October 31, 2024

Pacific Rim: Inside the Counter-Offensive—The TTPs Used to Neutralize China-Based Threats

Sophos X-Ops unveils five-year investigation tracking China-based groups targeting perimeter devices

Security Operations

October 31, 2024

Pacific Rim timeline: Information for defenders from a braid of interlocking attack campaigns

Sophos X-Ops unveils five-year investigation tracking China-based groups targeting perimeter devices

Security Operations

March 30, 2020

Google sent ~40K warnings to targets of state-backed attackers in 2019

Google has seen a rising number of attackers impersonating news outlets and journalists to spread fake news among other reporters.

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February 11, 2020

Officials raise alarm about Chinese hacking

Officials pointed to ongoing threats against US institutions, painting a dire picture of hacking efforts to support Chinese economic goals.

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September 29, 2016

FBI probes possible hacks targeting phones of Democratic Party staff

Agents have reportedly asked to image some Democratic staffers' phones as they search for evidence - such as malware - of the hacking.

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September 23, 2016

Michelle Obama’s passport – or a scan that looks like it – posted online

The purported copy of the First Lady's passport plus emails from a staffer's account have been posted online.

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September 23, 2016

Change your password! Yahoo confirms data breach of 500 million accounts

It's the biggest known data breach in history and dwarves all previous attacks.

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September 06, 2016

Obama warns of hackers creating cyber ‘Wild Wild West’

If countries don't start acting responsibly with cyber weapons, the arms race could turn into a free-for-all, said President Obama.

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December 14, 2015

Twitter users targeted in possible state-sponsored attacks

A number of warning recipients are active in the security community, particularly with Tor, but it's not a consistent link for all of them.

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