Ukraine’s Security Service said on Dec. 30 it has stopped Russian hackers from breaking into the computer systems of a range of Ukrainian government bodies and critical infrastructure, according to the Kyiv Post.
The country has been attacked the past two years in December. A new strike could have major implications for cybersecurity in the U.S., according to The Atlantic.
A Russian hacker believed to be a member of a hacking collective called Lurk said in court over the summer that he was ordered by Russia's security services, known as the FSB, to hack the Democratic National Committee, Business Insider reports.
The Justice Department has identified more than six members of the Russian government involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee's computers and swiping sensitive information that became public during the 2016 presidential election, according to people familiar with the investigation, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton's campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained by The Associated Press (AP).
The west is failing to get to grips with Russian hacking and fake news, the Latvian foreign minister, Edgars Rinkevics, has said, according to The Guardian.
Ukrainian cyber security firm ISSP said on Tuesday it may have detected a new computer virus distribution campaign, after security services said Ukraine could face cyber attacks similar to those which knocked out global systems in June, Reuters reports.
When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine, Dmytro Shymkiv, switched jobs to become a Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in 2014, he found that everyone in the office used the same login password. It wasn't the only symptom of lax IT security in a country suffering crippling cyberattacks, Reuters reports.
Hackers working for a foreign government recently breached at least a dozen U.S. power plants, including the Wolf Creek nuclear facility in Kansas, according to current and former U.S. officials, sparking concerns the attackers were searching for vulnerabilities in the electrical grid, according to Bloomberg.
The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine claims that Russia's special services have been sending out e-mails on its behalf.
Qatar has released an initial report into the alleged cyber attack on its state-owned news agency, an incident that triggered the country's diplomatic crisis with the neighboring Arab nations, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
There is a "realistic possibility" Russia might try to interfere in Britain's national election next month, according to Boris Johnson, Britain's foreign secretary, Newsweek reported citing Johnson's interview with The Telegraph.
Leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a "massive" computer hack that dumped its campaign emails online 1-1/2 days before voters choose between the centrist and his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, according to Reuters.