A top U.S. cybersecurity official said Israel has avoided significant cyberattacks since Hamas' invasion Saturday but said that wouldn't necessarily be America's experience should armed conflict break out with China. "There have not been significant cyberattacks as of right now," said Brandon Wales.
The violent surprise attack on Israel by Hamas and the region's escalating war spotlights the critical importance of situational awareness, and especially for healthcare organizations that rely on medical or tech products from Israeli technology firms, said Denise Anderson, president of the H-ISAC.
Amnesty International says the Vietnamese government is likely behind a wave of attempted Predator spyware infections against targets including members of the U.S. Congress and European officials. Central to the campaign was an account on social media network X (formerly Twitter).
Pentera got through the attacks on Israel with no injuries among its 180 local employees, and now 20 workers have been called up to serve in infantry or intelligence units. The automated security validation firm's CEO now only wants to do business with people who support Israel's right to defend itself.
Cybersecurity companies across the globe are now preparing for a sizable chunk of their Israel-based workforce to be drafted into the country's military reserves. They've also in recent days taken steps to support their workers or the country at large.
Self-proclaimed hacktivist groups have been attempting to insert themselves into the narrative surrounding the latest war between Israel and Hamas, claiming to have hacked organizations, leaked stolen data and disrupted websites. Experts say many but not all such hype-seeking claims are bogus.
A Chinese nation state hacking group is exploiting a zero-day flaw in Atlassian's Confluence Data Center and Server products as part a campaign spotted in mid-September, Microsoft researchers say. The company attributes the campaign to a Chinese nation-state hacking group designates Storm-0062.
Just days after the unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel, Zscaler CISO Sam Curry discusses the intertwined nature of cyber warfare and physical conflicts and how the conflict can quickly escalate to the global stage, harm globalized economies and devolve into digital chaos.
North Korea's state-sponsored hackers continue to refine their "cyber intrusions to conduct both espionage and financial crime to project power and to finance both their cyber and kinetic capabilities," says a new report from Google's Mandiant group.
A previously undetected cyberespionage group spied against Taiwanese government agencies and the island-country's manufacturing sector, say cybersecurity researchers. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team says it likely operates "from a region with a strategic interest in Taiwan."
Israeli intelligence is considered one of the best, yet it failed to anticipate a major attack launched by Hamas over the weekend. Harvard professor Chuck Freilich said this oversight has had a profound impact on the Israeli people, "shattering what was very deep faith in the intelligence agencies."
How did Israeli intelligence fail to spot and stop the deadly assault on Saturday by Hamas militants? Experts suggest planners used offline tactics and extreme compartmentalization to prevent leaks and evade well-known Israeli cyberespionage and digital surveillance capabilities.
Israeli cybersecurity leaders reacted Saturday with shock, defiance and resolve to an unprecedented land, sea and air assault by Palestinian militants from Gaza. Much of the Israeli cybersecurity community's anger stems from the deliberate targeting of children and the elderly by Hamas militants.
The government of a Caribbean nation was the target of a cyberespionage campaign that has indicators of Chinese origin. Cybersecurity firm Eset says attackers used a previously undocumented backdoor as well as traditional hacking tools to target an unidentified "governmental entity" in Guyana.
Government-sponsored cyberespionage campaigns and information operations are on the rise - and not just due to efforts by Russia and China, Microsoft warns in its latest Digital Defense Report review of top nation-state and cybercrime attack trends.
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