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• Hacking campaign on nuclear, defense sectors shares Lazarus Group tools, report says (cyberscoop.com)
  “Operation Sharpshooter” has numerous technical links to the group of suspected North Korean government hackers, according to McAfee resear…
• Supermicro concludes 'Big Hack' investigation, says no tampering (cyberscoop.com)
  Supermicro said an internal review of its production and testing process found no evidence of malicious hardware being implanted onto its m…
• Smart botnets are copying human behavior, from DDoS to ad fraud (cyberscoop.com)
  Innovative scammers are developing new ways to falsify web traffic, directing unwitting users’ to ads that may or may not actually exist.
• Middle East group goes on hacking spree against telecoms, embassies and more (cyberscoop.com)
  Researchers found the suspected Iranian group on the same embassy network as Fancy Bear.
• China's cyber-espionage against U.S. is 'more audacious,' NSA official says amid Huawei flap (cyberscoop.com)
  “We do have concerns,” Rob Joyce says. “Those are based on real, grounded examples. They’re not things we’re going to carry out into the pu…
• As China tensions mount, U.S. officials outline efforts to combat economic espionage (cyberscoop.com)
  "The [Chinese] playbook is simple: rob, replicate, and replace,” a top Justice Department official alleged.
• National Infrastructure Advisory Council warns against cyberthreats on top of natural disasters (cyberscoop.com)
  While the U.S. power grid has not experienced a natural disaster at the same time as a major cyberattack, both threats appear to be becomin…
• Suspected North Korean hackers target universities using Chrome extension (cyberscoop.com)
  Pyongyang's hackers have expanded their targeted base, according to ASERT, the threat intelligence group of Netscout’s Arbor Networks.
• Australia passes world's first law authorizing encryption backdoors (cyberscoop.com)
  Privacy advocates, technologists and businesses including Apple have criticized the Australian bill and similar proposals elsewhere, saying…
• With new director, Tor seeks new funding sources and international growth (cyberscoop.com)
  Roughly 2 million people worldwide use the Tor browser everyday. New leadership wants to turn those users into its donor base.
• Google unveils security suite, promising enhanced cloud visibility (cyberscoop.com)
  The goal is to organize diverse security information into a single web portal where enterprise security administrators can view everything…
• Kaspersky: Physical devices used to steal 'tens of millions' from Eastern Europe banks (cyberscoop.com)
  Researchers dubbed the scheme "DarkVishnya" and said attackers intruded in-person to plant malicious devices on banks' networks to steal mo…
• Sen. Warner calls for a ‘whole-of-society’ U.S. cyber doctrine (cyberscoop.com)
  The Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat urged the U.S. to heed the lessons of Russia's intervention in the 2016 election.
• New flaw prompts Google to shut down Google+ for consumers within 90 days (cyberscoop.com)
  The new farewell date for the consumer version of Google+ will come four months early after Google discovered a privacy bug affecting 52.5…
• Hoarding threat information 'not a competitive advantage,' DHS official tells corporate leaders (cyberscoop.com)
  Bradford Willke cited the December 2015 blackout in Ukraine, caused by hackers linked with Russia, as a cautionary tale in information-hoar…
• Symantec markets USB security to industrial facilities amid shift to enterprise sales (cyberscoop.com)
  In an era when many workers admit they wouldn't hesitate to stick a stray USB stick into their work computer, the Industrial Control System…
• First major Kubernetes flaw enables hackers to access backend servers undetected (cyberscoop.com)
  The bug in the popular open-source tool could allow outsiders to establish a connection through Kubernetes’ trusted application program.
• ˜London Blue’ cybercriminals turn to industrial-scale email scam (cyberscoop.com)
  Criminals tied to "London Blue" have used data brokers to compile a 50,000-person target list for their business email compromise scam.
• Mastercard and Microsoft say they're developing a universal identity management solution (cyberscoop.com)
  Mastercard and Microsoft pose that such a solution can help reduce payment fraud and identity theft. Product specifics will be unveiled in…
• Quora says hackers took data on 100 million users (cyberscoop.com)
  Popular question-and-answer site Quora has discovered that hackers broke into its system and took data on 100 million users.
• Citrix security boss warns that cryptojackers are exploiting cloud ignorance (cyberscoop.com)
  Cloud providers charge for computing power and data removed. When malicious cryptojackers take control of an employee’s account, then use t…
• DOJ arrests three leaders of FIN7 hacking gang (cyberscoop.com)
  hree Ukrainians accused of hacking vast quantities of financial data from U.S. businesses have been indicted, the Department of Justice ann…
• Flagship election security bill gets a companion in the House (cyberscoop.com)
  The Secure Elections Act would let states to replace outdated machines, among other forms of assistance from the federal government.
