Suspected Chinese hackers tampered with widely used customer chat programThe Chinese government rejected the claim. In an email, Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said officials in Beijing "firmly oppose an...
01 Oct, 2022, 12.37 PM IST
Google completes $5.4 billion acquisition of Mandiant that found SolarWinds hackMandiant will join Google Cloud to help organisations improve their threat, incident and exposure management.
13 Sep, 2022, 10.05 AM IST
Microsoft: Russia behind 58% of detected state-backed hacksRussia accounted for most state-sponsored hacking detected by Microsoft over the past year, with a 58% share, mostly targeting government a...
07 Oct, 2021, 06.54 PM IST
Russia’s most aggressive ransomware group disappeared. It’s unclear who disabled them.While shutting REvil for now would give Putin and Biden a chance to show they were confronting the problem, it could also give the ransomwa...
14 Jul, 2021, 07.36 AM IST
Russian hackers hit 150 firms in latest cyber attack: MicrosoftTouted as the same Russia-based hackers behind the infamous SolarWinds software hack, the latest attack by the group named 'Nobelium' has t...
29 May, 2021, 12.42 PM IST
Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers now targeting US agencies, NGOsNobelium, the Russian entity responsible for the SolarWinds hack last year, broke into an email marketing account used by the USAID and fro...
28 May, 2021, 10.32 AM IST
'Flattered' Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin denies SolarWinds attack: BBCThe United States and Britain cast Russia as a dangerous former superpower which they say has poisoned enemies with nerve agents and radioa...
18 May, 2021, 03.57 PM IST
White House blames Russian spy agency SVR for SolarWinds hack: statementThe White House said in a statement on Thursday that Russia's foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, was responsible for the Solar...
15 Apr, 2021, 07.51 PM IST
US expels Russian diplomats, imposes new round of sanctionsThe moves are in response to interference in last year's presidential election as well as the hacking last year of federal government agenc...
15 Apr, 2021, 06.08 PM IST
Months after hack, US poised to announce sanctions on RussiaThe measures are to be announced Thursday, according to the official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on con...
15 Apr, 2021, 09.00 AM IST
Chinese hackers hit 30,000 US organisations in new attackTwo cybersecurity experts who have briefed US national security advisors on the attack told KrebsOnSecurity the Chinese hacking group seize...
06 Mar, 2021, 10.51 AM IST
U.S. government hack: Espionage or act of war?The hack, first reported by Reuters, hijacked software made by Texas-based SolarWinds Corp. By inserting malicious code into updates pushed...
19 Dec, 2020, 05.00 PM IST
Hackers' Broad Attack Sets Cyber Experts Worldwide Scrambling To Defend NetworksSuspected Russian hackers, who broke into US government agencies, also spied on less high-profile organisations, including groups in Britai...
19 Dec, 2020, 11.31 AM IST
US intel agencies warn cyber attack on government 'ongoing'"This is a developing situation, and while we continue to work to understand the full extent of this campaign, we know this compromise has ...
17 Dec, 2020, 12.58 PM IST
US agencies, companies secure networks after huge hackThe full extent of the damage is not yet clear. But the potential threat was significant enough that the Department of Homeland Security's ...
15 Dec, 2020, 02.21 PM IST
EXPLAINER: How bad is the hack that targeted US agencies?The hack began as early as March when malicious code was snuck into updates to popular software that monitors computer networks of business...
15 Dec, 2020, 10.38 AM IST
US government agencies including Treasury dept hacked; Russia a possible culpritThe apparent conduit for the Treasury and Commerce Department hacks - and the FireEye compromise - is a hugely popular piece of server soft...
14 Dec, 2020, 08.44 AM IST