Late last year, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had some curious advice for people about texting on their smartphones. Sending texts between an iPhone and an Android ...

President Joe Biden is calling for tighter cybersecurity standards for federal agencies and contractors in a new executive ...

A major hack of the State and Commerce departments last year, also attributed to Chinese cyberspies, was enabled in part by an outdated signing key that Microsoft failed to secure, according to an ...

In July 2023, US tech giant Microsoft said the China-based hacking group Storm-0558 breached email accounts at about 25 organisations and government agencies. The breached accounts included those ...

The Treasury learned of the hacking on December ... campaign that originates in China. The investigation started in the summer following alerts from Microsoft, which named the hacker group Salt ...

Flax Typhoon, first outed by Microsoft several months later in an August 2023 report, is another China-backed hacking group, which officials say has operated under the guise of a publicly traded ...

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed an executive order that is his final stab at shoring up America’s cyber defenses after ...

Experts welcome economic sanctions against gang believed to be behind telecom hacks, but warn tougher action is needed.

A Chinese state-sponsored cyberattack on the U.S. Treasury Department, compromising workstations and unclassified documents. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

“The reality is that China is targeting critical infrastructure ... Salt Typhoon is the name given to the hacking group behind the attacks. Microsoft Corp. assigns cyberthreat actors different ...

Since then, another new China-backed hacking group called “Salt Typhoon ... to mobilize,” according to the then-FBI director. Microsoft first identified Volt Typhoon in May 2023, finding ...