The Hacker News - Cybersecurity News and Analysis: cyber espionage

Phishing is still one of the widely used strategies by cybercriminals and espionage groups to gain an initial foothold on the targeted sy...

Though Russia still has an undiversified and stagnant economy, it was one of the early countries in the world to realize the value of rem...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new computer virus associated with the Stealth Falcon state-sponsored cyber espionage group t...

One of the most powerful, infamous, and advanced piece of government-grade commercial surveillance spyware dubbed FinSpy —also known as F...

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about an ongoing Android malware campaign that has been active since 2016 and was first publicly re...

Cybersecurity researchers yesterday unveiled the existence of a highly sophisticated spyware framework that has been in operation for at ...

A former National Security Agency contractor—who stole an enormous amount of sensitive information from the agency and then stored it at ...

An Iran-linked cyber-espionage group that has been found targeting critical infrastructure , energy and military sectors in Saudi Arabia and...

Security researchers have finally, with "high confidence," linked a previously discovered global cyber espionage campaign target...

The United States Department of Justice has announced espionage charges against a former US Air Force intelligence officer with the highe...

After protecting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for almost six years, Ecuador is now planning to withdraw its political asylum, probabl...

Security researchers from Check Point Threat Intelligence Team have discovered the comeback of an APT (advanced persistent threat) survei...

Digitally signed malware has become much more common in recent years to mask malicious intentions. Security researchers have discover...

Security researchers have uncovered a new highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign, which is believed to be associated with a hacking gr...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country ...

Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a sophisticated APT hacking group that has been operating since at least 2012 without b...

Security researchers have discovered a custom-built piece of malware that's wreaking havoc in Asia for past several months and is cap...

Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab has taken the United States government to a U.S. federal court for its decision to ban the...

Karim Baratov , a 22-year-old Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen, has pleaded guilty to hacking charges over his involvement in massive 201...