While it’s tempting to focus on nation-state attacks as the most interesting cyberactivity from the past year, it would be a mistake to overlook other threats, particularly cybercrime, which impacts more users in the digital ecosystem than nation-state activity. Cybercriminals continue to act as...
Microsoft and Open AI detail how some nation-state actors have started to use large language models to gather intelligence.
Nation-State Actors Ramp Up Cyberattacks Michael Novinson • December 4, 2024 Nation-state attackers pose a growing cybersecurity threat driven by specific geopolitical or economic objectives. These actors often target organizations with valuable data, using advanced techniques such as reconnaissance,...
Nationalstaatliche Cyberangriffsprävention mit Harmony Mobile Nation-state actors have various targets and use a wide range of methods to carry out their attacks. As phishing and social engineering are commonly use to initiate an attack, mobile devices are a favorite vector. More information about...
Since cyberspace has become another dimension of state competition, the number of nation-state cyber operations has increased significantly. In the recent past, they were associated with cyber espionage (political and industrial), and this is still in use. Many of them have taken the form ...
The Feds are warning that nation-state actors are once again after U.S. assets, this time in a spate of cyberattacks that exploit five vulnerabilities that affect VPN solutions, collaboration-suite software and virtualization technologies.
“Nation-state actors are hard because they effectively have infinite funding and they’re above the law – at least in their country,” said Roberto, Principal Consultant and Lead Investigator of the Microsoft Detection and Response Team. “They have very good technical resources, s...
Cybercriminals and nation state actors share a common interest in compromised routers that are used as an anonymization layer. Cybercriminals rent out compromised routers to other criminals, and most likely also makes them available to commercial residential proxy providers. ...
Private-sector offensive actors are growing increasingly common. Also known as cyber mercenaries, these entities develop and sell tools, techniques, and services to clients — often governments — to break into networks and Internet-connected devices. While often an asset for nation-state actor...
Health insurance company UnitedHealth Group said it is responding to a cyberattack by a nation-state threat actor impacting the IT systems of its Change Healthcare subsidiary. According to a filing with the SEC last week, UnitedHealth said it found out on Feb. 21 that the actors gained acces...