CISA s Top 30 Bugs: One s Old Enough to Buy Beer threatpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from threatpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The alert does not point to any specific new and recent threats or attacks from APT29 (aka Cozy Bear, Dukes, and Yttrium) targeting organizations in these sectors. But it does note the longstanding threat the group has posed to US organizations and the group s use of customized tools to maximize stealth and to move laterally within victim networks. Since at least 2018, the group has shifted from predominantly targeting on-premises assets to targeting cloud-hosted email and other cloud resources, the three agencies say. [SVR] will continue to seek intelligence from US and foreign entities through cyber exploitation, using a range of initial exploitation techniques that vary in sophistication, coupled with stealthy intrusion tradecraft within compromised networks, the alert notes.
Biden sanctions Russia over SolarWinds cyber attacks computerweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from computerweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Biden administration issued sanctions against six Russian technology companies for helping the country’s intelligence agencies carry out malicious cyber activities including the SolarWinds hack.
The private and state-owned companies were accused Thursday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury of enabling the Russian Intelligence Services’ cyber activities. The six companies support the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Main Intelligence Directive (GRU) and Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) by providing expertise, developing tools and infrastructure, and facilitating malicious cyberattacks.
“The U.S. Department of the Treasury is announcing sanctions against … companies that support the malign activities of the Russian intelligence services responsible for the SolarWinds intrusion and other recent cyber incidents,” Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, said in a press statement Thursday. “These sanctions will serve to reduce Russian resources available to c
NSA: 5 Security Bugs Under Active Nation-State Cyberattack threatpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from threatpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.