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It’s been 40 years since Lisa Donnan has queued for gas. But last month the cybersecurity expert found herself joining the long lines of cars across the east coast of the US looking for fuel after the latest in a series of cyber-attacks had shut down the pipeline that provides fuel to 45% of the region. “The last time I did that was in the Iran crisis,” she said. “My dad had to wait with me.” The hack of the Colonial Pipeline was just one of a...

"Technically, a lot of these tools that are being leveraged for ransomware are tools that were leaked from our own organization," one cybersecurity official told Newsweek on the condition of

A Chinese group "cloned" code stolen from the National Security Agency years before a security flaw was fixed, researchers said this week.

A Chinese group known as APT31 … somehow gained access to and used a Windows-hacking tool known as EpMe created by the Equation Group … widely understood to be a part of the NSA. … The Chinese hackers then used that tool … from 2015 until March 2017, when Microsoft patched the vulnerability. … APT31 had access to the … privilege escalation exploit … long before the late 2016 and early 2017 Shadow Brokers leaks. … APT31's [version] appears to have been built by someone with hands-on access to the Equation Group's compiled program. And Kieren McCarthy wonders...

Get Permission A Chinese hacking group reportedly "cloned" and deployed a zero-day exploit developed by the U.S. National Security Agency's Equation Group before Microsoft patched the Windows vulnerability that was being exploited in 2017, according to an analysis published Monday by Check Point Research. For several years, researchers had suspected the Chinese hacking group known as APT31 or Zirconium had developed an exploit tool to take advantage of a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-0005 and found in older versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 and Windows 8, according to the report. Th...