There’s no word on whether the latest cyberattacks against local government in Texas are using ransomware created by–and stolen from–the National Security Agency. When Baltimore was attacked earlier this year, the NSA’s spyware was reportedly used; NSA’s response; “don’t blame us.” What are national security agencies doing to help protect local governments and agencies? The...
Category: CyberWar
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What Mueller Didn’t Say About ‘Putin’s Prince’ and His Troll Factory
(This article was first published on Just Security) The narrow testimony and contentious questioning of Robert Mueller has raised questions on the political left as well as the right about one of his most significant findings related to Russia’s secret efforts to influence the 2016 election on behalf of President Donald Trump: the social media...
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Shades of Shadow Brokers: Hackers Publish Files of Russian Intelligence Contractor
In April 2017, an anonymous group of hackers calling themselves Shadow Brokers published a collection of cyberwar weapons created by the National Security Agency. Now a group of Russian hackers has published a set of tools commissioned by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), according to the BBC. (The FSB is Russia’s equivalent of the FBI.)...
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Yahoo News: Pentagon Secretly Struck Back Against Iranian Cyberspies
President Trump ordered and then cancelled a bombing raid on Iran for downing a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. Cyber Command launched some kind of cyber attack on an Iranian spy group that monitors shipping in the Middle East. The group, which has ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, has over the past several years...
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Saudis Deploy Israeli Spyware to Target Dissidents
Eli Lake, the pro-Israel Bloomberg columnist, thinks selling Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to Saudi Arabia not a good idea. Lake recently met Palestinian blogger Ayad al-Baghdadi (no relation to the ISIS leader of the same name) who has reportedly been targeted by the Saudi regime. Now living in exile in Norway, al Baghdadi still has to...