Dara Kerr reports: DeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app soared to the top of Apple’s App Store, becoming the highest rated free app in the US, and climbed high in Google’s Play…
Category: cyberwar
EU sanctions 3 GRU members for cyberattacks against Estonia
ERR News reports: The European Union on Monday (January 27) imposed sanctions on three members of Russia’s military intelligence (GRU), who conducted a cyberattack against Estonia in May 2020. Estonia named the three GRU members – Yuri Denisov, Nikolay Korchagin and Vitali Shevchenko – last autumn after an investigation. It then declared them international fugitives….
The state registers of Ukraine have suffered a large-scale cyberattack: details from the Ministry of Justice
Svyatenko Tamara On December 19, the most extensive external cyberattack on the state registers of Ukraine in recent times occurred. This was reported by Olha Stefanishyna, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Minister of Justice of Ukraine. This targeted attack led to the temporary suspension of the Unified and State Registers, which are…
Cyberwar: Hackers tried to attack UA defense enterprises; UA hits Gazprombank with DDoS
State Special Communications / Yelyzaveta Kovtun reports: Hacker group UAC-0185 attempted to attack Ukrainian defense enterprises, as well as the Security and Defense Forces. Hackers used phishing emails for this. As reported in the State Intelligence Service, the hackers disguised their letters as official messages on behalf of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs….
FBI, CISA say Chinese hackers are still lurking in US telecom systems
Adam Janofsky reports: Leading U.S. cybersecurity agencies on Tuesday said that Chinese hackers likely still have access to critical telecommunications systems, and published guidance to help engineers and network defenders identify and remove the threat actors. In a call with reporters, senior officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI said…
Hackers breach US firm over Wi-Fi from Russia in ‘Nearest Neighbor Attack’
Bill Toulas reports: Russian state hackers APT28 (Fancy Bear/Forest Blizzard/Sofacy) breached a U.S. company through its enterprise WiFi network while being thousands of miles away, by leveraging a novel technique called “nearest neighbor attack.” The threat actor pivoted to the target after first compromising an organization in a nearby building within the WiFi range. The attack…