Nobelium, the Russian entity responsible for the SolarWinds hack last year, broke into an email marketing account used by the USAID and from there launched phishing attacks on many other organisations, Microsoft says.
April 2, 2021 last updated 16:22 ET A map of the United States shows cyberattacks in real time at the headquarters of BitDefender, a leading Romanian cybersecurity company, in Bucharest, Romania, March 5, 2015 (AP Photo by Octav Ganea and Mediafax).
A Breakthrough for U.N. Governance of Cyberspace
Over the weekend, something extraordinary happened. A working group within the United Nations, comprising all 193 of its member states, adopted a consensus report on norms for responsible state behavior in cyberspace. The report itself represents fairly limited progress, in terms of its contents, although there are some shiny objects for the cyber nerds like me who have been following this process closely. What is most significant is that there is consensus among all U.N. member states in a field that has been wrought with division and contention, especially for the past five years.