Trump’s administration is deprioritized Russia as a cyber threat

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After years of Russian cyber aggression against the United States and its longtime allies – including repeated termination, hacker and leakage operations, misinformation campaigns, complex espionage and insolent, destructive cyberattacks – multiple action from the Trump administration overturned the position of cybersecurity. The person comes when Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are increasingly strengthening their relationships. The US Community’s permanent estimates of Russian intelligence in cyberspace and the threat it represents the United States would indicate that such a change in approach can put to the United States at risk.

This deprioritization of the threat from Russia has occurred in several different forms. The Deputy Aid of the United States State Department of International Cybersecurity Lisil Franz said during a speech in a working group of the United Nations last week that the United States is concerned about digital attacks from China and Iran, but do not mention Russia. A recent note distributed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has set priorities for the agency by focusing on China and defense of US systems, but missed every reference to Russia. And on Friday, the cybersecurity newsletter The reported record Last week, Defense Minister Pete Heget ordered US cyber command to stop all cyber operative planning against Russia, including offensive digital campaigns.

Eight days after the exchange of cryptocurrency, Bybib revealed that the hackers had stolen Ethereum assets based on Ethereum by the company, in some way, which is some of the biggest cryptocurrency theft in history. Now the competition is to track the stolen funds in blockchain, prevent its liquidation, or even restore it – and this race is driven by $ 140 million in generousness offered by Bybit itself. Bybib earlier this week starts a Website When inviting cryptocurrencies to submit your destination advice to Ethereum stolen funds and offer 5 percent of the value of all funds that these trackers can identify and help freeze or seize. Bybib has offered another 5 percent of the value as a separate reward for each cryptocurrency or other platform that receives the funds.

As of Friday, the website counted a dozen head hunters who are currently registered as part of these efforts to track cryptocurrencies and have put the current on the awards paid at about $ 4.3 million. The site also includes a ranking of trackers who have successfully identified the tranquilizers of funds by following them in blockchain or frozen funds – as well as a list of cryptocurrencies, which, in contrast, have eliminated the stolen funds on behalf of the thieves. So far, only one exchange, known as exchange, has been marked as the liquidation of $ 94 million from the stolen assets. Bybib notes that the exchange has refused to respond to its messages and the stock exchange did not respond to a BBC request for a comment.

Earlier this week, the FBI took the unusual step to publicly identify the hackers behind this massive hack of Bybit: Tradertraitor, a group of state sponsored cybercriminals operating on behalf of the North Korea government. The FBI has asked the cryptocurrency not to drink the funds of these hackers, part of the larger umbrella, widely known as Lazar, who has long struck the world of cryptocurrency and has stolen billions in both cryptocurrencies and non-crypto assets. In its signal, the desk also released a list of Ethereum addresses related to the stolen funds in an attempt to help cryptocurrency identify and seize each part of $ 1.4 billion before it could be transferred. Cryptos Tracking the company Trm Labs wrote in a Post On Thursday, about $ 400 million of the funds have already been moved and may have been successfully liquidated.

In July an entity called yourself “nullbulge” Posted 1.1-TB Three Data stolen from the Disney Slack internal archiveI divert the cleaning effort when Disney rushes to deal with the leakage revenue numbers, information about employees such as passport numbers and sensitive customer information. The violation happened after an employee of Disney, Matthew van Andel, inadvertently downloaded malware on his personal computer, which collected his entry credentials for a number of services, including essential, the password for his Vault Vault. “It is impossible to pass on the feeling of violation,” he told Wall Street Journal. Van Andel also had stolen his credit card numbers and other personal data, and then lost his job when Disney audit on his work computer claims he had gained access to porn from the device. Van Andel denies the prosecution. The episode is just one series of violations in which malware that infects the worker’s personal computer can have major consequences for the institution that uses them.

Matthia Ferrari, an Italian priest who works with a migrant rescue group and has a close relationship with the Pope, revealed this week that he had received a warning from Meta that his phone had been hacked with sophisticated Israeli paragon spy. The news follows that Luca Casarini, founder of NGO Mediterranea, rescuing the people where Ferrari serves as a Capelan, has also been compromised by his spy software, as well as the Italian investigating reporter Francesco Candelato. A series of spy infections aimed at Italian activists and a journalist raises the question of who can perform hacking operations, with opposition leaders calling on the administration of Italian Prime Minister Georgy Meloni to deal with the problem. The Meloni government has denied standing behind the hacking incidents. Pope Francis, who is currently in a critical condition with pneumonia, mentioned that he was talking to Ferrari on the phone during a television interview in January, raising the question of whether the spies that hacked Ferrari’s phone is encouraging a conversation with Pope himself.