel from this source.

Emergency Declaration Issued Over Pipeline Shut-Down after Cyber-Attack

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 11, 2021 8 Comments

In response to the Colonial Pipeline shut-down in the wake of a ransomware cyber-attack, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a regional emergency declaration in 17 states and the District of Columbia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5avoQi-rr0&t=4s

China’s TikTok Vows Legal and PR Campaign Against Trump Ban

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 12, 2020 13 Comments

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is planning to mount a legal and public relations offensive against U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on China-owned social media app. "ByteDance, the Chinese owner of short video hit TikTok, is preparing to escalate its legal and public relations battle against US President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban the app in the United States" Hong Kong based South China Morning Post revealed Monday.

Iranian Spies Caught on Videos Hacking into U.S. Email Accounts

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 21, 2020 11 Comments

Iranian regime-backed hackers were caught on video breaking into U.S. officials' email accounts. Iranian cyberspies 'accidentally' recorded themselves hacking into foreign users, the media reports said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWTzcpRbpYI

Iran Poses a Growing Cyber Security Threat to Germany: Country’s Intel Agency

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on June 21, 2019 8 Comments

While Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is committed to saving Iran's faltering economy in the wake of the U.S. sanction, Tehran is emerging as a major cyber security threat to Germany and the West, the German intelligence service warned.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-thwarted-a-hamas-cyber-attack-during-weekend-battle/

Hamas launched a cyberattack during rocket barrage, so Israel blew up their cyber command center

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2019 28 Comments

There appears to be a ceasefire, or at least pause in fighting, in the current Gaza conflict. Hamas and Iranian-controlled Islamic Jihad launched over 600 rockets killing several Israeli civilians. The rockets were launched mostly from civilian locations in Gaza towards civilian locations in Israel.

CrowdStrike Revises Russian Hack Into Ukrainian Artillery

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 29, 2017 12 Comments

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike recently revised a report from December that insisted that the group "Fancy Bear," which has ties to Russian intelligence, used malware to hack into Ukrainian artillery. In the same report, the firm said "Fancy Bear" used the same malware to "hack" into the American election. Well, British think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) found that CrowdStrike "erroneously used IISS data as proof of the intrusion." This also calls into question its findings of meddling in our election.

https://www.idfblog.com/2017/01/11/hamas-fake-facebook-profiles-target-israeli-soldiers/

Hamas Honeypot Trap Exposed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2017 19 Comments

Honeypot traps are in the news after the CNN-Buzzfeed Trump-Russia fiasco. What's a honeypot trap? Seriously, haven't you read any spy novels? It when an intelligence agency offers up honey (a girl, boy, whatever) to a target, who then partakes of the honey not knowing the event is being filmed for future blackmail. The trap can be things other than honey (like luring the target into some other financial or criminally compromising position). Having traveled extensively and studied in the Soviet Union, I know that various traps were set even for lowly students.

I’m so old, I remember when Democrats blamed Hillary’s loss on James Comey, not Russia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2016 40 Comments

We live in very dangerous times, with Democrats trying to flip the Electoral College against Trump through cajoling, and when that fails, threats and intimidation. It still seems unlikely that Democrats will pull it off by Monday, December 19, 2016, when the Electoral College votes. I shudder to think what will happen if Democrats manage to steal the election this way, just as I would have shuddered to think what would have happened in 2008 had Republicans succeeded in stealing the election from Obama using similar tactics. This Coup de Electoral College attempt is premised mostly on assertions that Russia "hacked the election," and that there is new information after the election that could not have been considered by voters. In that theory, the Electoral College must act to protect the nation.

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/809546686401900544

NBC News: Obama didn’t get tough with Russian hacking because thought Hillary would win anyway

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2016 26 Comments

Anonymous sources and leaks have fueled an unhinged quest to flip the Electoral College against Trump. The narrative has been, depending on which rant you are reading at the moment, that Russia "hacked the election," was unfair because it didn't also release RNC emails, Trump is a really bad hombre who must be stopped at all costs, etc. But tonight the anonymous narrative took a new turn. NBC News reports that Obama administration thought Clinton would win, didn't want to risk potential cyber war with Russia:

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