Ransomware Morphs Again We know that ransomware has gone through a lot of iterations over the last couple of years as hackers try to maximize their revenue. The BlackCat group is now creating public websites for each victim company and has indexed the data to make it easy to search. I guess this means that […]
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The Vault 7 leak, in which Wikileaks posted information about a large number of CIA hacking tools was possibly the worst national security compromise the Agency has ever seen. Not only did it reveal our techniques for hacking foreign systems but the hackers repurposed those tools and hacked American and other friendly companies and governments. […]
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Russia Behind Cyberattacks on Country of Georgia Last Year The State Department and the UK say that Russia was behind the attack on over ten thousand websites in the Country of Georgia last year. They also formally attributed Sandworm (AKA Voodoo Bear, Telebots and BlackEnergy) to Russia’s GRU Unit 74455. Sandworm is the group responsible […]
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In the ongoing Wikileaks Vault 7 series of leaks, there is a new leak called ExpressLane. According to the documents released by Wikileaks, the CIA offers a partnership with other law enforcement and government agencies in which those partners can share biometric data such as fingerprints with the CIA. The CIA does this by offering […]
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In the continuing saga of Vault 7 – the leaking of CIA hacking tools, Wikileaks made Mac, Linux and Unix users feel welcome. Instead of leaking Windows and Android malicious code, they leaked Mac, Linux and Unix tools instead. I guess they are equal opportunity leakers. In this case they just leaked the manuals so […]
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When was the last time you patched your Internet router? Probably never. That is what the CIA is counting on. As well as foreign governments and just plain hackers. But when it comes to the CIA, they are probably not interested in you. That may not be the case when it comes to the other […]
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