Cyber war news

The world is used to hearing about attacks by formidable Russian hackers, usually endorsed by the Kremlin – especially since its invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. The United States can retaliate, and massively so, experts say. But will they?

With the midterms looming, an information operations (IO) campaign allegedly backed by the Asian superpower is trying to exploit political disenchantment in the US to derail the democratic process, says Mandiant.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the company did not receive funding from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to support Starlink’s operation in Ukraine.

Government installations in Bulgaria have been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the weekend, according to a Twitter statement made by its chief public prosecutor, who pointed at Russia as the possible culprit.

Politically motivated cybercriminals with unsophisticated tools can swiftly adopt far more destructive weapons.

Rosfinmonitoring, a Russian financial monitoring agency, has added Meta to its list of "terrorist and extremist" organizations.

Yuri Zaskoka, the head of the cybercrime division of Ukraine's police force, died in what’s believed to be Russia’s “biggest air strikes since start of Ukraine war,” according to police chief Igor Klimenko.

Pro-Russian hackers supposedly crashed Los Angeles International, Chicago’s O’Hare, and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International airport websites in a pro-Russian hacker attack.

The internet is down across Ukraine amid missile strikes in what appears to be retaliation for Saturday’s attack on the Crimea bridge.

Since the announcement of partial mobilization in Russia, male citizens have been looking for their way out of duty on illegal markets.

Hackers claim to have penetrated Gonets, a Russian LEO satellite communications network, deleting a database that is crucial to its functioning.

DNS acknowledged the breach after hackers shared the details of the company’s customers and employees on a popular hacker forum.

Three hacking groups involved in the cyber war with Ukraine – XakNet Team, Infoccentr, and CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn – are likely tied to Russia’s GRU, according to Mandiant.

Russians impersonated well-known media outlets, such as the Guardian and Spiegel, to spread war propaganda. The content was amplified by Russian embassies in Europe and Asia.

In a sign of ever-heightening espionage tensions between the US and China, a federal court in Chicago has found another Chinese national guilty of spying.

Though it has apparently refrained from engaging in any high-profile disruptive attacks on rival government installations, China appears to be quietly beefing up its cyber capabilities as global tensions rise.

Ukraine said the Kremlin was planning cyberattacks against its energy sector to slow down the offensive operations of the Ukrainian military.

The Russian antivirus provider has been named by five EU nations as warranting a ban throughout the region for its ambiguous stance on the invasion of Ukraine, although as yet no evidence has emerged that it is spying for the Kremlin.

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) neutralized a hacker group in Lviv that acted in support of the Kremlin. Suspects are accused of selling personal data belonging to Ukrainians and European Union (EU) citizens to Russia.

The hacktivist collective has pledged to fight Iran's "dictatorial rule and murderous cops" after a woman died in police custody for not wearing a headscarf properly.