Iranian hackers target Biden campaign with stolen Trump intel, FBI revealsThe FBI reported that Iranian hackers attempted to interfere in the 2024 US election by sending emails with stolen Trump campaign materials...
19 Sep, 2024, 06.12 AM IST
Meta says Iranian group tried to target Trump, Biden officials' WhatsApp accountsMeta reported on Friday that it identified possible hacking attempts on the WhatsApp accounts of U.S. officials from both the Biden and Tru...
24 Aug, 2024, 07.16 AM IST
US says Iran responsible for Trump campaign hackUS security agencies confirmed on Monday that Iran was behind a recent cyberattack targeting Donald Trump's presidential campaign, accusing...
20 Aug, 2024, 07.17 AM IST
News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign. They chose not to print itConfidential material from Donald Trump's campaign, including a vetting report on JD Vance, was leaked to Politico, The New York Times, and...
13 Aug, 2024, 09.59 AM IST
The hacking of presidential campaigns begins, with the usual fog of motivesOn Friday, Microsoft released a report declaring that a hacking group run by the intelligence unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard had succes...
12 Aug, 2024, 11.35 AM IST
Donald Trump's presidential campaign says its emails were hacked, blames IranDonald Trump's campaign claimed a hack and suspected Iranian involvement in the theft of internal documents. This followed a Microsoft repo...
11 Aug, 2024, 10.21 AM IST
Microsoft says it caught hackers from China, Russia and Iran using its AI toolsMicrosoft said in its report it had tracked hacking groups affiliated with Russian military intelligence, Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and t...
15 Feb, 2024, 08.57 AM IST
Israel-Gaza conflict: Hacktivist groups target Israeli assets, Jerusalem PostExamples of serious or long-term damage are still thin, but the activism shows how a subset of supporters use digital tools to bring the wa...
11 Oct, 2023, 04.31 PM IST
Iranian hackers target defence, satellite firms to gather secrets: MicrosoftThe heavy sanctions imposed by the US on Iran have limited their access to military hardware and discouraged Western companies from sending...
17 Sep, 2023, 10.58 AM IST
Hackers targeting tech supply chains spur security startup boomIn 2020, for example, hackers suspected of working for Russia’s intelligence services used tampered updates from software maker SolarWinds ...
20 Oct, 2022, 09.17 AM IST
Microsoft disables hackers working with Iranian intelligenceMicrosoft suspended more than 20 malicious OneDrive applications created by Polonium actors, notified affected organisations, and deployed ...
04 Jun, 2022, 11.43 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
US charges 5 Chinese citizens in global hacking campaignThe five defendants remain fugitives, but prosecutors say two Malaysian businessmen charged with conspiring with the alleged hackers to pro...
17 Sep, 2020, 02.11 PM IST
Russia and China dismiss Microsoft allegations of bids to hack Biden and Trump campsThe Microsoft report, which also mentioned Iran, came as Reuters revealed one of Biden's main campaign advisory firms had been warned by th...
11 Sep, 2020, 06.53 PM IST
State-based hackers targeted Donald Trump, Joe Biden campaigns: GoogleA Chinese group known as Hurricane Panda targeted Trump campaign staffers while an Iranian outfit known as Charming Kitten had attempted to...
05 Jun, 2020, 08.47 AM IST
US accuses China of 'super aggressive' spy campaign on LinkedInIt is highly unusual for a senior U.S. intelligence official to single out an American-owned company by name and publicly recommend it take...
31 Aug, 2018, 10.03 PM IST
- The workings of a surreptitious worm
Well, if you feel a bit regretful that humanity missed the boat to catastrophe last time round, help may be at hand. Stuxnet is here.
02 Dec, 2010, 07.03 AM IST