Latest Government news

Microsoft breach led to theft of 60,000 US State Dept emails

Chinese hackers stole tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts after breaching Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange email platform in May.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 28, 2023
- 04:45 PM
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Budworm hackers target telcos and govt orgs with custom malware

A Chinese cyber-espionage hacking group tracked as Budworm has been observed targeting a telecommunication firm in the Middle East and a government entity in Asia using a new variant of its custom 'SysUpdate' backdoor.
- Bill Toulas
- September 28, 2023
- 09:52 AM
- 0
New stealthy and modular Deadglyph malware used in govt attacks

A novel and sophisticated backdoor malware named 'Deadglyph' was seen used in a cyberespionage attack against a government agency in the Middle East.
- Bill Toulas
- September 23, 2023
- 05:00 PM
- 0
Microsoft: North Korean hackers target Russian govt, defense orgs

Microsoft says North Korean hacking groups have breached multiple Russian government and defense targets since the start of the year.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 07, 2023
- 02:24 PM
- 1
German financial agency site disrupted by DDoS attack since Friday

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) announced today that an ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been impacting its website since Friday.
- Bill Toulas
- September 04, 2023
- 01:11 PM
- 2
US govt email servers hacked in Barracuda zero-day attacks

Suspected Chinese hackers disproportionately targeted and breached government and government-linked organizations worldwide in recent attacks targeting a Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) zero-day, with a focus on entities across the Americas.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 29, 2023
- 08:00 AM
- 2
UK gov keeps repeating its voter registration website is NOT a scam

Every year local government bodies or councils across Britain contact residents, asking them to update their voter details on the electoral register if these have changed. To do so, residents are asked to visit HouseholdResponse.com, a domain that looks anything but official and has often confused people, who mistake it for a scam.
- Ax Sharma
- August 13, 2023
- 07:07 AM
- 2
Norway says Ivanti zero-day was used to hack govt IT systems

The Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) has confirmed that attackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti's Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution to breach a software platform used by 12 ministries in the country.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 25, 2023
- 02:42 AM
- 1
Norwegian government IT systems hacked using zero-day flaw

The Norwegian government is warning that its ICT platform used by 12 ministries has suffered a cyberattack after hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software.
- Bill Toulas
- July 24, 2023
- 11:14 AM
- 0
Microsoft: Chinese hackers breached US govt Exchange email accounts

A Chinese hacking group has breached the email accounts of more than two dozen organizations worldwide, including U.S. and Western European government agencies, according to Microsoft.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 12, 2023
- 08:51 AM
- 2
Swiss government warns of ongoing DDoS attacks, data leak

The Swiss government has disclosed that a recent ransomware attack on an IT supplier might have impacted its data, while today, it warns that it is now targeted in DDoS attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- June 12, 2023
- 10:58 AM
- 1
Hackers use fake ‘Windows Update’ guides to target Ukrainian govt

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) says Russian hackers are targeting various government bodies in the country with malicious emails supposedly containing instructions on how to update Windows as a defense against cyber attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- April 30, 2023
- 10:07 AM
- 0
US federal agency hacked using old Telerik bug to steal data

Last year, a U.S. federal agency's Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server was hacked by exploiting a critical .NET deserialization vulnerability in the Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX component.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 15, 2023
- 12:39 PM
- 0
Ukraine says Russian hackers backdoored govt websites in 2021

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) says Russian state hackers have breached multiple government websites this week using backdoors planted as far back as December 2021.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 23, 2023
- 02:50 PM
- 0
Fortinet: Govt networks targeted with now-patched SSL-VPN zero-day

Fortinet says unknown attackers exploited a FortiOS SSL-VPN zero-day vulnerability patched last month in attacks against government organizations and government-related targets.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 12, 2023
- 11:05 AM
- 0
Ukrainian govt networks breached via trojanized Windows 10 installers

Ukrainian government entities were hacked in targeted attacks after their networks were first compromised via trojanized ISO files posing as legitimate Windows 10 installers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 15, 2022
- 12:24 PM
- 6
U.S. govt employees exposed to mobile attacks from outdated Android, iOS

Roughly half of all Android-based mobile phones used by state and local government employees are running outdated versions of the operating system, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities threat actors can leverage to perform cyberattacks.
- Bill Toulas
- November 02, 2022
- 11:11 AM
- 3
Quantum ransomware attack disrupts govt agency in Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic's Instituto Agrario Dominicano has suffered a Quantum ransomware attack that encrypted multiple services and workstations throughout the government agency.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 24, 2022
- 05:39 PM
- 0
Scalper bots out of control in Israel, selling state appointments

Out-of-control scalper bots have created havoc in Israel by registering public service appointments for various government services and then offering to sell them to disgruntled citizens.
- Bill Toulas
- June 23, 2022
- 04:47 PM
- 1
Windows zero-day exploited in US local govt phishing attacks

European governments and US local governments were the targets of a phishing campaign using malicious Rich Text Format (RTF) documents designed to exploit a critical Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 06, 2022
- 12:09 PM
- 0