Network World

NSA’s plans reportedly involve infecting millions of computers with surveillance malware

The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly been working for the past several years on expanding its ability to infect computers with surveillance malware and creating a command-and-control ...
Homeland Security Today

Three Former U.S. Intelligence Community and Military Personnel to Pay $1.68M Hacking Fine

On Sept. 7, U.S. citizens, Marc Baier, 49, and Ryan Adams, 34, and a former U.S. citizen, Daniel Gericke, 40, all former employees of the U.S. Intelligence Community ...
Computerworld

The NSA not only creates, but also hijacks, malware with Quantumbot

In addition to having its own arsenal of digital weapons, the U.S. National Security Agency reportedly hijacks and repurposes third-party malware. The NSA is using its network of servers around the ...
CNET

NSA slapped malware on 50,000+ networks, says report

A new slide culled from the trove of documents leaked by Edward Snowden shows where the NSA placed malware on more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide, according to Dutch media outlet NRC. The NSA ...
Bleeping Computer

TrickBot Gang Created a Custom Post-Exploitation Framework

Instead of relying on premade and well-known toolkits, the threat actors behind the TrickBot trojan decided to develop a private post-exploitation toolkit called PowerTrick to spread malware laterally ...
The Heritage Foundation

Cybersecurity: National Policies and Practices for Understanding Hacks and Reducing Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity is all about ensuring that data and networks remain secure from malicious cyber activity by unauthorized users who seek to either steal data or cause harm to systems. This activity is ...
Aviation Week

Computer attack, exploitation tools attract unexpected customers

Third and fourth-generation cellular telephone technologies, with their wider channel width (3G) and faster data rates (4G), are being adapted and reshaped to fill the needs of military cyber-warriors ...