PETALING JAYA: Intelligence agencies recruit foreigners to spy for them to avoid connections between the recruiters’ country and the foreign asset, says a security analyst.
(Reuters) - Speaking at a private dinner for tech security executives at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco in late February, America's cyber defense chief boasted how well his organizations protect the country from spies.
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are targets of choice for online criminals, who often exploit weaknesses in major trading platforms or individual users' digital "wallets" to make major scores.
WASHINGTON DC: At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.
The French actress worked with Depardieu on the set of 'Police' in 1985, and says the film icon's attitude was 'unbearable'.
US government agencies were ordered to scour their networks for malware and disconnect potentially compromised servers after authorities learned that the Treasury and Commerce departments were hacked in a monthslong global cyberespionage campaign discovered when a prominent cybersecurity firm learned it had been breached.
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hacking group named Scattered Spider brought down the systems of the $14 billion gaming giant MGM Resorts International this week, two sources familiar with the matter said, as U.S. law enforcement officials started a probe into the breach.
PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian arrested in Norway for alleged espionage was recruited by a foreigner while studying in Australia.
Senior officials from about two dozen of the world's major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.
The CIA shares tips on how to have a safe holiday, as advised by some of their agents.
The elite Russian state hackers behind last year’s massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign hardly eased up this year, managing plenty of infiltrations of US and allied government agencies and foreign policy think tanks with consummate craft and stealth, a leading cybersecurity firm reported on Dec 6.
The hackers who carried out the massive SolarWinds intrusion were in the software company’s system as early as January 2019, months earlier than previously known, the company’s top official said on May 19.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -The suspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into U.S. federal agencies emerged with information about counter-intelligence investigations, policy on sanctioning Russian individuals and the country’s response to COVID-19, people involved in the investigation told Reuters.
A devastating cyberattack on US government agencies has also hit targets worldwide, with the list of victims still growing, according to researchers, heightening fears over computer security and espionage.
US government agencies and private companies rushed Monday to secure their computer networks following the disclosure of a sophisticated and long-running cyber-espionage intrusion that experts said almost certainly was carried out by a foreign state.
As an author, former CIA man Jason Matthews was an immediate, late-career success
In punishing Russian hacks and election meddling, the Biden administration on Thursday revealed new details about Russian intelligence’s vast disinformation and cyber-operations, including the names of companies that allegedly help facilitate cyber-attacks and websites accused of spreading false claims to damage the US.
Australia has expressed concern over "malicious" hacking attacks across the world by cyber criminals and state-based actors targeting hospitals, medical services and facilities.
SINGAPORE/LOS ANGELES, Oct 11 (Reuters): Singapore had a tough time with the coronavirus outbreak, which means the entertainment industry was hit hard.
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (The Straits Times/ANN): Dickson Yeo, the Singaporean man who pleaded guilty to spying for China in the United States, is due to be sentenced in a US federal court on Friday (Oct 9).