Microsoft says a hacker group with ties to Iran has targeted a U.S. presidential campaign, in the latest sign that foreign governments may try to influence the 2020 election
They compromised four accounts, but none were associated with the political campaign or government officials, Microsoft said
Intelligence agencies have warned that foreign governments including Iran may try to influence American politics leading up to next year's election
In July, Burt said Microsoft had flagged nearly 800 cyberattacks suspected of being carried out by nation-states on political organizations.
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Meet Candiru — The Mysterious Mercenaries Hacking Apple And Microsoft PCs For Profit
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Candiru specializes in hacking Windows, but it's also working on tools to crack Apple's MacOS operating system, according to Tal Dilian, who claims to have partnered with Candiru as part of his work with his own surveillance startup, Intellexer Scott-Railton said he was also convinced that Candiru was developing exploits for both Apple and Microsoft technology
Outside of Candiru's apparent relationship with Dilian's spyware enterprises—WiSpear and Intellexa—it has at least one tie to the most controversial of Israel's surveillance providers: NSO Group. That's because two industry sources said the main Candiru financial backer was Founders Group, cofounded by one of the three men who set up NSO, Omri Lavie.
CrowdStrike: aviation industry hacker had high-level access to secrets
The incident is another example of how corporate espionage works in critical industries, including those connected to the defense industrial sector like aviation! Videos for Microsoft Says Iran - Linked Hackers 1:20 Iran - linked hackers tried to compromise 2020 presidential campaign, Microsoft says NBC News!! Nation-state hackers often target these companies to gather as much information and intellectual property as possible, while also establishing several avenues of access within a company meant to serve as wide-scale, longer term network observation points
The CrowdStrike report does not attribute the aviation incident to any person or group. The earlier AFP report cited several suggested China as the culprit for other aviation industry attacks! 1:58 Microsoft announces Iran - linked hackers targeted at least one 2020 campaign MSNBC!! China issued several denials to the Airbus report, with China Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang calling the report irresponsible, unprofessional and having "ulterior motives."
All the Code Connections Between Russia's Hackers, Visualized | WIRED
Two Israeli companies, Check Point and Intezer, today released the results of a broad analysis of code that's been previously attributed to Russian state-sponsored hacking operations! Microsoft Says Iran-Linked Hackers Targeted U.S ...www.npr.org /2019/10/04/767274042 Microsoft says a hacker group with ties to Iran has targeted a U.S. presidential campaign, in the latest sign that foreign governments may try to influence the 2020 election. In a blog post...!! The two firms pulled 2,500 samples from the malware database VirusTotal and used Intezer's automated tools to comb those specimens for code matches or similarities, filtering out false positives like reuse of open source components! Iran-Linked Hackers Tried to Compromise a U.S ...www.msn.com /en-us/news/politics/ ...hackers ...Microsoft's threat-tracking group noticed "significant cyber activity" from a hacking group that "originates from Iran and is linked to the Iranian government," Tom Burt, vice president of customer...!! The result is a kind of constellation chart for every known Russia state hacking group's tool kit, showing clusters that likely represent independent groups. "The information has previously been really scattered! Iran-Linked Hackers Targeted a US Presidential Campaign ...www.nbcwashington.com ...Hackers -Targeted...Microsoft says hackers linked to the Iranian government have targeted a U.S. presidential campaign, as well as government officials, media targets and prominent ex-patriate Iranians .!! Now for the first time we have a one-stop shop for Russian APTs," says Yaniv Balmas, Check Point's head of cyber research, using the acronym for "advanced persistent threat," an industry term for sophisticated state hackers. "You can look at this, and it's all there."
Many things are taking place:
Thousands of UAB patients' info seen by hackers in cyberattack - al.com
The largest medical center in the state has announced thousands of patients may have had personal information exposed to hackers after a cyberattack in August
Approximately 19,557 patients' protected health information was exposed and potentially seen by the hackers, according to UAB. That information varied could have included the patient's name and medical record number, birth date, dates of service, location of service, diagnosis, and treatment information
Investigators discovered the hackers were trying to divert employees' automatic payroll deposits to another account controlled by the suspects, UAB said, and there has been no evidence the attack was targeting private health information. The university said UAB Medicine "prevented all attempts by the hackers to re-direct payroll deposits."
Election 2020: Campaign, government officials targeted by Iran hackers
The targeted attacks come while anxiety about Russian interference in the 2016 election has not receded
Campaign officials with former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen Ian Sams, a spokesman for the campaign of Democratic White House hopeful Kamala Harris, said the campaign has received "no indication that our campaign is the one Microsoft referenced or that we have been targeted by this attack
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock's and former Rep. Joe Sestak's campaigns confirmed they were not targeted. Dennis Willard with Rep. Tim Ryan's presidential campaign said they "have no reason to believe that we were hacked."
WhatsApp bug allows hackers to hijack phones with bizarre gif | The Independent
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The malware, known as a double-free vulnerability, is only triggered if a user opens the specially-created gif in the messaging app
A spokesperson for the messaging app told The Independent that they were unaware of any WhatsApp users being affected by the issue
"The issue was reported and quickly addressed," the spokesperson said. "We have no reason to believe this affected any users, though of course we are always working to provide the latest security features to our users The introduction of self-destructing messages, which are currently only available in the beta version of the app, brings WhatsApp in line with a number of competitors, including Snapchat and Telegram
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