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Boeing ‘Sensitive Data’ Reportedly Stolen by Ransomware Group Linked to Russia

October 28, 2023/in Internet Security

A hacking group called LockBit claimed Friday that it had infiltrated Boeing Co. and stolen sensitive information from the aerospace giant.

The group, which has been linked to Russia, set a Nov. 2 deadline for Boeing to contact it, otherwise threatening to publish “all available data,” Cybernews reported, citing a LockBit “dark leak” website.

“We are assessing this claim,” a Boeing spokesman said in an email to The Messenger.

Beyond its commercial aircraft business, Boeing is a major defense contractor, selling everything from weapons to satellites to fighter jets to the U.S. and allied governments. The Pentagon referred questions on the matter to Boeing.

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In Other News: LastPass Vault Hacking, Russia Targets Ukraine Energy Facility, NXP Breach

September 8, 2023/in Computer Security

SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar.

We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape.

Each week, we will curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from the latest vulnerability discoveries and emerging attack techniques to significant policy changes and industry reports.

Here are this week’s stories:

SentinelOne ends Wiz collaboration following acquisition rumors

SentinelOne has ended its collaboration with cloud security firm Wiz following reports of a potential merger valued at $5-6 billion. SentinelOne shut down the rumors that it’s being acquired by Wiz a few days later, when it announced its decision to unilaterally terminate its six-month-old partnership with Wiz “as a result of their continued lack of execution against their commitments”.

Hackers may be breaking into LastPass vaults compromised in data breach

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Some experts believe that threat actors may be breaking into the LastPass vaults compromised in a data breach last year, security blogger Brian Krebs reported. An investigation showed that many security-conscious individuals who had a total of $35 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen from them had used LastPass to store their private key.

Semiconductor company NXP discloses data breach

Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer NPX has disclosed a data breach affecting the email addresses of users who had registered an account on npx.com, but had not used it for at least 18 months. No other information was exposed, NPX said.

Data breach at golf equipment maker Callaway impacts one million people

Callaway, a company that makes clubs, balls and other golf equipment, has disclosed a data breach affecting more than one million people. The firm said it discovered unauthorized access to information such as name, email address, phone number, order history, password, and security question answer.

New report details how China is weaponizing…

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Russia Seeds New Surveillance Tech to Squash Ukraine War Dissent

July 3, 2023/in Internet Security

As the war in Ukraine unfolded last year, Russia’s best digital spies turned to new tools to fight an enemy on another front: those inside its own borders who opposed the war.

To aid an internal crackdown, Russian authorities had amassed an arsenal of technologies to track the online lives of citizens. After it invaded Ukraine, its demand grew for more surveillance tools. That helped stoke a cottage industry of tech contractors, which built products that have become a powerful — and novel — means of digital surveillance.

The technologies have given the police and Russia’s Federal Security Service, better known as the F.S.B., access to a buffet of snooping capabilities focused on the day-to-day use of phones and websites. The tools offer ways to track certain kinds of activity on encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal, monitor the locations of phones, identify anonymous social media users and break into people’s accounts, according to documents from Russian surveillance providers obtained by The New York Times, as well as security experts, digital activists and a person involved with the country’s digital surveillance operations.

President Vladimir V. Putin is leaning more on technology to wield political power as Russia faces military setbacks in Ukraine, bruising economic sanctions and leadership challenges after an uprising led by Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the commander of the Wagner paramilitary group. In doing so, Russia — which once lagged authoritarian regimes like China and Iran in using modern technology to exert control — is quickly catching up.

“It’s made people very paranoid, because if you communicate with anyone in Russia, you can’t be sure whether it’s secure or not. They are monitoring traffic very actively,” said Alena Popova, a Russian opposition political figure and digital rights activist. “It used to be only for activists. Now they have expanded it to anyone who disagrees with the war.”

The effort has fed the coffers of a constellation of relatively unknown Russian technology firms. Many are owned by Citadel Group, a business once partially controlled by Alisher Usmanov, who was a target of European Union sanctions as one of Mr. Putin’s…

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Ukraine Russia war updates: Counteroffensive may be underway

June 6, 2023/in Internet Security

The Ukrainian army claimed to be gaining ground Monday along a wide front in the Bakhmut area, the “epicenter” of hostilities, amid Russian claims that the long-awaited Ukraine counteroffensive may be underway.

“We are successful, we occupy the dominant heights” surrounding Bakhmut, Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar said on Telegram. “The enemy is on the defensive. He wants to hold his position.”

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Monday that Ukraine forces had begun a “large-scale offensive on five sectors of the front in the southern Donetsk area” − where Bakhmut is located − and said its troops fended off at least one attack.

Ukraine officials have said they won’t formally announce the start of the counteroffensive, but acknowledged their forces were indeed increasing offensive operations and suggested some of the Russian proclamations were misinformation.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner mercenaries were credited with seizing Bakhmut after months of battle, had harsh words for Russian regular troops assigned to hold the area. He said a nearby settlement had fallen and troops were abandoning their posts.

Pro-Russia military blogger Semen Pegov, known as WarGonzo, wrote that “news from the frontline … is getting more alarming every hour.” Pegov added that “the Armed Forces of Ukraine, unlike yesterday, are operating much more harmoniously and organized.”

Alexander Khodakovsky, deputy head of the Russian national guard in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, warned that “the enemy managed to put us in a difficult position.”

Developments:

◾ Vladimir Rogov, a Russian official in Ukraine’s partly occupied Zaporizhzhia province, said fighting resumed on its border with the eastern Donetsk region Monday after Russian defenses beat back a Ukrainian advance the previous day.

◾ Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk are two of the four provinces President Vladimir Putin claimed as Russian territory last fall, along with Luhansk and Kherson. Russia occupies large stretches of the provinces.

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