Tag: government
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Alleged India-linked espionage campaign targeted Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
An espionage campaign last year targeted government agencies and critical infrastructure operators in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/india-pakistan-cyber-campaign-apt
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Cyberattack briefly disrupts Russian internet regulator and defense ministry websites
Russia’s internet regulator and defense ministry said their servers were hit by a large DDoS attack that briefly disrupted access to several government websites late last week. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cyberattack-briefly-takes-down-russian-government-websites
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UK reduces cyberattack fix times from two months to eight days
The UK government has launched a new vulnerability monitoring service (VMS) that promises to reduce the time needed to fix critical cyber weaknesses across the public sector. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/02/uk-vulnerability-monitoring-service-and-cyber-profession/
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Prayer App Used by Millions Hacked to Broadcast Defection Messages Amid U.S.-Israel Strikes on Iran
A popular Iranian prayer timing application, BadeSaba Calendar, was hacked to deliver anti-government push notifications to millions of users. This cyber incident occurred early Saturday morning, coinciding with joint U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran. While the kinetic strikes targeted physical locations, this coordinated cyber operation sought to broadcast messages of defection directly to…
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MY TAKE: The Pentagon punished Anthropic for red lines it accepted from OpenAI hours later
KINGSTON, Wash., On Friday afternoon, President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic’s AI technology. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed by designating the company a “supply-chain risk to national security,” a label the government typically reserves for… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/my-take-the-pentagon-punished-anthropic-for-red-lines-it-accepted-from-openai-hours-later/
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Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award
Tags: governmentFrench firm claims DWP failed to identify rival’s bid was ‘abnormally low’ and alleges govt breached procurement rules First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/sopra_steria_sues_ukgov/
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US and Israel Launch Strikes Against Iran
US president Donald Trump said a “major combat operation” against Iran had begun as he called for the country’s government to be overthrown. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/us-iran-strike-donald-trump/
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Trump Bans Anthropic AI in Federal Agencies Amid Growing Security Concerns
The United States government has taken a massive step by banning federal agencies from using Anthropic, a domestic AI company known for its model, Claude. For the first time, a U.S. firm has been classified as a supply chain risk to national security, a label usually given to foreign companies like Huawei. President Donald Trump…
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India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order
India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/india-disrupts-access-to-popular-developer-platform-supabase-with-blocking-order/
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Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous
Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government crackdown against citizen protests nationwide, the regime implemented an internet shutdown that transcends the standard definition of internet censorship. This was not merely blocking social media or foreign…
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UK Vulnerability Monitoring Service Cuts Unresolved Security Flaws by 75%
The UK government says its new Vulnerability Monitoring Service has cut unresolved security flaws by 75% and reduced cyber-attack fix times from nearly two months to just over a week First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-vuln-monitoring-service-cuts/
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Wie strenge digitale Regulierungen das Ausweichverhalten der Nutzer provozieren
In der britischen Kolonialzeit in Indien versuchte die Regierung, eine Kobra-Plage in Delhi durch ein Kopfgeld auf tote Schlangen zu bekämpfen. Die Bevölkerung reagierte pragmatisch, aber anders als erwartet: Sie begann, Kobras zu züchten, um die Prämie zu kassieren. Als das Programm gestoppt wurde, ließen die Züchter die wertlos gewordenen Schlangen frei, was die Plage……
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Wie strenge digitale Regulierungen das Ausweichverhalten der Nutzer provozieren
In der britischen Kolonialzeit in Indien versuchte die Regierung, eine Kobra-Plage in Delhi durch ein Kopfgeld auf tote Schlangen zu bekämpfen. Die Bevölkerung reagierte pragmatisch, aber anders als erwartet: Sie begann, Kobras zu züchten, um die Prämie zu kassieren. Als das Programm gestoppt wurde, ließen die Züchter die wertlos gewordenen Schlangen frei, was die Plage……
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Securing Digital Governance: Building Cyber Resilience for the Public Sector
Tags: cloud, cyber, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, resilience, service, technology, threatStrengthening Digital Trust in an Era of Expanding Threats Government and public sector organizations are undergoing rapid digital transformation. From citizen service portals and digital identity systems to smart infrastructure and cloud-enabled collaboration, technology now underpins nearly every public function. While this modernization improves efficiency and accessibility, it also expands the cyber threat landscape and…
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Google disrupts Сhina-linked cyberespionage campaign spanning dozens of countries
A cyberespionage campaign carried out by a China-linked threat actor affected at least 53 government and telecom organizations across 42 countries, Google said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/china-cyber-espionage-google-disrupt
