Covert influence is the new money laundering

[ad_1] Cortney Weinbaum Contributor Cortney Weinbaum is a national security researcher with the Cyber and Intelligence Policy Center at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and a former intelligence officer in the U.S. intelligence community. Google is the most recent company known to have discovered evidence of Russian covert influence on its books. As more media companies…

Hackers are bombarding the Bank of Canada with cyber attacks and the chink in the bank’s armour is its employees

[ad_1] Employees at the Bank of Canada in November 2015 were bombarded with 25,000 similar, innocuous-looking emails. The messages came in both official languages, politely asking recipients to review an invoice in an attached Microsoft Word document. The document was armed with code that would attempt to install a colourfully named program — putinanalking.exe — carrying…