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Colonial Pipeline Restarts
NPR - Wed May 12, 2021
The Colonial Pipeline shutdown sent motorists across the Southeast scrambling for gas, even as state and federal officials warn against panic-buying and price gouging. More»

U.S. Declares Emergency in 17 States Over Fuel Pipeline Cyber Attack
The Hacker News - Tue May 11, 2021
The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline's networks has prompted the US Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to issue a regional emergency declaration in 17 states and the District of Columbia (DC). More»

US Pipeline Company Halts Operations After Cyberattack
NBC New York - Sat May 8, 2021
A US energy company says a cyberattack forced it to temporarily halt all operations on a major pipeline that delivers roughly 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. More»

Security firm Malwarebytes was infected by same hackers who hit SolarWinds
ArsTechnica - Thu Jan 21, 2021
Security firm Malwarebytes said it was breached by the same nation-state-sponsored hackers who compromised a dozen or more US government agencies and private companies. More»

A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says
Hacker News - Wed Dec 23, 2020
As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider's Orion software to drop a similar persistent backdoor on target systems. More»

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
Reuters - Thu Dec 17, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by US officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies. More»

Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
Politico - Thu Dec 17, 2020
The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said. More»

US treasury hacked by foreign government group
The Guardian - Sun Dec 13, 2020
Hackers backed by a foreign government have been monitoring internal email traffic at the US treasury department and an agency that decides internet and telecommunications policy, according to people familiar with the matter. More»

Watch Out! Adrozek Malware Hijacking Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Yandex Browsers
Hacker News - Fri Dec 11, 2020
Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off an ongoing campaign impacting popular web browsers that stealthily injects malware-infested ads into search results to earn money via affiliate advertising. More»

FBI warns ransomware assault threatens US healthcare system
Associated Press - Thu Oct 29, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts - Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the US healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking. More»

FBI says Iran and Russia have US voter information
BBC - Wed Oct 21, 2020
US national security officials have reported Iran was responsible for sending threatening emails to Democratic voters. More»

Hackers May Have Gained ‘Almost Total Control’ Of An Election Server In Georgia
MSN - Wed Jan 22, 2020
An election security report has revealed evidence of a possible hacking on a Georgia server that may have compromised the state’s voting machines in both 2016 and 2018. More»

Trump Administration Website Defaced By Hackers Claiming To Be Irnians Vowing "Severe Revenge"
Raw Story - Sun Jan 5, 2020
Predictions that Iran would engage in cyber warfare to retaliate for the United States' assassination of Qassin Suleimani may have already come true. More»

Cisco "Knowingly" Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System To U.S. Government
The Hacker News - Thu Aug 1, 2019
Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8. More»

US "Ramping Up" Cyber Attacks on Russia
CNN - Sat Jun 15, 2019
Washington, DC - The US is escalating cyber attacks on Russia's electric power grid and has placed potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system, The New York Times reported Saturday. More»

Triton Is The World's Most Murderous Malware, And It's Spreading
Technology Review - Wed Mar 6, 2019
The rogue code can disable safety systems designed to prevent catastrophic industrial accidents. More»

Chinese Spying Chips Found Hidden On Servers Used By US Companies
The Hacker News - Wed Oct 3, 2018
A media report today revealed details of a significant supply chain attack which appears to be one of the largest corporate espionage and hardware hacking programs from a nation-state. More»

Microsoft Says Russia Tried to Hack Three 2018 Midterm Election Candidates
The Hacker News - Thu Jul 19, 2018
ASPEN, Colorado - Microsoft said it detected and helped the US government to block Russian hacking attempts against at least three congressional candidates this year, a Microsoft executive revealed speaking at the Aspen Security Forum today. More»

Nearly A Week After Atlanta's Cyberattack, Things Are Nowhere Near Normal
Huffington Post - Wed Mar 28, 2018
A ransomware cyberattack last Thursday forced the city of Atlanta to shut down substantial portions of its city government. More»

Is Facebook Blocking Access to Data for Reporters Seeking to Probe Russian Infiltration in 2016 Election?
AlterNet - Mon Oct 16, 2017
The mystery is deepening over how much Facebook knows about Russian use of the social media platform to inject content and messaging intended to influence voters during the 2016 presidential election. More»

It's 3 Billion! Yes, Every Single Yahoo Account Was Hacked In 2013 Data Breach
Hacker News - Tue Oct 3, 2017
The largest known hack of user data in the history just got tripled in size. More»

Hackers Crack Voting Machines Within Minutes At DEF CON In Vegas
Huffington Post - Sat Jul 29, 2017
We already knew US voting systems had security flaws ? the federal government put that nail in the coffin when it repeatedly confirmed that Russian hackers breached systems in at least 21 states during the election last year. More»

Leaked NSA docs show vote hacking issues raised by the Green Party recount were real
Raw Story - Wed Jun 7, 2017
The Greens were right during 2016's presidential recounts when they pressed states to allow computer security experts to examine their election computing systems for evidence of possible hacking. More»

NSA 'WannaCry' hackers have 'compromised' data that could include foreign nuclear codes
Raw Story - Tue May 16, 2017
Last week's 'WannaCry' ransomware attack rocked networks and became the biggest cyberattack of its kind in history - and now, the group behind it is threatening to release more data as part of a Spotify-like subscription plan. More»

Russian arrested in Spain 'over US election hacking'
BBC - Sun Apr 9, 2017
Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer for alleged involvement in "hacking" the US election, Spanish press reports have said. More»

Feds find evidence Russians hacked Florida election-systems vendor
CNN - Sun Nov 20, 2016
Federal investigators believe Russian hackers were behind cyber attacks on a contractor for Florida's election system that may have exposed the personal data of Florida voters, according to US officials briefed on the probe. More»

Roger Ailes is accused of hacking Media Matters
Daily Mail - Fri Sep 2, 2016
Roger Ailes is accused of hacking the phones of employees and chief reporter of liberal watchdog site which monitors conservative news 'misinformation". More»

IRS hack keeps getting worse, more taxpayers affected
WSB-TV - Sat Feb 27, 2016
The Internal Revenue Service revealed hackers gained access to personal information for more than 700,000 individuals, more than twice as many as previously thought. More»

UK tabloid reporter: Phone hacking a regular tool
Associated Press - Mon Nov 28, 2011
LONDON - A former reporter at Britain's News of the World made a rare, robust defense of phone hacking Tuesday, telling Britain's media ethics inquiry that eavesdropping on voicemails was a "perfectly acceptable tool" to help journalists uncover stories. More»

WikiLeaks site comes under attack
Associated Press - Mon Aug 29, 2011
LONDON - The WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organization raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential US embassy sources. More»

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