• U.S. charges North Korean hacker over Sony, WannaCry incidents (cyberscoop.com)
  Park Jin Hyok, a North Korean computer programmer, has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer-…
• House panel rips CVE contracting and oversight policies (cyberscoop.com)
  The industry-wide program for documenting hardware and software vulnerabilities suffers from fluctuating funding and insufficient oversight…
• U.S. extradites Russian accused of hacking JPMorgan Chase- CyberScoop (cyberscoop.com)
  Accused Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin has been extradited from Georgia for his alleged role in a hacking campaign against American financial…
• DEF CON report finds decade-old flaw in widely used ballot-counting machine (cyberscoop.com)
  A voting tabulator used to count ballots in more than half the states has a decade-old flaw that leaves it vulnerable to hacking, according…
• Russian hacker pleads guilty for role in massive botnet schemes (cyberscoop.com)
  Peter Levashov's plan was to harvest personal information, disseminate spam and distribute malware used to facilitate multiple scams, prose…
• Senators want answers on State Department glaring cybersecurity gaps (cyberscoop.com)
  The bipartisan group of senators are particularly focused on the department's lack of multi-factor authentication, and have asked Mike Pomp…
• Lawmakers ask intelligence community for 'deepfakes' assessment (cyberscoop.com)
  Rep. Adam Schiff and others have asked the intelligence community to assess how foreign governments could use the technology — video, audio…
• Judge upholds paperless voting in Georgia, but pressures for change (cyberscoop.com)
  Judge Amy Totenberg suggested that state election officials had "their heads in the sand" on election security.
• Wyden: Tech company has told multiple senators of foreign hacking attempts (cyberscoop.com)
  A major tech company has informed “a number of senators and Senate staff members” that hackers have targeted their personal email accounts,…
• Accused 'Vault 7' leaker to face new charges (cyberscoop.com)
  The Department of Justice is looking to issue new charges against Joshua Schulte, alleged to have stolen data from the CIA and given it to…
• Yahoo to pay $85m to settle data breach lawsuit (cyberscoop.com)
  It's one of the largest data breach settlements in U.S. history, and it's the latest in a series of legal consequences related to security…
• U.S. indicts two over SamSam ransomware attacks that hit Atlanta, other cities (cyberscoop.com)
  The Department of Justice unsealed indictments Tuesday against two men for conducting ransomware attacks against more than 200 organization…
• Ex-CIA employee charged in 'Vault 7' leaks (cyberscoop.com)
  The Vault 7 leaks became public in March 2017 and gave an unprecedented look at the CIA's hacking capabilities.
• Eight men arrested in alleged $15 million hacking scheme (cyberscoop.com)
  Eight men across the U.S. and Ghana have been arrested and charged with a $15 million hacking and fraud scheme.
• Senate bill hopes to sort out supply-chain cybersecurity risks, prevent next Kaspersky drama (cyberscoop.com)
  A new bipartisan Senate bill tries to get to the bottom of supply chain risk by setting up a federal acquisition council to get national-se…
• Lawmakers urge Google to end partnership with China's Huawei (cyberscoop.com)
  A bipartisan group urged Google to reconsider their partnership with Chinese telecom firm Huawei due to national security concerns.
• Former NSA contractor Reality Winner accepts guilty plea for leaking classified report (cyberscoop.com)
  For one count of espionage, Winner faces 63 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
• Former Equifax employee charged with insider trading over 2017 data breach (cyberscoop.com)
  The SEC accused a former Equifax employee of trading on confidential information in advance of the company's 2017 data breach that impacted…
• DNC pushes employees, campaigns to embrace email security habits ahead of midterms (cyberscoop.com)
  Chief Technology Officer Raffi Krikorian and his team have been using a phishing simulation platform named Wombat to challenge their collea…
• Lawmakers demand answers in wake of strange OPM identity fraud lawsuit (cyberscoop.com)
  A pair of letters sent this week by Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Gerry Connolly to the heads of DOJ and OPM issues a number of questions about…
• Senators want Commerce to help U.S. firms ditch ZTE (cyberscoop.com)
  A bipartisan trio of senators have asked the Commerce Department to clarify that U.S. companies are welcome to remove products from their n…
• DOJ regrets the error on OPM-linked fraud case (cyberscoop.com)
  DOJ as apologized for confusion over its announcement last month that a fraudster used information stolen in the infamous 2015 OPM data bre…
• Congress presses Tim Cook and Larry Page for answers on security and privacy (cyberscoop.com)
  In response to reports that Google collected location data on Android even when location services were turned off, the committee cited Andr…
• South Carolina voters sue state over paperless voting machines (cyberscoop.com)
  South Carolina voters are suing their state over its use of paperless voting machines amid worries that they are susceptible to hacking wit…
• LuminosityLink malware author pleads guilty (cyberscoop.com)
  Malware creator Colton Grubs admitted to prosecutors that he knew customers used the software to illegally hack into victims' machines.
• Justice Department charges 12 Russian intel officers for hacking DNC (cyberscoop.com)
  The Department of Justice has charged 12 Russian military intelligence officers for hacking into the Democratic National Committee.
• Senators call for DOJ investigation of Fancy Bear’s ‘CyberCaliphate’ ruse (cyberscoop.com)
  A bipartisan pair of senators is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate the alleged harassment of U.S. military families by Ru…