Anonymous General Purpose Operating System: Whonix

Whonix is a free desktop operating system OS that is specifically designed for advanced security and privacy. Based on Tor, Debian GNU/Linux and the principle of security by isolation, it realistically addresses common attack vectors while maintaining usability. Online anonymity is made possible...

Variant of Mac Malware Targets Tibetan Activists

A new variant of the Mac-based OS X Imuler Trojan has emerged and is targeting Tibetan rights activists, according to a report written by Lisa Myers of Web security firm Intego. This latest variant, detected by Intego as OSX/Imuler.E, is a Trojan dropper that attempts to lure victims with promise...

New OSX/Imuler Variant Targeting Tibetan Activists

Researchers over at Intego have recently discovered a new variant of OSX/Imuler the data-stealing Mac malware, detected as OSX/Imuler.E which is believed to be targeting Tibetan rights activists. "This backdoor Trojan family was first discovered in September 2011 as a Mac PDF Trojan horse and has...

Verizon DBIR Analysis: Insiders Often Complicit in Breaches of Intellectual Property

Verizon has further dissected breach data from its annual Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR and built a profile of intellectual property theft that points to a disturbing combination of factors leading to successful infiltrations by cybercriminals, competitors, hacktivists and nation-state...

DarkComet RAT Used in New Attack on Syrian Activists

There is a new attack campaign that’s targeting dissidents in Syria by enticing them to install an alleged security tool called AntiHacker, but instead installs the infamous DarkComet remote access tool that has the ability to log keystrokes, capture webcam images and take other surreptitious...

Blackshades RAT Pops Up in Attacks on Syrian Activists

They just do not stop having targeted malware attacks in Syria. Just a few days after the author of the Dark Comet RAT announced he was shutting down development and sales of the tool, partly because it was used in attacks by the Syrian government, experts have found that pro-government attackers...

Syrian Dissidents Hit By Another Wave of Targeted Attacks

One of the attackers who has been targeting Syrian anti-government activists with malware and surveillance tools has returned and upped the ante with the use of the BlackShades RAT, a remote-access tool that gives him the ability to spy on victims machines through keylogging and screenshots. The...

Stolen Certificates Found in Malware Possibly Targeting Tibetan Groups

The recent trend of attackers using stolen digital certificates to make their malicious executables look legitimate is continuing unabated, with researchers now having come across a series of variants of the Etchfro Trojan that are using certificates taken from several companies and issued by...

Report: Syrian Government Using Targeted Skype Attacks, Malware To Spy On Dissidents

In a post on the F-Secure Labs blog, Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen says the firm received a hard drive image from a “contact” within Syria who believed that his computer had been compromised. An F-Secure analysis of the drive’s contents and Web history revealed evidence of a targeted atta...

Chinese hacker targeting Indian government and Tibetan activists Sites

Chinese hacker targeting Indian government and Tibetan activists Sites Websites of Indian government and Tibetan activists in the country are under attack in a cyber attack campaign engineered by a Chinese hacker, working with one of the world's largest e-tailers Tencent. The cyber criminal in...

Pro-Syrian Malware Targets, Impedes Activists

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF warned this week that political activists in Iran and Syria are being targeted in malware attacks disgised as Adobe Flash Player updates on Youtube. In a blog post by the EFF’s Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire on Thursday said the attacks occur after...

The Syrian spyware to target the opposition activists

The Syrian spyware to target the opposition activists CNN News reported about malicious programs used to target the Syrian opposition, Its a computer viruses that spy on them and according to report a Syrian opposition group and a former international aid worker whose computer was infected. They...

Russian hackers hit Twitter with automated hashtags tweets

Russian hackers hit Twitter with automated hashtags tweets Russian hackers have taken aim at Twitter in recent days to hamper communication between opposition activists as outrage against the conduct of last week's general elections grows. The pro-government messages were generated by thousands o...

Israeli Military, Intelligence Sites Down After Threat by Anonymous

The Websites of Israel’s Mossad and Shinbet intelligence services as well as the Israel Defense Forces IDF site were knocked offline today following a Nov. 4 threat by Anonymous. However, members of the group may not be to blame. On Nov. 4, members of Anonymous threatened a cyber-attack in...

Emperor Hacking Team : iM4n account exposed

Emperor Hacking Team : iM4n account exposed Just a few days back, the Backbox Linux distribution based website got hacked by the Emperor Hacking Team. A few hours later, Backbox maintainers managed to reconstruct the attack step by step and found infos that proved "iM4n" as the attacker. He owns ...

Emperor Hacking Team : iM4n account exposed

Emperor Hacking Team : iM4n account exposed Just a few days back, the Backbox Linux distribution based website got hacked by the Emperor Hacking Team. A few hours later, Backbox maintainers managed to reconstruct the attack step by step and found infos that proved "iM4n" as the attacker. He owns ...

Project Tarmeggedon by Anonymous Hackers Operation Green Rights

Project Tarmeggedon by Anonymous Hackers Operation Green Rights Anonymous hackers Starts Project Tarmeggedon , Presents by Operation Green Rights. Hackers calling everyone to Protest. Press Release By Anonymous Hackers : Free-thinking citizens of the world: Anonymous' Operation Green Rights calls...

China-Based Attacks Targeted Gmail of U.S. Officials, Activists

Search giant Google has again sounded the alarm about sophisticated attacks emanating from mainland China and targeting officials within the U.S. and Asian governments, as well as human rights activists and journalists. Samples of some of the messages posted on an independent researcher’s blog...

September, 2000: NGO Strategy Memo Leaked

Put together a list of Sony’s missteps, and one theme comes to the fore: “control.” Indeed, the company that proved so adept at anticipating the needs of consumers and producing products to match, has stumbled the worst when it tries to dictate, rather than listen. That was the case with Sony’s...

Internal Affairs may be next target for #Anonymous !

There's confusion tonight as to whether international cyber vandals have tried to hack websites run by the Department of Internal Affairs. A group called Anonymous has threatened to attack internal affairs because it operates a filter that identifies child porn websites - which the cyber activist...