thehackernews.com - Spanish Police has arrested the leader of
Russian hacking group behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks, who stole over a billion euros from banks worldwide.
Two independent cybersecurity firms had already reported separately that
the Russian hacking group known variously as Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm and APT 28 (or Advanced Persistent Threat 28), appeared to be targeting the Macron campaign.
He said Facebook was tracking known
Russian hacking groups in real time but took much longer to recognize the inflammatory posts of the Internet Research Agency, a private company with Kremlin ties.
Not exact matches
Podesta confirmed that the FBI is investigating the
hack of his private email account as part of the ongoing probe in other Democratic Party
hackings by
groups with
Russian ties.
The US could retaliate against Russia in the form of a military offensive, shutting down specific portions of its cyber capabilities or stealing and publishing
hacking tools used by
Russian intelligence — much like the Russia - linked
group the Shadow Brokers did with US cyberweapons in 2016.
A new report from NBC News said Mueller was scrutinizing what Trump knew about the
Russian - backed campaign to
hack into the Democratic National Committee in the summer of 2016, and whether Trump had any role in the radical pro-transparency
group WikiLeaks» subsequent dissemination of the stolen emails.
This exploit was one of many uncovered and dumped for public use last month by the Shadow Brokers
hacking group, widely believed to be connected to the
Russian government.
The data set was reportedly
hacked last year by a
Russian group and later obtained by Peace, who posted it for sale on a forum for a little less than 1 Bitcoin, or roughly $ 400.
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Russians, Reuters More Americans want «independent» investigation of Trump: Reuters / Ipsos poll, Reuters International Researchers say global cyber attack similar to North Korean
hacks, Reuters Ukraine imposes sanctions on
Russian web firms, citing cyber threat, Reuters
APT28 is one of the two
Russian groups that
hacked into the Democratic National Committee's email servers during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign.