“The cyber criminals now running the Conti ransomware-as-a-service have historically targeted critical infrastructure, such as the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), prior to Conti campaigns, and the advisory highlights actions organizations can take right now to counter the threat,” Rob Joyce, director of Cybersecurity at NSA, said in a statement Wednesday. “We highly recommend using the...
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FSB: O Maior Serviço de Segurança da Europa
FSB in English | FSB in Russian A FSB, o maior serviço de segurança da Europa, supostamente emprega 66.000 funcionários uniformizados. Estabelecida em 1994, a FSB evoluiu a partir da KGB da era comunista. É a equivalente russa do FBI americano e da Patrulha de Fronteira juntos. As principais responsabilidades da FSB são controlar as...
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Cyberwar Pits Coders of MI6 against Huawei
The West’s war on Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, continues. The West v. Huawei is a war on two fronts It is a struggle about intelligence war–who will control the flow of information?–and it is an economic war–whose companies will dominate global markets? It’s cyber-econo war. President Trump’s actions, supported by the U.S. intelligence community,...
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Iran Awaits U.S. Vote With Strategic Patience, Tactical Interference
During the final US presidential debate on October 23, Democratic nominee Joe Biden threatened retaliation against those foreign actors that seek to interfere in the American electoral process and undermine voter confidence in its integrity. “They will pay a price if I’m elected,” the former US Vice President warned, specifically naming Russia, China and Iran....
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Six GRU Officers Charged With Cyber Attacks on Ukraine, South Korea, and French Elections
From the U.S. Department of Justice: These GRU hackers and their co-conspirators engaged in computer intrusions and attacks intended to support Russian government efforts to undermine, retaliate against, or otherwise destabilize: (1) Ukraine; (2) Georgia; (3) elections in France; (4) efforts to hold Russia accountable for its use of a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok, on...
