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UnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage

Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems and various services after a cyberattack by "nation-state" hackers on the Change Healthcare platform.
- Bill Toulas
- February 23, 2024
- 04:41 AM
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Security researchers targeted with new malware via job offers on LinkedIn

A suspected North Korean hacking group is targeting security researchers and media organizations in the U.S. and Europe with fake job offers that lead to the deployment of three new, custom malware families.
- Bill Toulas
- March 10, 2023
- 12:48 PM
- 0
News Corp discloses hack from "persistent" nation state cyber attacks

American media and publishing giant News Corp has disclosed today that it was the target of a "persistent" cyberattack. The attack discovered sometime this January, reportedly allowed threat actors to access emails and documents of some News Corp employees, including journalists.
- Ax Sharma
- February 04, 2022
- 09:03 AM
- 0
US bans China Telecom Americas over national security risks

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revoked China Telecom Americas' license to provide telecommunication services within the United States.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 27, 2021
- 11:15 AM
- 1
Microsoft now defends nonprofits against nation-state attacks

Microsoft announced today a new security program for nonprofits to provide them with protection against nation-state attacks that have increasingly targeting them in recent years.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 21, 2021
- 01:23 PM
- 1
Microsoft: Russian state hackers behind 53% of attacks on US govt agencies

Microsoft says that Russian-sponsored hacking groups are increasingly targeting US government agencies, with roughly 58% of all nation-state attacks observed by Microsoft between July 2020 and June 2021 coming from Russia.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 08, 2021
- 07:04 AM
- 4
Russian state hackers use new TinyTurla malware as secondary backdoor

Russian state-sponsored hackers known as the Turla APT group have been using new malware over the past year that acted as a secondary persistence method on compromised systems in the U.S., Germany, and Afghanistan.
- Ionut Ilascu
- September 21, 2021
- 11:54 AM
- 0
US govt offers $10 million reward for tips on nation-state hackers

The United States government has taken two more active measures to fight and defend against malicious cyber activities affecting the country's business and critical infrastructure sectors.
- Ionut Ilascu
- July 16, 2021
- 02:46 PM
- 0
Pro-India hackers use Android spyware to spy on Pakistani military

This week a report has revealed details on the two spyware strains leveraged by state-sponsored threat actors during the India-Pakistan conflict. The malware strains named Hornbill and SunBird have been delivered as fake Android apps (APKs) by the Confucius advanced persistent threat group (APT), a state-sponsored operation.
- Ax Sharma
- February 14, 2021
- 12:12 PM
- 0
Microsoft to alert Office 365 users of nation-state hacking activity

Microsoft will soon notify Office 365 of suspected nation-state hacking activity detected within their tenants according to a new listing on the company's Microsoft 365 roadmap.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 08, 2021
- 08:52 AM
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How public safety systems can be abused by nation state actors

Open systems, open data, and open-source software provide a means to promote greater transparency, public trust, and user participation. But what happens when adversaries can abuse the same systems?
- Ax Sharma
- June 30, 2020
- 03:30 AM
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