Peter Williams, a former executive at Trenchant, pleaded guilty to selling stolen software hacking tools to a Russian broker, even after realizing that a previous tool he sold was being used by a South Korean broker. Williams admi...
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The investigation into John Bolton's handling of classified material began after he admitted to the FBI in July 2021 that hackers, believed to be from Iran, had breached his AOL email account and attempted to extort him. The breac...
This blog post discusses the creation of the APT-1 report by Mandiant in 2013, which exposed the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group APT-1, linked to the People's Liberation Army. The report detailed the group's activities in st...
Stryker faced a severe cyberattack by Iranian hacktivists, leading to a global system shutdown and significant data loss, reportedly in retaliation for US actions in Iran.
The Justice Department has charged Smartmatic, a UK-based voting machine company, and its executives with bribery and money laundering related to contracts in the Philippines. The indictment alleges that the company engaged in a s...
Peter Williams, a former Trenchant executive, was sentenced to over seven years in prison for selling stolen hacking tools to a Russian firm, raising national security concerns.
The US Treasury canceled Booz Allen Hamilton's contracts after a contractor leaked sensitive tax records, including those of Donald Trump, to restore public trust in government.
A thwarted cyberattack using wiper malware targeted Poland's energy sector, attributed to the Russian hacking group Sandworm, potentially threatening 500,000 people.
A cyberattack on Poland's grid infrastructure exposed severe security vulnerabilities, allowing hackers to inflict damage without disrupting power supply, attributed to the Russian group Berserk Bear.
A cyberattack on Poland's grid infrastructure disabled communication devices at 30 sites, raising concerns about the security of distributed energy resources and attributed to the Russian group Sandworm.
The United Arab Emirates is recruiting former US Defense Department workers to work on artificial intelligence for its military. The UAE officer who made the pitch to recruit the US workers went through official channels by contac...
President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum revoking any active security clearance currently held by Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The memorandum also suspend...
0Did Trump Admin Order U.S. Cyber Command and CISA to Stand Down on Russia? (Story updated)
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The text discusses two stories that suggest the Trump administration is going to be softer on Russia than previous administrations, particularly with regard to the threat that Russia poses in cyber space. The first story reported ...
New court documents provide extensive details about the access and activity of a 25-year-old DOGE employee named Marko Elez at the Treasury Department. The documents contradict previous government statements and news stories about...
The US government disclosed 39 zero-day software vulnerabilities in 2023, but it did not reveal how many it kept secret. The report is the first of its kind and reveals that the government disclosed 39 zero-day vulnerabilities to ...
0Anatomy of a Nuclear Scare
2025-01-08 •
The text discusses the fake radiation readings in New York and New Jersey, and the mysterious drone swarm that fueled a nuclear scare. It explains how the fake radiation readings were submitted to an online map, and how the drones...
The U.S. Justice Department charged three current and former executives of a U.S.-founded voting machine company with paying bribes to win lucrative election contracts in the Philippines. Smartmatic, the company involved, has a lo...
Kaspersky Lab is closing its U.S. division and laying off workers due to the U.S. Commerce Department's ban on the sale of Kaspersky software in the U.S. The ban was imposed due to national security concerns that Kaspersky or the ...
The U.S. government has expanded its ban on Kaspersky software, citing national security concerns. The ban would prohibit the sale of Kaspersky software in the U.S. and prevent the company from distributing software security updat...
0Apple Chip Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Encryption Keys
2024-03-22 •
A group of researchers has found a serious security vulnerability in Apple’s M-series of chips that would allow attackers to steal secret keys from Mac and iPad devices. The problem affects Apple M1, M2 and M3 chips and occurs whe...
0Zero Day Moves to Ghost
2024-03-19 •
The author announces that they have moved Zero Day from Substack to Ghost due to the lack of flexibility in layout and Substack's decisions that made it harder to support their business. They also express their concern about hatre...
Nevada's attorney general filed a motion to prevent Meta from providing end-to-end encryption to users under eighteen in his state, citing concerns about predators targeting minors. Meta argues that end-to-end encryption has been ...
The European standards body has decided to make all of its encryption algorithms public for researchers and users to examine them for flaws. The group plans to release older algorithms that caused controversy when researchers foun...
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered that the StripedFly malware, initially thought to be a crypto miner, was actually a sophisticated spy platform that has infected over a million victims since 2017. The platform is designed f...