China, The New York Times and the Value of Self-Shaming

There aren’t many things that count as surprises anymore in the security industry. And the news today that The New York Times was penetrated by a team of Chinese attackers who apparently had access to large amounts of employee emails for several months certainly doesn’t fall into that category. I...

Mobile Malware Dubbed 'Bill Shocker' Targets Chinese Android Users

A new bit of malware is targeting popular apps on Android mobile devices to spew costly spam. Beijing- and Dallas-based NQ Mobile said at least 600,000 Chinese users have been hit with the malicious code named “Bill Shocker” a.expense.Extension.a because it runs up the bills of infected users whi...

God Horses are Floating Clouds: The Story of a Chinese Banker Trojan

Dong Yan In China these days, e-commerce has become an important part of daily life, especially among young people. According to a report from CNNIC China Internet Network Information Center, the number of Chinese e-commerce users reached 242 million at the end of the December 2012. This is nearl...

Android MDK Trojan Found Lurking in 11K Apps, Using AES Encryption

Android.Troj.mdk, the Trojan botnet that last week was reported to have infected one million devices, mainly Chinese Android phones, is a new variant of a separate strain of malware, Backscript, researchers say. Both variants of malware use the same certificate to sign APKs, yet Troj.mdk MDK uses...

Operation Red October : Cyber Espionage campaign against many Governments

A new sensational discovered has been announced by Kaspersky Lab's Global Research & Analysis Team result of an investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, named Re...

Malware stole 3000 confidential Documents from Japan ministry

Japan ministry become the recent victim of a cyber attack through a malware that suspected to have compromised and sent overseas more than 3,000 confidential documents from the ministry, including many on global trade negotiations. After investigation, experts found that Hackers use "HTran" the...

Malware stole 3000 confidential Documents from Japan ministry

Japan ministry become the recent victim of a cyber attack through a malware that suspected to have compromised and sent overseas more than 3,000 confidential documents from the ministry, including many on global trade negotiations. After investigation, experts found that Hackers use "HTran" the...

CFR watering hole attack also target Capstone Turbine Corporation

Last week Council on Foreign Relations website was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack using a zero day Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability for Cyber Espionage attack, suspected by Chinese Hackers. Later Microsoft confirmed that Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 are vulnerable to remote...

CFR watering hole attack also target Capstone Turbine Corporation

Last week Council on Foreign Relations website was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack using a zero day Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability for Cyber Espionage attack, suspected by Chinese Hackers. Later Microsoft confirmed that Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 are vulnerable to remote...

Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 vulnerable to remote code execution

Last Friday, we reported that the website of the U.S. Council of Foreign Relations was allegedly compromised by Chinese hackers who exploited the zero-day bug that was only discovered that same day. The CFR website was compromised with JavaScript that served malicious code to older IE browsers an...

Chinese Hackers exploiting Internet Explorer Zero Day vulnerability for Cyber Espionage

Web site for the Council on Foreign Relations was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack that was detected earlier this week. Hacker are suspected to be from China , who are exploiting a zero day Internet Explorer vulnerability for Cyber Espionage attack against one of American most...

Chinese Hackers exploiting Internet Explorer Zero Day vulnerability for Cyber Espionage

Web site for the Council on Foreign Relations was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack that was detected earlier this week. Hacker are suspected to be from China , who are exploiting a zero day Internet Explorer vulnerability for Cyber Espionage attack against one of American most...

BSNL telecom server hacked by Anonymous Group against Section 66A of IT Act

The Homepage of BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited http://www.bsnl.co.in/ was hacked today morning by hacking group Anonymous. BSNL is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company, the largest provider of fixed telephony and fourth largest mobile telephony provider in India, and is also a...

Buttons Disappear on Chinese localized servers in Veeam Backup & Replication object properties

Challenge On Chinese localized servers, buttons will not appear on standard DPI, but will show up instead once the DPI is increased to large. Solution To resolve, use Medium DPI 120 - 125% as opposed to Normal Small DPI 96 - 100%, or change the registry font settings. Note that editing the regist...

PlugX is Becoming Mature

By Dmitry Tarakanov Recently, a new Remote Administration Tool has been discovered that started appearing here and there in targeted attacks. This tool is “PlugX”. Researchers have even tracked someone suspected of creating that malware – one of the members of the Chinese hacking group NCPH, whic...

Chinese hackers target Coca-Cola and Files of Chinese Huiyuan acquisition stolen

According to the report from Bloomberg, In 2009, the FBI told Coca-Cola executives that hackers had broken into their computer systems, when a malicious link was emailed to a senior executive, but never revealed the incident. Hackers were able to spend a month operating undetected, logging...

White House : No evidence of Espionage by Huawei

According to a White House-ordered review, a giant Chinese technology company "Huawei" is not a state-sponsored espionage tool. Huawei Technologies, the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications equipment. The largely classified investigation, which delved into the security risks pose...

Chinese hackers attack on White House computers

The White House acknowledged Monday that one of its computer networks was hit by a cyber attack, but said there was no breach of any classified systems and no indication any data was lost. Including systems used by the military for nuclear commands were breached by Chinese hackers. A conservative...

Attack on SCADA Vendor Telvent Raises Concerns

Telvent, the maker of a SCADA product used in a number of critical industries, said that its corporate network has been compromised by attackers and that some of the files used by customers on their own networks were changed. This attack is the latest in what looks to be a series of incidents of...

Microsoft FixIt Will Address IE Zero-Day Vulnerability

With Internet Explorer users still exposed to as many as four active exploits of a zero-day vulnerability in the browser, Microsoft Tuesday night said it will release a FixIt in the next couple of days that will address the issue. A FixIt is an automated tool provided by Microsoft that diagnoses...