Categorie: cybersecurity

De websites van CDA, PVV en FVD zijn donderdag een tijdje niet of slechter bereikbaar geweest vanwege ddos-aanvallen. Russische hackers van de groep HackNet hebben de aanval op Telegram opgeëist.

Mandiant assesses with high confidence that the Paris Olympics faces an elevated risk of cyber threat activity, including cyber espionage, disruptive and destructive operations, financially-motivated activity, hacktivism, and information operations. 

France is expecting an uptick in cyber attacks during the sporting contest, particularly from Russia. Cyber security defenders are preparing for the upcoming Paris Olympic Games. The so-called cyberwarriors have studied and analysed potential hackers’ strengths, tactics and weaknesses. Threats could be anyone from teenage show-offs and ransomware gangs to Russian military…

Russia is ramping up malign disinformation campaigns against France, French President Emmanuel Macron, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. While Russia has a decades-long history of targeting the Olympic Games, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) has observed old tactics blending with artificial intelligence…