Richard Holmes reports: UK ambulance services have been targeted by Russian hackers, risking disruption to their communication systems, with the potential to severely hamper Britain’s emergency services. Intelligence material seen by i shows that over the past 12 months, a Kremlin-protected hacking network has targeted key suppliers to The UK Ambulance Services and Ministry of Defence (MoD)….
Jonathan Greig reports: One of the top cybersecurity officials in the U.S. said Wednesday that he was especially concerned with Chinese infiltration of the country’s critical infrastructure, as well as software supply chain risks and the continued expansion of ransomware. Although there have been several recent disclosures about Beijing-linked hacking campaigns, National Cyber Director Harry…
Eli Stoanova reports: Russian hackers have attacked the websites of the Senate of the Federal Parliament of Belgium, as well as the electronic pages of the local authority in the southern Belgian region of Wallonia, the administration of the Wallonia-Brussels region and the municipality of Antwerp, local media reported, as quoted by BTA. It is…
Thomson Reuters reports: Russian state media company VGTRK has been targeted in an unprecedented cyberattack, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, saying that specialists were working hard to determine who was responsible. VGTRK, which owns and operates Russia’s main national TV channels and a slew of regional channels and radio stations, said earlier on…
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today the unsealing of a warrant authorizing the seizure of 41 internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to commit computer fraud and abuse in the United States. As an example of the Department’s commitment to public-private operational collaboration to disrupt such adversaries’ malicious cyber activities,…
Tara Seals reports: A freshly discovered advanced persistent threat (APT) dubbed “Salt Typhoon” has reportedly infiltrated Internet service provider (ISP) networks in the US, looking to steal information and potentially set up a launchpad for disruptive attacks. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Wall Street Journal broke the news on Sept. 25 that the Chinese-sponsored state…