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National Cyber Security Centre urges operators of critical national infrastructure to prevent hacksThe UK’s cybersecurity agency has urged operators of critical national infrastructure, including energy and telecommunications networks, to prevent Chine…
The files shed new light on how Washington snoops on allies and foes alike to further its unipolar world agendaA cache of classified US documents leaked online last month has shed light on American intelligence gathered about other countries.Images of the covert files initially appeared on the messaging app Discord in January, but went unnoticed until March. Discord later put out an official
BND intelligence service is finding expectations of flexible working and taking a mobile to the office are affecting recruitmentJames Bond was famously given the licence to kill by MI6, as part of his role as a British secret agent.Today’s wannabe spie…
Robert Shonov was reportedly detained in Vladivostok, site of his former employment, and is being held in MoscowRussia’s FSB security service has charged a former employee of the US consulate in the far eastern city of Vladivostok with illegal covert c…
Reuters is reporting that the FBI “had identified and disabled malware wielded by Russia’s FSB security service against an undisclosed number of American computers, a move they hoped would deal a death blow to one of Russia’s leading cyber spying programs.”
The headline says that the FBI “sabotaged” the malware, which seems to be wrong.
Presumably we will learn more soon.
EDITED TO ADD: New York Times story.
EDITED TO ADD: Maybe “sabotaged” is the right word. The FBI hacked the malware so that it disabled itself.
Despite the bravado of its developers, Snake is among the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever found, the FBI said. The modular design, custom encryption layers, and high-caliber quality of the code base have made it hard if not impossible for antivirus software to detect. As FBI agents continued to monitor Snake, however, they slowly uncovered some surprising weaknesses. For one, there was a critical cryptographic key with a prime length of just 128 bits, making it vulnerable to factoring attacks that expose the secret key. This weak key was used in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges that allowed each infected machine to have a unique key when communicating with another machine…
A DRDO scientist, who was working in one of the facilities of DRDO in Pune, has been arrested by ATS on the charges of espionage, ANI reported. He was found to have had contact with the operatives of Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency through social media via WhatsApp messages, voice calls, video etc, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) said. The ATS said this was a case of honeytrap.The Anti-Terrorism
Michael Chong accused Trudeau’s government of turning blind eye while Chinese diplomat gathered information in CanadaA Canadian lawmaker has accused government officials of turning a blind eye to Chinese harassment of his family as pressure mounts on J…
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
Everything from the gamer leaker to the global spread of potential sources reveals much about the anxiety-making conditions of 21st-century espionageAfter TS (top secret), two other letters repeatedly stand out throughout the leaked Pentagon files: SI….
Washington: A leaked U.S. military assessment says the Chinese military may soon deploy a high-altitude spy drone that travels at least three times the speed of sound, the Washington Post reported late on Tuesday.The newspaper cited a secret document from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.The document, which Reuters could not confirm or verify independently, features satellite imagery