The U.S. Treasury revealed in a letter to lawmakers on Monday that it suffered a cyberattack in December, which has been attributed to Chinese government-linked hackers. According to the letter, which TechCrunch reviewed, the hackers remotely accessed certain employee workstations and unclassified documents in what the Treasury described as a “major cybersecurity incident.” The breach […]
The U.K. is launching a new AI security research lab aimed at combating threats from Russia and other adversarial states in what it refers to as the “new AI arms race.” This initiative comes in response to the increasing use of AI in nation-state cyberattacks. The Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) will receive an
A venture capitalist, a recruiter from a large company, and a newly hired remote IT worker may seem unrelated, but they all have something in common: they’ve been discovered as imposters working for the North Korean regime, according to security researchers. At Cyberwarcon, a conference focused on cyber threats, experts warned of North Korean hackers
A Russian programmer, Kirill Parubets, claims the Federal Security Service (FSB) installed spyware on his Android phone after detaining him in Moscow earlier this year. Security experts confirmed spyware had been installed, likely when the authorities accessed his phone using the passcode they forced him to provide. Parubets, a systems analyst with Ukrainian heritage, identifies
U.S. government agencies frequently engage in legally sanctioned hacking of devices such as phones and emails, for purposes like wiretapping suspects or monitoring for security threats. However, there’s growing interest in targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as Wi-Fi-enabled security cameras. Toka, an Israeli startup supported by Andreessen Horowitz, focuses on this niche. The
