Overturning of EU-US Privacy Shield Could Affect US-UK Five Eyes’ Relationship
Executive Summary: According to various articles from the Guardian newsgroups, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement. Complaints were brought to the ECJ ...
Australia Hit by Cyber Attack from ‘A State-based Actor, with very Significant Capabilities’
Executive Summary: According to multiple sources, Australia has been the target of increasingly frequent, and sophisticated, state-based cyber attacks over many months. The Prime Minister of ...
Honda’s Global Operations Disrupted by Ransomware Attack
Executive Summary: According to multiple sources, Honda reported in early June that their global network was hit by an Ekans ransomware attack. While Honda also reported that no sensitive data was ...
US Accuses China of COVID-19 Centric Cyberattacks
Executive Summary: According to multiple OSINT sources, the United States is moving to accuse China of conducting directed cyberattacks against them, in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. ...
2016 DNC Russian Hackers Allegedly Also Behind Recent 2019 Burisma Attack
Executive Statement: According to multiple open sources, the 2019 cyberattack on the Ukraine-based energy firm, Burisma, is being attributed to the same Russian hacking group responsible for the ...
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Data Breach
Executive Statement: According to multiple open sources, the DISA has issued letters to potential victims of a summer 2019 data breach. The letter states that due to the potential data breach of ...
Four People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Members Charged Over 2017 Equifax Breach
Executive Statement: According to both The Guardian and the Wired newsgroups, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has officially indicted four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), by ...
Huawei Concerns over 5G Infrastructure in the UK
Executive Statement: According to reports from The Guardian newsgroup, a lot of focus in the last month-and-a-half revolve around the United Kingdom’s decision to allow Chinese-based company, ...
China’s Mass-Surveillance Goes Global: SMS Invasion
Overview:State-sponsored Chinese hacking group Lotus Blossom (AKA APT41) has infiltrated 4 telecom companies operating in undisclosed locations. The purpose of this infiltration was to expand their ...
The Weakest Link: DoD Data Exposed by Third-party
Overview: Reservations management company AutoClerk found itself in hot water last week when it was discovered that one of its databases was exposed online. The database, which is 179 GB in size ...