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The life and times of Cozy Bear, the Russian hackers who just hit Microsoft and HPE

Getty Images reader comments 38 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said Wednesday that Kremlin-backed actors hacked into the email accounts of its security personnel and other employees last May—and maintained surreptitious access until December. The disclosure was the second revelation of a major corporate network breach by the hacking group in five days. The hacking group… Read More »

iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones

reader comments 55 with 26 posters participating Share this story The Russian state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack last year exploited an iOS zero-day as part of a separate malicious email campaign aimed at stealing Web authentication credentials from Western European governments, according to Google and Microsoft. In a post Google published… Read More »

~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers

reader comments 90 with 51 posters participating Share this story About 18,000 organizations around the world downloaded network management tools that contained a backdoor that a nation state used to install malware in organizations the used the software, the tools provider, SolarWinds, said on Monday. The disclosure from Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds, came a day after… Read More »