U.S. prosecutors on Thursday announced criminal charges against a North Korean hacker they said was involved in a string of brazen cyber attacks in recent years, including the 2014 invasion on Sony Pictures and a 2016 heist at the central bank of Bangladesh. Prosecutors identified the hacker as Park Jin Hyok, a computer programmer and […]
The United States has blacklisted two dozen Russian “cyber actors” for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and other malicious cyber-attacks. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions targeted the GRU, the Russian military intelligence organization, and 13 Russians already indicted by U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of Moscow’s meddling in the election, […]
(Juneau) In response to an NBC TV story that Russia ‘compromised’ seven states prior to 2016 election, Alaska Division of Elections Director Josie Bahnke stated: “In September 2017, representatives from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officially informed our division that Russian cyber actors made a failed attempt to access the division’s public information […]
In a series of tweets Friday, President-elect Donald Trump promised a report on allegations of Russian hacking within 90 days. Citing Russian claims that they have no information, Trump accuses “sleazebag political operatives,” “political opponents,” and “Intelligence” of making up and releasing reports containing compromising information about him. It now turns out that the phony […]