Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’

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[Leer en español] Russia yesterday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, in response to the cyber espionage sanctions adopted by Washington, which include the expulsion of ten Russian diplomats. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova advanced that the conversation with the ambassador “will not be to the liking of the U.S. side.” “Such…
The attack overwhelmed the systems of a Belgian ISP, leading to widespread service outages and disruptions Many government websites and services in Belgium were knocked offline on Tuesday after Belnet, the internet service provider (ISP) for the country’s public sector, was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. According to Belnet, the attack started…
Kaseya released a patch for the vulnerabilities that were used by REvil in what seems to be one of the largest ransomware attacks, in which the ransomware gang, also known as Sodinokibi, targeted MSPs with thousands of customers. Back in April, the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) had disclosed seven vulnerabilities to Kaseya with most of them…
Attackers can use a newly disclosed domain name server (DNS) vulnerability publicly known as TsuNAME as an amplification vector in large-scale reflection-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting authoritative DNS servers. In simpler terms, authoritative DNS servers translate web domains to IP addresses and pass this info to recursive DNS servers that get queried…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Federal Public Service Interior Investigating Possible Cyberespionage Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 27, 2021 Belgium’s Federal Public Service Interior is investigating a possible cyberespionage campaign. Belgium’s interior ministry, Federal Public Service Interior, is investigating an attack against its network…
The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Tuesday acknowledged that one of its contractors had been breached by hackers linked to Russia but said its data had not been accessed. Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that the Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) 29 group had breached the RNC’s computer systems last week by compromising Synnex, a third-party technology provider. …