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Even Small Nations Have Jumped into the Cyber Espionage Game While the media tends to focus on the Big 5 nation-state cyber powers, commercial spyware has given smaller countries sophisticated capabilities, as demonstrated by a "zero-click" iMessage exploit that targeted journalists last year. Driven by the accessibility of commercial spyware and surveillance tools, sophisticated attacks using a variety of zero-click exploits — attacks that don't require user interaction — are increasingly within the reach of smaller nations, according to The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory b...

Road to IPO: Coinbase’s Power Struggles “Some people lead by loyalty and inspiration. Balaji [Srinivasan] leads by fear and by money,” says Nathalie McGrath who, as Coinbase’s VP of People, watched as infighting engulfed the company.  Balaji’s style as he led the charge for a non-corporate vision of crypto was abrasive but effective. For someone who by all accounts did not work well with others, [Coinbase’s former CTO] was remarkably good at office politics. Anyone in his way got edged aside with alacrity. Balaji either fired them outright or, through back-office maneuvering, str...

"Novel techniques" used by the attackers cheated security tools and forensics, according to FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia. The cybersecurity firm best known for its incident response (IR) chops today said it had been breached by nation-state attackers who hacked into its systems and stole its red team tools. FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia revealed the hack in a blog post this afternoon, noting the company had contacted the FBI and is working with both the bureau and Microsoft in an investigation of the attack. "This attack is different from the tens of thousands of incidents we have responded to through...

FireEye breach explained: How worried should businesses be? The theft of red team tools, allegedly by Russia's Cozy Bear group, poses only a small threat to other organisations. The real lesson: Anyone can be hacked Credit: FireEye Cyber security firm FireEye announced on Tuesday that a sophisticated group of hackers, likely state-sponsored, broke into its network and stole tools the company's experts developed to simulate real attackers and test the security of its customers. While this is a worrying development, it's unlikely that this will result in a significant risk increas...

Aggressively sought western technology for it's cyber programs. two years ago, wikileaks released as trove of e-mails stolen from an italian company called hacking team. >> reporter: those e-mails revealed that hacking team's sophisticated software which allows governments to spy on internet users were obtained by this research institute called grant. it's controlled by russia's state security service, the fsb. >> reporter: one of the italian executive wrote of their business relationship, they're already testing our products and we're going arrange with their support a visit to mos dmou may, ...