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Facebook says hackers backed by Vietnam’s government are linked to IT firm

reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating Share this story Facebook said it has linked an advanced hacking group widely believed to be sponsored by the government of Vietnam to what’s purported to be a legitimate IT company in that country. The so-called advanced persistent threat group goes under the monikers APT32 and OceanLotus. It… Read More »

COVID-19 vaccine data has been unlawfully accessed in hack of EU regulator

reader comments 16 with 14 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Information relating to the one of the most promising coronavirus vaccines has been “unlawfully accessed” following a hack on the European regulatory body that’s in the final stages of approving it, the firms jointly developing the vaccine said on Wednesday.… Read More »

Premiere security firm FireEye says it was breached by nation-state hackers

reader comments 50 with 42 posters participating Share this story FireEye, a $3.5 billion company that helps customers respond to some of the world’s most sophisticated cyberattacks, has itself been hacked, most likely by a well-endowed nation-state that made off with “red-team” attack tools used to pierce network defenses. The revelation, made in a press… Read More »

NSA says Russian state hackers are using a VMware flaw to ransack networks

Enlarge / This image was the profile banner of one of the accounts allegedly run by the Internet Research Agency, the organization that ran social media “influence campaigns” in Russia, Germany, Ukraine, and the US dating back to 2009. A Russian troll reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story The National Security… Read More »

Six Russians accused of the world’s most destructive hacks indicted

reader comments 90 with 56 posters participating Share this story Six men accused of carrying out some of the world’s most destructive hacks—including the NotPetya disk wiper and power grid attacks that knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians—have been indicted in US federal court. The indictment said that all six men are… Read More »

Microsoft boots apps out of Azure used by China-sponsored hackers

Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. reader comments 74 with 43 posters participating Share this story Fortune 500 companies aren’t the only ones flocking to cloud services like Microsoft Azure. Increasingly, hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are also hosting their tools in the cloud, and that’s keeping people… Read More »