Tag: ransomware

11 U.S. State Department employees IPhone’s Hacked by Pegasus

Tom Patriot

Innovation & Research Symposium Cisco and Ecole Polytechnique 9-10 April 2018 Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity / © École polytechnique – J.Barande / Flickr / April 9, 2018  / CC BY-SA 2.0 The hacking continues as Apple notifies 11 U.S. State Department employees located in Uganda that their phones were hacked using a tool that was developed by NSO Group – an Israeli tech company that has been blacklisted by the Biden administration.  The mobile hacking tool is also known as Pegasus and is NSO Group’s first successful attack on American…

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Will the Russian Hackers Ever Stop?

Tom Patriot

It’s been about 5 months since Biden met with Putin and discussed everything from country relations to prospective plans for future cooperation between both countries. One of the main issues being the severe ransomware attacks against the US by Russian housed groups has not shown any signs of improvement.  Lawmakers are growing anxious over what seems like no results from that conversation, and are worried about Biden’s abilities to properly confront Russian.  After the Geneva meeting in July, the White House issued a statement saying that Biden “spoke with President…

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