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Microsoft and the US judiciary have succeeded in striking a blow against a Russian hacker group targeting journalists and non-governmental organizations.
Cooperation with APT Group InvisiMole
ESET has carried out an analysis of the activities of the Russian hacker group Gamaredon, which currently poses the greatest threat to Ukraine in cyberspace.
In the course of the research, it was also discovered that NATO countries such as Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have been attacked – albeit
Motifs unknown
The French news agency AFP has been hit by a cyber attack.
The attack on the information system of Agence France-Presse, which also affected parts of the transmission technology to customers, was discovered on Friday, the agency announced in Paris.
Employee protection comes first
Hackers have captured the names and contact details of all Dutch police officers, including undercover officers.
Shortly before it-sa
According to information from an anonymous source that has been available to it-daily.net since midday, NürnbergMesse has been the victim of a phishing attack.
Data is said to have been accessed in the process.
The exhibition company has now also confirmed the attack.
Thousands of mobile phone customers in Sweden received text messages in the summer of 2023 calling for revenge for the Koran burnings at the time.
It is now clear who is behind the text messages.
Sowing discord
US intelligence agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have published new findings about the hacker access from Iran to internal communications of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign team that became public in August.
Offline calculator
Experts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have hacked offline computers – i.e. systems that are not connected to a network such as the Internet.
Microsoft Office alternative
The IT security provider ESET has discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Office alternative WPS Office for Windows.
The vulnerability CVE-2024-7262 in the Office application enabled the hacker group APT-C-60 to use an exploit to execute foreign code on its victims’ devices.
700,000 US dollars in Bitcoin
Computer engineer Daniel Rhyne is said to have launched a massive cyberattack against his own employer.
Rhyne, who worked as a virtual machine (VM) expert at the company, used his position to secretly create a virtual machine on the company’s network.