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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. law enforcement has disrupted a second major Chinese hacking group nicknamed "Flax Typhoon" and wrested thousands of compromised devices from its grasp, FBI Director ...
FBI Director Chris Wray has previously described strong encryption as “an urgent public safety issue”, with the latest report from the agency suggesting that hackers are still within the ...
May 17: Estonia recovers from massive denial-of-service attack [62] June 13: FBI Operation Bot Roast finds over 1 million botnet victims [63] June 21: A spear phishing incident at the Office of the Secretary of Defense steals sensitive U.S. defense information, leading to significant changes in identity and message-source verification at OSD ...
Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting "for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow," FBI Director Christopher Wray said on ...
On December 19, Trump publicly addressed the attacks for the first time; he downplayed the hack, contended that the media had overblown the severity of the incident, said that "everything is well under control"; and proposed, without evidence, that China, rather than Russia, might be responsible for the attack.
Hive employed a wide variety of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), creating significant challenges for defense and mitigation. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), it functioned as affiliate-based ransomware, using multiple mechanisms to compromise business networks, including phishing emails with malicious attachments to gain access, and Remote Desktop Protocol ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hackers linked to the Chinese government are targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, preparing to cause "real-world harm" to Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a ...
On November 13, 2021, a hacker named Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, going by his alias "Pompompurin", compromised the FBI's external email system, sending thousands of messages warning of a cyberattack by cybersecurity CEO Vinny Troia who was falsely suggested to have been identified as part of The Dark Overlord hacking group by the United States Department of Homeland Security.