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U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid

U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid

WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said.

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OMG Botnet (Mirai Variant Turns IoT Devs Into Proxy Servers) - Information Security Buzz

In response to reports by the FortiGuard Labs team on the emergence of the OMG botnet, a new Mirai variant that seeks to turn IoT devices into proxy servers – two cybersecurity experts commented below. Sean Newman, Director Product Management at Corero Network Security: “We’re used to seeing Mirai variants being used to commandeer IoT devices across the …

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Bundeshack -Veritabler Cyberangriff- läuft weiter, Details bleiben vorerst geheim

Das Parlamentarische Kontrollgremium (PKGr) gibt sich äußerst zugeknöpft, was die Hackerattacke auf die Bundesregierung angeht. Man wolle dazu keine näheren Angaben machen, da diese -eine Warnung- an die Angreifer sein könnten.

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