Australia has been targeted by ongoing “sophisticated” cyber attacks from a “state-based actor,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned at a press conference today. Morrison said the attacks were targeting “all levels of government,” as well as businesses, political organizations, essential servic...
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...
Australia's prime minister revealed Friday his country was under a broad cyberattack from a "state-based actor" targeting government, public services and businesses, with suspicions falling on China. Warning Australians of "specific risks" and an increased tempo of attacks, Scott Morrison told a p...
From destructive attacks to zero-days, with a ransomware resurgence and weaponization of AI, 2025 is shaping to be a rich threat landscape fueled by growing geopolitical tension. Tom Kellermann of Contrast Security shares his view on how cybersecurity defenders should approach the New Year. Article...
The three federal agencies encourage companies to establish a set of mitigation strategies in order to reduce the likelihood of cyberattacks compromising their networks. Some of them are: Update and patch systems and products as quickly as possible after fixes are published. To optimize and speed ...
Iran continued its streak of destructive cyberattacks against regional adversaries, including a string of ransomware attacks against Israeli entities. Iran-linked threat actor RUBIDIUM has been implicated in the Pay2Key4 and N3tw0rm5 ransomware campaigns that targeted Israel in late 2020 and early 20...
While Morrison said the government knows it is a "sophisticated state-based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting and the tradecraft used", he was unable to say who exactly is targeted, or what that targeting looks like, and refused to attribute the attacks. ...
Manufacturers can do better to secure their devices against malware and cyberattacks. New regulations in the US and in Europe require vendors and manufacturers to ensure that devices do not pose risks to users and to include security features inside the dev...
Non-State Actor Suspected in Massive Cyberattack: Is That Less Worrying?Last week's major cyberattack, which affected millions ofcomputer users, was probably the work...Porter, Steven