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France accuses Russian intelligence of repeated cyber attacks since 2021

France's foreign ministry explicitly accused Russia's GRU military intelligence agency on Tuesday of mounting cyber attacks on a dozen entities including ministries, defense firms and think tanks since 2021 in an attempt to destabilize France.

#France #russia #cyberattack #gru #apt28 #security #cybersecurity #hackers #Hacking #hacked

reuters.com/world/europe/first

#Government #hackers are leading the use of attributed #zerodays
Google’s says number of #0day #exploits — flaws unknown to the software makers at the time hackers abused them — had dropped from 98 exploits in 2023 to 75 exploits in 2024. But the report noted that of the proportion of zero-days that Google could attribute — meaning identifying the hackers who were responsible for exploiting them — at least 23 zero-day exploits were linked to government-backed hackers.
techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/gove

TechCrunch · Government hackers are leading the use of attributed zero-days, Google says | TechCrunchGovernments like China and North Korea, along with spyware makers, used the most recorded zero-days in 2024.

Somehow #Hackers is 30 years old this year. And still fresh. OK maybe not, but still fun. For lulz, NCC Group and I are marking this with a screening for our hackery friends heading to #CyberUK next week. Wanna come? Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/hackers-for

EventbriteHackers for HackersMake the most out of CYBERUK2025 in Manchester - join us at the Cultplex to watch Hackers with a bunch of .. .er ... hackers

Psst, hey: HACKERS ARE NOT TECH BROS. The vast majority of hackers never become tech bros. The ethics of hacking runs completely counter to that of tech bros.

Hackers make hardware do things they weren’t intended to do. They circumvent barriers. They string together contraptions that repurpose old stuff to do new things. Hackers aren’t that interested in money; they’re more interested in showing off their skills. They love to learn and make demos and create and share free tech that other hackers then build upon. All they want is acknoweledgement and the respect of their peers.

Tech bros are parasites. They’re greedy bastards who love to erect barriers between people and tech. They extract, addict, monetize. They turn everything fun and useful into a transaction, a dopamine trap, a subscription, a surveillance tool, an advertising outlet, and a vector to extract money from labor and suppliers.

Please don’t get them mixed up.