“The State Department is purchasing some very specific phone hacking tools that it plans to turn over to the Ghanaian police force to assist the country’s investigations into international crime. The department released a solicitation Dec. 7 for phone hacking tools and hardware that are interope...
“Operation Sharpshooter uses a new implant to target mainly English-speaking nuclear, defense, energy and financial companies. Researchers have detected a widespread reconnaissance campaign using a never-before-seen implant framework to infiltrate global defense and critical infrastructure players...
“Several critical infrastructure organizations in Russia have been targeted by hackers believed to be financially-motivated cybercriminals rather than state-sponsored cyberspies. An analysis of malicious Word documents led researchers at endpoint security firm Cylance to discover fake websites set...
How do you compare and test the efficacy of cybersecurity products and companies when the information is proprietary? In many situations, you cannot. The research division of DHS is currently trying to understand how comparisons could be possible that are based on rational actor notions. With cybers...
“More than 40,000 users victims of phishing attacks had their credentials for unlocking online accounts for government services stolen…the login data offered access to services in 30 countries around the world. Most of the victims are in Europe. More than half of the victims are from Italy (52%)...
“Open-source researchers often use satellite images, especially across multiple providers, to uncover information that is otherwise difficult to obtain. In November 2017, the World Bank released an analysis of satellite footage of ISIS-held territory to reveal that the statelet was struggling to p...
“The shuttering of a widely used military file-sharing service last month has left the services without an online option for transferring sensitive unclassified files, so they’re turning to CDs, DVDs, postal mail and even fax machines. Both the Navy and Marine Corps issued official guidance late...
“‘Cyber insurance is a growth market for the industry today,’ said Sasha Romanosky, an expert at the RAND Corporation, a private research organization. He estimated that the current market size is around $2 billion in the United States, which may seem like a small size for an industry worth an...