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AI included in DHS national security risks for 2024

September 18, 2023

The DHS released the 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA), which found that foreign and domestic terrorism posed a high risk for 2024.

Ukraine and the global stage: Terrorism, cyber espionage & TikTok

Check out Episode 15 of the Cybersecurity and Geopolitical Podcast.

Security Staff

April 5, 2023

In Episode 15 of the Cybersecurity & Geopolitical Podcast from Security magazine, hosts Ian Thornton-Trump and Philip Ingram discuss current developments in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, geopolitical shifts in global intelligence, and app-based data collection.

APT group used pornographic lure to spy on organizations for 10 years

Maria Henriquez

June 13, 2022

SentinelLabs uncovered Aoqin Dragon, an active cyberespionage group that has been operating for nearly a decade.

U.S. warns against hiring North Korean IT staff

Maria Henriquez

May 19, 2022

U.S. officials have warned businesses against hiring IT staff from North Korea, as they may expose themselves to legal consequences and insider risk.

Winnti APT group stole trillions in intellectual property

Maria Henriquez

May 4, 2022

Winnti Group stole gigabytes of intellectual property and sensitive proprietary data from dozens of companies, according to Cybereason.

Cybercrime: A clear and present danger

Sanjaya Kumar

March 3, 2022

Nine suggestions for defending your organization against cybercrime or cyberwarfare.

New cyber-campaign targeting SE Asia critical infrastructure organizations

August 6, 2021

Four critical infrastructure organizations in a South East Asian country were targeted in an intelligence-gathering campaign that continued for several months, Symantec Threat Hunter Team has found. Among the organizations targeted were a water company, a power company, a communications company, and a defense organization, with evidence the attackers were interested in information about SCADA systems.

2021: Ransomware isn’t going away anytime soon

Emilio Iasiello

February 25, 2021

Indeed, over the past few years, ransomware operators have shifted tactics, moving from widespread targeting intended to collect smaller ransoms from several entities to being more selective in what organizations are targeted and setting larger ransom amounts. One recent tactic revealed ransomware operators using virtual machine to evade detection, which was quickly adopted by other groups.

Turla Crutch attacks Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an EU country, misuses Dropbox in cyber-espionage

December 2, 2020

ESET researchers discovered a previously undocumented backdoor and document stealer used for cyber-espionage. ESET has been able to attribute the program, dubbed Crutch by its developers, to the infamous Turla APT group. It was in use from 2015 until at least early 2020. ESET has seen Crutch on the network of a Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a country of the European Union, suggesting that this malware family is only used against very specific targets. These tools were designed to exfiltrate sensitive documents and other files to Dropbox accounts controlled by Turla operators.

Rise in mercenary hacking groups and cyber espionage

October 8, 2020

As the 2020 U.S. presidential election nears, there has been a rise in mercenary hacking groups and cyber espionage. Some say this a direct result of the current administrations’ increasingly isolationist global foreign policy, and that the U.S.’ status in the global cyber domain should be a major discussion point before November.