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Attack on aviation: GPS spoofers 'hack time' on commercial airlines

Recently, an aircraft operated by a major Western airline had its onboard clocks suddenly sent forward by years, causing the plane to lose access to its digitally-encrypted communication systems

Hackers leak documents from US Pentagon's IT provider Leidos, probe begins

Leidos recently learned of the issue and believes the documents were stolen in a previously disclosed breach of a Diligent Corp. system it used, said the person, who asked not to be identified

Microsoft adds security chiefs to product groups in wake of hackings

The software giant said it is adding deputy chief information security officers within its product groups, while declining to identify the new officials

Hackers subverted security devices to spy on governments, says Cisco

In a statement, the company said it urged customers to take immediate action to update their software. It did not give further details on the breaches, which it said dated back to earlier this year

US, UK accuse China over spy campaign that may have hit millions

Britain's government is expected to blame a string of cyberattacks targeting the U.K.'s election watchdog and lawmakers on hackers linked to the Chinese government, Officials are expected to announce Monday measures against cyber organizations and individuals affiliated with the Chinese government for an attack that may have gained access to information on tens of millions of U.K. voters held by the Electoral Commission, as well as cyberattacks targeting lawmakers who have been outspoken about the China threat. The Electoral Commission said in August that it identified a cyberattack on its system in October 2022, though it added that hostile actors had first been able to access its servers since 2021. At the time, the watchdog said the data included the names and addresses of registered voters. But it added that much of the information was already in the public domain, and that possessing such information was unlikely to influence election results. Separately, three lawmakers, ...

Leaked files show secret world of China's hackers for hire: Report

The offerings, detailed in leaked documents, were a portion of the hacking tools and data caches sold by a Chinese security firm called I-Soon

Law enforcement agencies infiltrate, disrupt ransomware group LockBit

Law-enforcement agencies have infiltrated and disrupted Lockbit, a prolific ransomware syndicate behind cyberattacks around the world, Britain's National Crime Agency said Tuesday. The agency said it led an international operation targeting LockBit, which provides ransomware as a service to so-called affiliates who infect victim networks with the computer-crippling malware and negotiate ransoms. The group has been linked to thousands of attacks since 2019. Hours before the announcement, the front page of LockBit's site was replaced with the words this site is now under control of law enforcement, alongside the flags of the UK, the US and several other nations. The message said the website was under the control of the UK's National Crime Agency working in close cooperation with the FBI and the international law enforcement task force, Operation Cronos." It says it is an ongoing and developing operation that also involves agencies from Germany, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand a

Chinese hackers determined to 'wreak havoc' on US infrastructure: FBI chief

Chinese government hackers are busily targeting water treatment plants, the electrical grid, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure inside the United States, FBI Director Chris Wray told House lawmakers Wednesday in a fresh warning from Washington about Beijing's global ambitions. Underscoring the threat, the Justice Department and FBI announced just before the hearing that they had disrupted a botnet of hundreds of US-based small office and home routers owned by private citizens and companies and hijacked by the Chinese state hackers to cover their tracks and hide their origin as they sowed the malware. Speaking before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Wray said there's been far too little public focus on a cyber threat that affects every American". China's hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if or when China decides the time has co

Sony's video game plans leaked by Rhysida ransomware group: Report

Sony-owned Insomniac Games' more than 1.3 million files, including game roadmaps, budgets and information about an upcoming "Wolverine" title, have been leaked online by the Rhysida ransomware group

What is LockBit, the group that hacked world's biggest bank

LockBit has gained infamy for its recent attack on the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), disrupting US Treasury market trades. Watch the video to know about this group >

Ransomware gang Lockbit posts what it says is Boeing data on website

Lockbit has proven prolific in the ransomware space in recent months. Just this week, it is suspected to have attacked Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd

Russia-linked hackers claim responsibility for OpenAI outage this week

The group presents itself as a "hacktivist" gang that is waging attacks out of Africa on behalf of oppressed Muslims worldwide

Govt starts hackathon to fight dark patterns on e-commerce websites

Dark patterns are defined as practices or deceptive design patterns using user interface/user experience interactions on any platform, designed to mislead or trick users

US plans to push other countries not to pay hacker ransoms ahead of meeting

The aim of the statement is to change that calculus, Neuberger said. "Ransom payments are what's driving ransomware," she said. "That's the reason we think it's so needed."

Rs 16,180 cr siphoned off after hacking of payment gateway company account

A group of persons allegedly hacked into a payment gateway service provider company's account and siphoned off funds worth over Rs 16,180 crore from different bank accounts over a period of time, the Thane police said. The fraud was taking place since long and came to light following a complaint lodged with Srinagar police station in Maharashtra's Thane city of hacking of the payment gateway account of the company here in April 2023 and Rs 25 crore being siphoned off, an official from Naupada police station said. When the police conducted a probe into it, a mega fraud worth over Rs 16,180 crore came to light, the official said quoting the FIR. Following a complaint by a Thane crime branch official, the Naupada police here on Friday registered the FIR against Sanjay Singh, Amol Andale @ Aman, Kedar @ Sameer Dighe, Jitendra Pandey and another unidentified person under Indian Penal Code sections 420 (cheating), 409 (criminal breach of trust), 467, 468 (forgery), 120B (criminal ...

Chatbots: Hackers trick AI with 'bad Math' to expose flaws, biases

Hunched over 156 laptops for 50 minutes at a time, the attendees are battling some of the world's most intelligent platforms on an unprecedented scale

Hackers may have access to information on millions of British voters: EC

Hackers may have information on tens of millions of British voters after they got access to electoral registers, the UK's election watchdog said on Tuesday nearly a year after the breach was discovered. The Electoral Commission apologized for the breach but said much of the information was already in the public domain and that the names and addresses of people who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022 was unlikely to be used by hostile actors to sway election results. The UK's democratic process is significantly dispersed and key aspects of it remain based on paper documentation and counting," said Shaun McNally, the commission's chief executive. This means it would be very hard to use a cyber-attack to influence the process." The commission reported the breach to the Information Commissioner's Office within three days of discovering it last October. The Guardian quoted the commission as saying that it did not report the attack immediately to the public because it needed to bre

Cannot confirm leakage: Japan as report of Chinese hacking surfaces

Japan's slow response to improve its cyber network could impede greater intelligence sharing between the Pentagon and Japan's Defence Ministry, the Washington Post said

China-based hackers breached govt agencies, individual accounts: Microsoft

China called a Microsoft report that a China-based hacking group breached government-linked email accounts disinformation, saying Wednesday that the accusation was meant to divert attention from US cyber activities. In a blog post published Tuesday, Microsoft said the group, which it identified as Storm-0558, gained access to email accounts linked to 25 organisations, including Western European government agencies. The breach was detected weeks later when customers complained to Microsoft about abnormal mail activity. We assess this adversary is focused on espionage, such as gaining access to email systems for intelligence collection, Charlie Bell, Microsoft's executive vice president of security, said in a separate Microsoft post. A Washington Post report cited a statement from US officials claiming Storm-0558 also breached unclassified email accounts linked to the US government. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, said the accusation was disinformation aimed at ..

China-backed hackers exploited Barracuda zero-day to target govt: Report

The researchers attributed the hacks to UNC4841, an unclassified threat group that shares infrastructure and malware code with other China-backed hacking groups