Germany’s interior minister is calling for a rules change that would allow for its cyber-forces to proactively attack foreign hackers and servers. Such a capability could be used against those targeting critical infrastructure, said Minister Thomas de Maiziere, in an interview with German outlet ARD and reported by Bloomberg. He called for the drafting of new…
WikiLeaks published hundreds of more files from the Vault 7 series today which, it claims, show how CIA can mask its hacking attacks to make it look like it came from other countries, including Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. Dubbed “Marble,” the part 3 of CIA files contains 676 source code files of a…
The 2014 Yahoo hack disclosed late last year that compromised over 500 million Yahoo user accounts was believed to be carried out by a state-sponsored hacking group. Now, two Russian intelligence officers and two criminal hackers have been charged by the US government in connection with the 2014 Yahoo hack that compromised about 500 million…
Yahoo Mail and Gmail users are being warned to check their security settings after a huge hoard of accounts were reportedly put up for sale online by criminals. Over a million decrypted accounts were being offered online by hackers seeing lucrative Bitcoin hauls. Details such as usernames, email address and passwords stored in plan text…
A new Ransomware as a Service, or RaaS, called Satan has been discovered by security researcher Xylitol. This service allows any wannabe criminal to register an account and create their very own customized version of the Satan Ransomware. Once the ransomware is created, it is then up to the criminal to determine how they will distribute the…