nation state – Weekly Geek

JumpCloud, an IT firm serving 200,000 orgs, says it was hacked by nation-state

reader comments 20 with JumpCloud, a cloud-based IT management service that lists Cars.com, GoFundMe, and Foursquare among its 5,000 paying customers, experienced a security breach carried out by hackers working for a nation-state, the company said last week. The attack began on June 22 as a spear-phishing campaign, the company revealed last Wednesday. As part… 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 »