Russia-Backed Hackers Behind Most Nation-State Cyber Attacks: Microsoft October 2, 2020 By Alyza Sebenius Russia-based hackers are responsible for the majority of nation-state attacks on Microsoft customers, according to new data from company. Microsoft...
U.S. Prosecutors Charge 7 in Alleged Multi-Target Chinese Hacking Scheme September 17, 2020 The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it has charged five Chinese residents and two Malaysian businessmen in a wide-ranging...
China-Backed Hackers ‘Targeted’ COVID-19 Vaccine Firm Moderna, Reuters Reports July 31, 2020 By Christopher Bing and Marisa Taylor Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc., a U.S.-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, this year in a bid to...
Chinese Hacking Group Resumes Global Attacks on Companies, Agencies December 19, 2019 By Ryan Gallagher A Chinese government-linked hacking group that was thought to be dormant has been quietly targeting companies and government agencies for...
Telecoms Have Lost Vast Data to Chinese Hackers Over 7 Years, Security Firm Says June 26, 2019 By Ari Rabinovitch and Tova Cohen Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge amounts of data in...
German Firms Warned About Rising Threat from Chinese Hackers: Report December 19, 2018 Germany’s Office for Information Security (BSI) has issued warnings to several German firms named by the United States as possible...
Obama Seeks ‘Nimble, Aggressive, Well-Resourced’ Cyber Defense June 9, 2015 By Jeff Mason and Mark Hosenball President Barack Obama vowed on Monday that the United States would aggressively bolster its cyber defenses, as U.S. officials said...
Should U.S. Retaliate for Cyber Attacks? June 9, 2015 By David Lerman The Obama administration should retaliate for a cyber-attack on federal employee records that was the worst breach the U.S. government...
Tennessee-Based Community Health Reports 4.5M Records Hacked August 19, 2014 By Cynthia Koons and Michael Riley Chinese hackers stole social security numbers, names and addresses from 4.5 million patients of Community Health Systems Inc., the second-biggest...
Chinese Hacking Raises Cyber Attack Disclosure Issue for Companies May 21, 2014 By Chris Strohm, Dave Michaels and Sonja Elmquist Three U.S. public companies identified as Chinese hacking victims didn’t report the theft of trade secrets and other data to...