Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’

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Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s open to an exchange of criminal hackers with the United States. American President Joe Biden said he would raise the issue with Putin of extraditing Russian hackers wanted in the U.S. at their summit on Wednesday, and Putin appears willing to reciprocate. ″If…
Application Security & Online Fraud , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Google Ad Leads to Malicious App Disguised as Telegram Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 17, 2021 Jannis Kirschner, an independent security researcher based in Basel, Switzerland, searched on Sunday for the desktop version of the popular messaging application Telegram. See Also:…
NGA Picks Four States for Academy on Cybersecurity PolicyFour states have been chosen by the National Governors Association (NGA) for its 2021 Policy Academy to Advance Whole-of-State Cybersecurity. Kansas, Missouri, Montana, and Washington have all been selected by the NGA Center for Best Practices to work directly with the NGA on cybersecurity governance, workforce development, and government partnership…
Zscaler has agreed to purchase startup Trustdome and its technology that’s used to get control over who and what has access to data, applications, and services in public cloud environments. The cloud security vendor said Ramat Gan, Israel-based Trustdome’s Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) platform will help businesses reduce their public cloud attack surface and…
Researchers from a Hong Kong based security vendor accidentally published a proof-of-concept for a new and unpatched vulnerability affecting the Print Spooler service on all current versions of Windows, sparking concerns that ransomware criminals could add the bug to their arsenals. The exploit allows for both local privilege escalation and remote code execution and was…
Advanced threat actors engaged in cyberespionage in APAC up their game in new campaign In June 2020, Kaspersky researchers uncovered an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. The final payload is a remote administration tool that provides full control over the infected device. Further analysis suggested that this…