Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks► Article Nation-State Actors Continue to Exploit Weak Passwords, MFA Rahul Neel Mani • May 6, 2025 Threat actors aren't rushing to adopt AI tools to exploit vulnerabilities. "They still prefer a victim with weak passwords, bad MFA, bad patching. ...
businesses being targeted by cybercriminals, minister for intergovernmental relations Pat McFadden told CyberUK attendees on Wednesday. Recent retailer hacks should be a "wake up call" for businesses. ► Article Nation-State Actors Continue to Exploit Weak Passwords, MFA Rahul Neel Mani • May...
The aims of nation-state cyber actors—largely espionage and disruption—remain consistent, along with their most reliable tactics and techniques: credential harvesting, malware, and VPN exploits. However, a common theme this year among the actors originating from China, Russia, North Korea, and Ira...
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 intelligence assessment noted public reports that detail how "Russian cyber actors" are developing the ability to remotely hack into industrial control systems that run electric power grids, urban mass-transit systems, air-traffic control networks and oil and gas pipelines. "These unspecified Russi...
June 2020 to compromise networks. This supply chain compromise likely facilitated the network breach FireEyedisclosedon December 8. And in anemergency directive, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) instructed government agencies to take immediate action to mitigate this risk...
Nation-state actors associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to complement their ongoing cyber attack operations. The findings come from a report published by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI, both...
A bevy of new cybersecurity reports point to the continuing problem of nation-state-sponsored threat actors. The primary culprits have long been Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, which all show up in recently published reports from Microsoft, IBM, Tenable, and Fortinet. ...
Cybercriminals rent out compromised routers to other criminals, and most likely also makes them available to commercial residential proxy providers. Nation-state threat actors like Sandworm used their own dedicated proxy botnets, while APT group Pawn Storm had access to a criminal proxy botnet of Ubi...
"Any kind of cyber intrusion that occurs -- whether it's the theft of $50, a destructive attack, or election manipulation -- requires some sort of punitive cost back on the actor," he said. "If actors perceive that a range of actions are permissive, they'll pursue a whole range we...