A cyber-espionage group believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government has been observed targeting military organizations in Southeast Asia in attacks involving previously undocumented malware, Bitdefender reported on Wednesday. Linked to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) over half a decade ago, the Naikon advanced persistent threat (APT) was revealed last year to have ..
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An FBI operation that gave law enforcement remote access to hundreds of computers to counter a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software is a tool that is likely to be deployed “judiciously” in the future as the Justice Department, aware of privacy concerns, develops a framework for its use, a top national security ..
Manual penetration testing (pen-testing) is increasingly challenged by automated methods of vulnerability discovery and management. The reasons are not difficult to understand: the cost and coverage of manual testing is too high and too limited. A new survey of more than 100 IT and security managers involved in the pen-testing practices of companies with more ..
Much of SecurityWeek’s CISO Conversations this series discusses how to be a leader. Here we start with a slight variation: how do you become a leader? The CISO is the ultimate cybersecurity leader. He or she must lead the security team into battle against the stronger forces of cyber criminals and advanced threat actors; must ..
Google on Wednesday began a legal bid at Britain’s highest court to try to block a class action alleging that it illegally tracked millions of iPhone users. The hearing at the Supreme Court will hear arguments for two days before judges decide whether the claim against the internet search giant should proceed. The “Google You ..
In a letter to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, two members of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission are asking for an increase in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in fiscal year 2022. Representatives Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) are pressing for an allocation increase of at least $400 ..
Navy SEAL platoons are beefing up capabilities in cyber and electronic warfare and unmanned systems, honing their skills to collect intelligence Ten years after they found and killed Osama bin Laden, U.S. Navy SEALs are undergoing a major transition to improve leadership and expand their commando capabilities to better battle threats from global powers like ..
DevSecOps company Sysdig on Wednesday announced becoming a “unicorn” after raising $188 million in a Series F funding round at a valuation of $1.19 billion. The latest funding round, which brings the total raised by the company to $394 million, was led by Premji Invest & Associates and Third Point Ventures, with participation from Accel, ..
New service can tell a company which users have a password known to hackers, without having to know the usernames Businesses need to keep their user accounts safe. But there are billions of username and password pairs available to hackers on the dark web. User tendency to reuse passwords on multiple accounts means that hackers ..
A widespread disinformation campaign dubbed Ghostwriter is believed to be the work of a state-sponsored cyber-espionage group, cybersecurity firm FireEye reported on Wednesday. Initially detailed in July 2020 but ongoing for years, the campaign aligns with Russian interests and was initially observed targeting audiences in Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland with NATO-related themes. Since FireEye’s initial ..
