Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands will reportedly receive a quarter of a billion dollars over the next three years to implement and bolster mobile broadband networks, according to the Federal …
CIA Report Slammed Agency’s Security as “Woefully Lax”
Democrat Senator Ron Wyden expressed his concern over the CIA's lack of proper security practices after reading a 2017 report describing the agency's cybersecurity as "woefully lax." The internal …
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LinkedIn ‘Job Offers’ Targeted Aerospace, Military Firms With Malware
A recent malware campaign has been uncovered, targeting victims in Europe and the Middle East through LinkedIn spear-phishing messages. The targets are in the aerospace and military fields, and the …
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Hosting Provider Hit With Largest-Ever DDoS Attack
Akamai, an internet infrastructure firm, revealed recently that they had been targeted by the largest denial-of-service attack to date. The attackers targeted specific websites hosted by Akamai with …
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Super secretive Russian disinfo operation discovered dating back to 2014
Graphika published a 120-page report that describes a new Russian information operation that was previously not well known. The Russian threat actor group is codenamed Secondary Infektion and is not …
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Global Coronavirus Infections Pass Eight Million
Across the globe, more than eight million people have been infected by COVID-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 437,000 have died worldwide since the virus was …
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North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South in Kaesong
Yesterday, North Korea blew up a joint liaison office with South Korea near the border town of Kaesong, North Korea. The drastic move occurred just hours after renewed threats of military action at …
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Beijing extends residential lockdowns and tightens outbound travel as coronavirus infections spread
Beijing has re-entered lockdown in several residential compounds, disinfected 30,000 different restaurants, and tightened travel as the city faces a renewed outbreak that has continued to spread over …
Justice Gets 15 Guilty Pleas for International Crime Ring that Laundered Money Through Cryptocurrency Exchanges
A recent case involving an international scam that posted fake auctions online and laundered money hit a huge milestone last week, with fifteen people involved in the case entering guilty pleas for …
US bank customers targeted in ongoing Qbot campaign
F5 Labs has discovered ongoing attacks utilizing the Qbot malware payloads to steal banking credentials from customers of US financial institutions, including JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Bank …
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