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Cisco says hackers have been exploiting a critical bug to break into big customer networks since 2023
The U.S. government and its allies said hackers have been exploiting the newly identified bug in Cisco networking gear around the world for years, and urged organizations to patch. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/cisco-says-hackers-have-been-exploiting-a-critical-bug-to-break-into-big-customer-networks-since-2023/
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China-linked hackers breached dozens of telecoms, government agencies
The cyberattacks used a clever technique: malware that hid in plain sight on Google Sheets. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/china-cyberattacks-telecommunications-google-sheets/813082/
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After years of government cyber trouble, UK turns to automated scanning to speed fixes
The British government said it has slashed the time required to fix some of the most serious cyber vulnerabilities across the public sector, pointing to a new automated monitoring service as evidence that Whitehall is finally getting a grip on long-troubled digital defenses. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/united-kingdom-vulnerability-scanning-cyber
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China-linked hackers used Google Sheets to spy on telecoms and governments across 42 countries
Tags: access, api, apt, china, cloud, communications, cyber, cyberespionage, data, defense, endpoint, espionage, google, government, group, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, linux, mandiant, monitoring, network, phone, radius, service, spy, theft, threat, vpnHow Mandiant found it: The campaign came to light during a Mandiant Threat Defense investigation, when analysts flagged unusual activity on a CentOS server. A binary named xapt, designed to masquerade as the apt package manager on Debian-based Linux systems, had already escalated to root and was running shell commands to confirm its access level,…
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Google GTIG disrupted China-linked APT UNC2814 halting attacks on 53 orgs in 42 countries
Google and partners disrupted UNC2814, a suspected China-linked group that hacked 53 organizations across 42 countries. Google, with industry partners, disrupted the infrastructure of UNC2814, a suspected China-linked cyber espionage group that breached at least 53 organizations in 42 countries. The group has been active since at least 2017, and was spotted targeting governments and…
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Government Data Stolen After Hacker Jailbreaks Claude AI to Write Malicious Exploit Code
Tags: ai, breach, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, exploit, government, hacker, malicious, vulnerabilityA hacker successfully manipulated Anthropic’s Claude AI to launch a sophisticated month-long cyberattack against Mexican government agencies. Between December 2025 and January 2026, the attacker utilized >>jailbreaking<< techniques to bypass safety guardrails, forcing the AI to identify vulnerabilities, generate functional exploit code, and exfiltrate sensitive data. The Jailbreak Method Cybersecurity firm Gambit Security revealed that…
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Hydra Saiga Espionage Campaign Targets Critical Utilities Using Telegram C2 for Data Theft
Hydra Saiga is running a long-running espionage campaign that abuses Telegram as command-and-control (C2) to infiltrate critical utilities in Central Asia and exfiltrate sensitive data from government and infrastructure networks. The first known Hydra Saiga activity dates to December 2024, when an executable named “Letter from the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UN addressed…
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Google Disrupts Chinese Hacker Network Behind 53 Telecom, Gov’t Breaches
Tags: breach, china, cyber, espionage, google, government, group, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, mandiant, network, threatGoogle and its partners have disrupted a major Chinese state-linked cyber espionage campaign that breached at least 53 telecommunications and government entities across 42 countries on four continents. The operation, led by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) alongside Mandiant and industry partners, dismantled the infrastructure of a suspected People’s Republic of China (PRC) nexus group…
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Governments issue warning over Cisco zero-day attacks dating back to 2023
The global campaign marks the second series of multiple actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco edge technology since last spring. The similarities don’t end there. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisco-zero-days-cisa-emergency-directive-five-eyes/
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CVE-2026-20127: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller/Manager Zero-Day Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, cisa, cisco, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, government, infrastructure, intelligence, mitigation, network, risk, software, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayExploitation of a maximum severity authentication bypass zero-day vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager has been reported. Immediate patching is recommended to thwart ongoing attacks. Key takeaways: CVE-2026-20127 is an Authentication Bypass Vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager. Patches have been released and no workarounds are currently available. Exploitation in the…
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Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents
UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/google_and_friends_disrupt_unc2814/
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US Sanctions Russian Exploit Broker Over Stolen US Cyber Tools
The US Treasury targets Sergey Zelenyuk and his firm Operation Zero for the illegal trade of stolen government cyber tools following the sentencing of Peter Williams. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/us-sanctions-russian-exploit-broker-us-cyber-tools/