Browsing: cyber attacks
The US government says hackers linked to Iran are disrupting US water and energy providers
The US government is warning that state-sponsored Iranian hackers are actively breaking into and disrupting industrial control systems at US water and energy providers. This new…
US blames Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts for cyberattacks that netted $62m from cybercrime victims
US Attorneys have charged three Russian nationals and two web hosts with hacking, conspiracy and money laundering for their alleged roles in hosting cyberattacks that caused…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pulling back the curtain on a 22,000-square-foot city on its Huntsville, Alabama, campus that it built to train law enforcement…
For months, fraudsters have been exploiting a loophole that allows them to send spam emails from an internal Microsoft email address commonly used to send legitimate…
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they have taken down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its…
A US court has sentenced Latvian hacker Deniss Zolotarjovs to more than eight years in prison after being convicted of ransomware attacks. The Justice Department accused…
The US government is warning of a serious CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
A serious security vulnerability that affects nearly every version of the Linux operating system has defenders scrambling to patch after security researchers publicly released exploit code…
The FCC bans the importation of new consumer routers made abroad, citing security risks
The Federal Communications Commission has ordered a ban on the importation of new foreign-made consumer routers, citing cybersecurity risks. The order, posted late Mondaysaid the import…
In 2010, the famous security researcher Barnafrom Jack spectacularly hacked into an ATM cash machine on stage at the Black Hat security conference, causing it to…
US prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of an active-duty US Army soldier in December to a massive theft of US phone records from AT&T and…