Mayura Kathir reports: A sophisticated cyber-sabotage group known as Predatory Sparrow has emerged as one of the most destructive threat actors targeting Iranian critical infrastructure over the past several years. Unlike traditional cybercriminal operations focused on financial gain, this group executes highly disruptive campaigns designed to cripple essential services, destroy sensitive data, and send provocative…
Category: cyberwar
UK: ‘Catastrophic’ attack as Russians hack files on EIGHT MoD bases and post them on the dark web
Lydia Veljanovski and Sean Rayment report: Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails – and posted them on the dark web, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In what has been described as a ‘catastrophic’ security…
Anti-Israel cyberattack disrupts operations at Kelowna airport
Stewart Lewis reports: Operations at the Kelowna, B.C., airport (YLW) were disrupted Tuesday evening after its passenger information screens and public address systems were overtaken in a terrorist cyberattack. The incident began about 5:15 p.m., when pro-Hamas messaging could be seen and heard throughout the airport. A message took over flight information screens announcing the system was…
F5 discloses breach tied to nation-state threat actor
Greg Otto reports: F5, a company that specializes in application security and delivery technology, disclosed Wednesday that it had been the target of what it’s calling a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which it attributes to a nation-state actor. The announcement follows authorization from the U.S. Department of Justice, which allowed F5 to delay public disclosure of…
US law firm with major political clients hacked in spying spree linked to China
Sean Lyngaas of CNN reports: Suspected Chinese government-backed hackers have breached computer systems of U.S. law firm Williams & Connolly, which has represented some of America’s most powerful politicians, as part of a larger spying campaign against multiple law firms, according to a letter the firm sent clients and a source familiar with the hack….
Ukrainian Intelligence Hackers Breach Crimean Servers: Uncovered War Crimes Evidence and Russian Military Lists
Sania Kozatskyi reports: Cyber specialists of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine have gained full access to all computers and servers of the self-proclaimed authorities in temporarily occupied Crimea. Sources within the agency reported this to Militarnyi. As part of the operation, they obtained over 100 terabytes of intelligence data, including official correspondence of the so-called “head of…