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Biden administration officials have completed an intelligence review of alleged Russian misdeeds such as election interference and the SolarWinds hack, setting the stage for the U.S to announce retaliatory actions soon, according to three people familiar with the matter. Possible moves could involve sanctions and the expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in the U.S. under diplomatic cover, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations. Senior officials were expected to meet Wednesday to discuss what steps to take. One person familiar with the deliberations said the…

It’s just the fourth month of the year and we have already had a horde of cyber espionage campaigns. Now, another new one has been revealed by researchers. What’s going on? Kaspersky spotted a cyberespionage campaign targeted against government and military organizations in Vietnam via DLL side-loading. The campaign has been attributed to a threat actor related to Cycldek – a Chinese-speaking threat actor. Although this actor shares similarities with Cycldek, it is highly sophisticated as compared to the latter. It is hypothesized that the operators of Cycldek have joined…

While organizations in the manufacturing sector are moving toward the adoption of automation and IoT technologies, attackers are regularly aiming at them via the vastly exposed attack surface. Recently, several hacking groups have been observed carrying out targeted attacks on specific organizations, as well as opportunistic attacks targeting large masses. Targeted cyberattacks A large number of organizations in the manufacturing sector have specifically been targeted by cyberattackers in the past few weeks. Among these attacks, ransomware attacks turn out to be the most prominent threat. French electronics manufacturing services company…

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. The information appears to be several years old but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites and the limits to how secure that information is. The availability of the data set was first reported by Business Insider. According to that publication, it contains information from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates and email addresses. Facebook has been…