#nation-state hacking
5 stories taggednation-state hacking.

New Zealand Sanctions 33 Russia-Linked Cyber Operators and Child Abduction Networks
Wellington's latest penalties name hackers and individuals tied to the forced removal of Ukrainian children, signalling that digital warfare now sits alongside human-rights abuses on the sanctions list.

Cyber Operations Are Now a Core Part of Modern War, Says CrowdStrike Co-Founder
Dmitri Alperovitch argues that hacking campaigns no longer just support military conflicts, they signal them, shape them, and sometimes replace them.

One C2 Kit, 30 Customers, Two Governments: How Criminal Infrastructure Is Hiding State Hackers
A security researcher traced a single command-and-control tool to roughly 30 separate operators, including two with suspected government ties. The finding breaks a core assumption most security teams quietly rely on every day.

Your Business Is Already a Wartime Target. Here Is What to Do About It.
Nation-states attacking private companies is not a future risk. It happened at scale in 2017 and the conditions that made it possible have only grown more complicated since.

Iran, Russia, and China Have Been Quietly Attacking Water Systems — and the Door Was Usually Left Unlocked
A new threat-intelligence report finds three governments targeting water and wastewater infrastructure, not primarily to poison anyone, but to cause fear, probe weaknesses, and pre-position for future conflict. The tools they're using are embarrassingly basic.