U.S. State Department

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2023
Chinese threat actors stole around 60,000 emails from US State Department in Microsoft breach

China-linked threat actors stole around 60,000 emails from U.S. State Department after breaching Microsoft’s Exchange email platform in May. China-linked hackers who breached Microsoft’s email platform in May have stolen tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters this week. During a briefing by U.S. State Department IT officials, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2022
U.S. increased rewards for info on North Korea-linked threat actors to $10 million

The U.S. State Department increased rewards for information on any North Korea-linked threat actors to $10 million. In April 2020, the U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a joint advisory that is warning organizations worldwide about the ‘significant cyber threat’ posed by the North Korean nation-state actors […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2021
U.S. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack

The U.S. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack, the Department of Defense Cyber Command might have suffered a serious breach. The U.S. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack, the Department of Defense Cyber Command is notifying impacted individuals, White House Correspondent and fill-in anchor at Fox News Jacqui Heinrich […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2015
A part of an unclassified Pentagon email network taken down over suspicious activity

Part of a Pentagon email network taken down over suspicious activity, the US authorities are investigating on the alleged intrusion. New problems for the White House emerges from the cyberspace, a portion of the Department of Defence’s email network has been taken down over suspicious activity. According to Pentagon spokeswoman, the unclassified email network used by […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2015
APT28 Russian hackers exploited two zero-day flaws in the wild

FireEye recently detected a new highly targeted attack run by APT28 exploiting two zero-day flaws to compromise an “international government entity”. Security experts at FireEye have recently detected a new cyber espionage campaign, dubbed “Operation RussianDoll,” operated by the Russian APT28 group. This time the hackers run highly targeted attack by exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to target an “international […]