What's even more ludicrous is that Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, informed the committee that ransomware attacks on US businesses or critical systems are meant to "induce societal panic". While China is actively working to improve relations and steer ...
The director said the FBI is focused on combatting the "threat" of gangs and cartels moving fentanyl through the U.S. and said the FBI is investigating some of the top brass of the cartels in Mexico. "We're now pursuing investigations against transnational organized criminal grou...
FBI warning: Chinese hackers compromised Outlook accounts of U.S. government agency employees In ajoint statement by the CISA and FBIissued on July 12th, 2023, the federal agencies confirmed that advanced persistent threat (APT) actors managed to access and download Exchange Online Outlook data tha...
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These breaches are part of a broader cyber-espionage campaign confirmed by the FBI and CISA in October 2024. The attacks have compromised the private communications of a limited number of U.S. government officials and reportedly granted access to the U.S. law enforcement wiretapping platf...
"The FBI is seeking information regarding the identities of the individuals responsible for these cyber intrusions." The development comes in the aftermath of aseries of reportspublished by cybersecurity vendor Sophos chronicling a set of campaigns between 2018 and 2023 that exploited its edge infrastr...
"Identifying the source of cyber attacks is a complex technical issue. We hope that relevant sides will adopt a professional and responsible attitude ... rather than make groundless speculations and allegations." Before the WSJ report appeared, Kritenbrink was asked at a congressio...
China's government “firmly opposes and combats all kinds of cyber attacks,” spokesperson Liu Pengyu wrote in a statement emailed to The Associated Press. “The US needs to stop its own cyberattacks against other countries and refrain from using cyber security t...
China’s government “firmly opposes and combats all kinds of cyber attacks,” spokesperson Liu Pengyu wrote in a statement emailed to The Associated Press. “The US needs to stop its own cyberattacks against other countries and refrain from using cyber security to smear and slander China.”...
“Our evidence strongly suggests that the PRC actors are pre-positioning to launch future disruptive or destructive cyberattacks that could cause impact to national security, economic security, or public health and safety,” Eric Goldstein, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, told ...