France, Cyber Operations and Sovereignty: The ‘Purist’ Approach to Sovereignty and Contradictory State Practice
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks at an event in 2017. (Jaques Pacquier, https://flic.kr/p/2frCTie; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
In the context of cyber operations, there is a debate between those who consider sovereignty to be an underlying principle of international law from which other primary rules emanate, and those who consider it to be a primary rule of customary international law that can be violated by cyber operations resulting in an internationally wrongful act. The application of rights inherent in sovereignty are particularly important in the cyber domain because the vast majority of cyber operations occur below the threshold of a prohibited use of force. The nonbinding 2013 and 2015 reports of the U.N. Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of Inter
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Ryuk ransom note (Source: Coveware, Malwarebytes)
Prolific Ryuk ransomware has a new trick up its sleeve. The developers behind the notorious strain of crypto-locking malware have given their attack code the ability to spread itself between systems inside an infected network. A Ryuk sample with worm-like capabilities - allowing it to spread automatically within networks it infects - was discovered during an incident response handled by ANSSI in early 2021, according to a Ryuk report issued Thursday by CERT-FR, the French government s computer emergency readiness team that s part of the National Cybersecurity Agency of France, or ANSSI.
Specifically, the worm-like behavior is achieved through the use of scheduled tasks, via which the malware propagates itself - machine to machine - within the Windows domain, CERT-FR says. Once launched, it will thus spread itself on every reachable machine on which Windows RPC accesses are possible. Remote procedure calls are a mechanism fo
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Pfizer did not immediately respond to Information Security Media Group s request for comment.
In addition to the report of Pfizer being targeted, South Korea s National Intelligence Service claims to have foiled attempts by North Korea to hack into South Korean firms developing coronavirus vaccines, Reuters reports.
Seeking a Profit?
North Korea has been accused of turning to an army of hackers to fill its cash-strapped coffers amid international sanctions that ban most international trade with it, Reuters reports. So, some health experts speculate that he country s hackers appear more interested in selling the stolen data than using it to develop a homegrown vaccine.