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Microsoft gains control of domains used by Iranian hackers linked to U.S. fugitive

sudshr47 March 28, 2019

A U.S. court has granted Microsoft the authority to seize domain names in order to take down a phishing campaign run by a notorious group of Iranian hackers.

In a post on Microsoft’s official blog, Customer Security & Trust VP Tom Burt shared details from the now unsealed case it filed in the U.S. District Court for Washington D.C against the hacker group called Phosphorus. The group is also known under the names APT 35, Charming Kitten, and Ajax Security Team.

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit was allowed to take control of 99 domains in order to stop the hackers’ attacks. Domains such as outlook-verify.net, yahoo-verify.net, and verification-live.com were being used in spear-phishing campaigns by the Iranian hackers. Read more…

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Facebook bans thousands of pages, accounts, and groups linked to Russia and Iran for ‘inauthentic behavior’

sudshr47 March 26, 2019

Facebook just took down multiple misinformation campaigns linked to Russia and Iran.

On Tuesday, the social network announced it had removed 2,632 Facebook Pages, Groups and accounts that “engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior” on both Facebook and Instagram.

Most of the accounts removed by Facebook this time around were connected to Russia. But, the company says the majority of the accounts were removed for spam-related activity. In total, the social network removed 1,907 Russian-linked pages, groups and accounts. The “small portion” of accounts that were setup to spread misinformation mostly posted content related to political issues and conflicts in Ukraine. Around 1.7 million accounts were part of the 1,757 Facebook Groups that were removed. The company also took down 86 Pages and 64 Facebook accounts. Read more…

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Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

Messaging platform Telegram claims to have had a surge in signups during a period of downtime for Facebook’s rival messaging services. In a message sent to his Telegram channel, founder Pavel Durov’s just wrote: “I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours.” It’s probably not a coincidence that […]

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The “splinternet” is already here

sudshr47 March 13, 2019

Keith Wright Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Wright is a Villanova School of Business instructor of Accounting and Information Systems, founder of Simplicity On-Demand LLC and former Senior Vice President for Global Sales Operations for SAP. There is no question that the arrival of a fragmented and divided internet is now upon us. The “splinternet,” […]

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ICANN warns of “ongoing and significant” attacks against internet’s DNS infrastructure

sudshr47 February 23, 2019

The internet’s address book keeper has warned of an “ongoing and significant risk” to key parts of the domain name system infrastructure, following months of increased attacks. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, issued the notice late Friday, saying DNS, which converts numerical internet addresses to domain names, has been the victim […]

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‘There’s no way the US can crush us,’ Huawei founder claims

sudshr47 February 19, 2019

Huawei’s founder has come out fighting against the U.S. government after he claimed that “there’s no way the US can crush us.” Ren Zhengfei, who founded the telecom company in 1987, doesn’t often make public statements, but, in a rare interview with the BBC, he defiantly claimed that Huawei’s business is growing stronger amid pressure […]

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DOJ charges former US Air Force officer with spying for Iran

sudshr47 February 13, 2019

Prosecutors have brought charges against a former Air Force officer for allegedly spying for Iran, the Justice Department confirmed Wednesday. Monica Witt, a former Air Force counter-intelligence officer, is accused of defecting to Iran in 2013, after leaving the military in 2008 after more than a decade’s service and later working as a defense contractor. […]

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Justice Department: No evidence of vote hacking during 2018 election

sudshr47 February 5, 2019

There is “no evidence to date” that any foreign government had a material impact on voting machines or infrastructure during the 2018 midterm elections, according to a new classified report sent to the president. That’s the view from the Justice Department and Homeland Security, which were commissioned to report back following an order from President […]

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With cybersecurity threats looming, the government shutdown is putting America at risk

sudshr47 January 24, 2019

Putting political divisions and affiliations aside, the government partially shutting down for the third time over the last year is extremely worrisome, particularly when considering its impact on the nation’s cybersecurity priorities. Unlike the government, our nation’s enemies don’t ‘shut down.’ When our nation’s cyber centers are not actively monitoring and protecting our most valuable assets and critical infrastructure, threats magnify and vulnerabilities become further exposed.

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Slack apologized for its misguided account bans, has reactivated closed accounts

sudshr47 December 23, 2018

The banned Slack accounts are coming back.

On Friday evening, Slack issued a mea culpa for what some were calling “discriminatory” account bans, made in an effort to comply with U.S. economic sanctions.

“We acknowledge that we made several mistakes here,” Slack wrote in a blog post. “Our attempts to comply with these regulations were not well-implemented. In our communications, we did not treat our customers and other users with the respect they deserve.”

We made some mistakes this week when implementing updates to our U.S. trade embargoes and economic sanctions regulations compliance program. We’d like to offer an apology and an update on our course of action. You can read more here: https://t.co/Inscg9DzM1

— Slack (@SlackHQ) December 22, 2018 Read more…

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