Cyber espionage is a powerful tool in modern warfare. It can be used to spy on prominent individuals like political leaders, government officials, and business heads, spread disinformation, and even ...

In Monday’s IT Blogwatch, GhostNet researchers unravel spyware from China; some do, and some do not, blame the Chinese government. Not to mention Bet Smart … Jeremy Kirk fills us in on the details: A ...

Today saw the publication of a fascinating research paper by the Information Warfare Monitor project. The paper, entitled “Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network”, investigates ...

An investigation into allegations of Chinese cyberwarfare against the Tibetan community has led to the discovery of a more widespread cyberespionage network that also has targeted high-profile ...

As a result of some tremendous work done by researchers at the University of Toronto, we now know that there is an enormous network of compromised machines in more than 100 countries around the world, ...

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how BackConnect Inc. — a company that defends victims against large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — admitted to hijacking hundreds of Internet ...