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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and accused Beijing of working with criminal hackers in ransomware attacks and other cyber operations. The announcements, though not accompanied by sanctions against the Chinese government, were intended as a forceful…

The two-count indictment, which was returned in May and kept under seal until now, charges Ding Xiaoyang, Cheng Qingmin, and Zhu Yunmin were officers with the Hainan State Security Department, a provincial branch of China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS. A fourth charged individual, Wu Shurong, was charged as a computer hacker who created…

Pegasus Project – how governments use Pegasus spyware against journalists | IT Security News 19. July 2021 This article has been indexed from Security Affairs Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation…

Security researchers recently spotted a cyberweapon, which is a Windows spyware that develops and sells by an Isreal based commercial spyware maker “Candiru” to attack Windows users around the globe. Candiru is also known as Sourgum is a private firm from Isreal that selling “untraceable” spyware exclusively to governments to attack and monitor iPhones, Androids,…

Quick Hits: July 19, 2021 *** The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security on Friday restricted trade with four Russian IT and cybersecurity firms due to to concerns that those organizations work with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, support malicious cyber activity or otherwise pose a threat to U.S. national security. Aktsionernoe Obschchestvo Pasit,…

Application Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security ‘Zero Click’ Exploits Suspected in NSO Group Pegasus Spyware Attacks, Amnesty Says Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • July 19, 2021     A new exposé tracking how spyware has been used to target journalists, human rights advocates and dissidents suggests attackers have been exploiting zero-day flaws…

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Merely days after Microsoft sounded the alarm on an unpatched security vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service, possibly yet another zero-day flaw in the same component has come to light, making it the fourth printer-related flaw to be discovered in recent weeks.“Microsoft Windows allows for non-admin users to be able to install printer drivers…