The statement comes after US-based cybersecurity firm FireEye claimed in March that the APT40 hacking group conducted a cyber espionage operation targeting crucial technologies to bolster China's navy. Pompeo accused China of stealing intellectual property related to artificial Intelligence, space technologies, and ballistic areas, among others, for military purposes. READ MORE: Cyber Assaults May Constitute ‘Armed Attack' Under US-Japanese Treaty — Pompeo CC0Pompeo Claims Russia Present in Latin America to Be Closer to US to Conduct Cyber OpsIn December, the US Department of Justice indicted two Chinese citizens for hacking and compromising clients in the United States and 11 other countries, including Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. US authorities did not disclose specific companies the hackers targeted, but said … [Read more...] about China to Conduct More Cyber Attacks Against US
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Bitdefender: Romania, the most vulnerable country in the word to new cyber attack that steals users’ banking data
Bitdefender’s cyber security specialists have discovered an aggressive threat hidden on infected devices that can access all the user’s personal data. “Known as Scranos, the threat has rapidly spread globally, with intense activity in Romania, India, Brazil, France, Italy and Indonesia. Scranos infects the device through apps that appear legitimate, like e-readers, video players, drivers, and security solutions”, Bitdefender representatives say in a press release. Once installed, Scranos hides with the help of a software driver called rootkit, and spies on the victim. This way it can extract data from Google Chrome, Chromium, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Baidu Browser and Yandex. The threat can also extract payment data from Facebook, Amazon and Airbnb, and send friend requests and messages with infected links from the victim’s Facebook account and subscribe the victim to certain YouTube channels. “Some of the YouTube … [Read more...] about Bitdefender: Romania, the most vulnerable country in the word to new cyber attack that steals users’ banking data
Ecuador says hit by 40 million cyber attacks since Assange arrest
Ecuador said on Monday it has suffered 40 million cyber attacks on the webpages of public institutions since stripping Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of political asylum. Patricio Real, Ecuador's deputy minister for information and communication technologies, said the attacks, which began on Thursday, had "principally come from the United States, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Romania, France, Austria and the United Kingdom," as well as from the South American country itself. Assange was arrested and carried out of Ecuador's embassy in London on Thursday after President Lenin Moreno removed his diplomatic protection following seven years of self-imposed exile in the building. Moreno accused Assange of interfering in the "processes of other states" and "spying." As well as overturning Assange's asylum status, Ecuador stripped him of the nationality he was given in 2017 under the government of Moreno's predecessor Rafael Correa. Javier Jara, undersecretary of the electronic government … [Read more...] about Ecuador says hit by 40 million cyber attacks since Assange arrest
Microsoft alerts EU democracy groups to cyber attacks ahead of elections
News by Press Association 20/02/2019, 12:34 pm Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter Microsoft has detected cyber attacks targeting think tanks and non-profit organisations across Europe in the lead-up to European Parliament elections. Between September and December, the computing firm discovered that more than 100 accounts belonging to organisations’ employees in Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Romania and Serbia had been attacked, which the company believes was carried out by a group called Strontium. “We quickly notified each of these organisations when we discovered they were targeted so they could take steps to secure their systems, and we took a variety of technical measures to protect customers from these attacks,” Microsoft said. In a bid to prevent further attacks, the company announced it was expanding the availability of its Microsoft AccountGuard detection and notification system to eligible organisations, at no … [Read more...] about Microsoft alerts EU democracy groups to cyber attacks ahead of elections
Angela Merkel, German politicians targeted in major cyber attack
Date created : 04/01/2019 - 16:05 Private data stolen from hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have been released online, the German government said on Friday. The information, which comprised home addresses, mobile phone numbers, letters, invoices and copies of identity documents, was published via Twitter in December but inexplicably only came to light this week.It was not immediately clear whether the officials were targeted by hackers or were the victims of an internal leak.“Personal data and documents belonging to hundreds of politicians and public figures were published on the internet,” government spokeswoman Martina Fietz told reporters, confirming that Merkel was one of them.“The government is taking this incident very seriously.”Among those affected were members of the Bundestag lower house of parliament, and the European Parliament, as well as those from regional and local assemblies, she said.Alarm in BerlinBut … [Read more...] about Angela Merkel, German politicians targeted in major cyber attack