Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID12157: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on October 29, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 36218 First Published: 2014 October 29 13:55 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID12157 may contain the following files: Name |...

Koler Malware Propagating Through SMS

A new iteration of the Android ransomware Koler has surfaced that’s trying to trick its victims into downloading the malware by propagating through SMS messages. Android users receive SMS messages containing shortened bit.ly URLs that ultimately lead to the malicious .APK. Once opened, the packag...

EFF, Snowden Dispute FBI Claims on Device Encryption

The FBI has long said that the use of strong encryption software hampers the bureau’s investigations and makes life easier for criminals. Current FBI Director James Comey continued this line of reasoning in a speech on Oct. 17, saying that the use of crypto could lead the country to a dark place,...

National Security Letters Challenged in Ninth Circuit Court

In the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco Wednesday morning, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s EFF Kurt Opsahl urged the federal appeals court to uphold a lower court’s ruling that national security letters NSLs are unconstitutional. Regardless whether the ruling is upheld, the matter of NSL...

Twitter Files Suit Over Government Restrictions on National Security Letter Data

Twitter has filed a lawsuit in federal court asking that the United States Department of Justice’s prohibitions on publishing the number and kind of government requests for data the company receives be declared unconstitutional. The suit claims that the rules infringe on Twitter’s right to free...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.fbi.com

Security researcher M4D3RS, has submitted on 10/06/2014 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.fbi.com, which at the time of submission ranked 1431720 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 13/03/2015. It is currently...

FBI Arrested CEO of 'StealthGenie' for Selling Mobile Spyware Apps

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has arrested the CEO of a UK-based company for allegedly advertising and selling a spyware app to individuals who suspect their romantic partners of cheating on them. The dodgy cell phone spyware application, dubbed as StealthGenie, monitors victims’ phone...

FBI to Open Up Malware Investigator Portal to External Researchers

SEATTLE–The FBI has developed an internal malware-analysis tool, somewhat akin to the systems used by antimalware companies, and plans to open the system up to external security researchers, academics and others. The system is known as Malware Investigator and is designed to allow FBI agents and...

The Fappening 3 — Jennifer Lawrence New Photos Leaked Online

It seems like there is no end of “celebrity photo leaks”. As part of the Fappening 3 hack, some new naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence have apparently been leaked online in the “third round” of celebrity photo leaks including, top model Cara Delevingne, actress Anna Kendrick. On Friday, new...

FBI Not Happy With Apple & Google's Encryption Policy

Users might have praised the technology companies for efforts to encrypt their latest devices that would prevent law enforcement agencies’ hands on users’ private data, but the FBI is not at all happy with Apple and Google right now. The Federal Bureau of Investigation director, James Comey, said...

More Celebrity Photos Leaked — Kim Kardashian and Others Targeted

So far people have not forgotten about the recent celebrity iCloud hacking scandal, a new wave of photographs of celebrities have been leaked in what appears to be the second edition of the massive leak related to the celebrities intimate-images on Internet earlier this month. Among the victims o...

Chinese Hackers Hacked Into U.S. Defense Contractors 20 Times In Just One Year

Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government have successfully infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors working with the government agency responsible for the transportation of military troops and goods across the globe, a Senate investigators have found. The Senate...

Apple Fixes Glitch in Find My iPhone App Connected to Celbrity Photo Leak

UPDATE–Apple has patched the vulnerability in its Find My iPhone app that likely was used in the attack that led to the publication of private photos belonging to dozens of celebrities over the weekend. The victims of the breach included actors, models and athletes such as Jennifer Lawrence and...

A New Cold War – with Many Sides

A New Cold War - with Many Sides Theres a lot we still dont know about the FBIs investigation of the data theft at JP Morgan Chase & Co. Criminal hackers based in Russia were targeting U.S. financial institutions long before Russia annexed Crimea or the West responded with sanctions. Is this trul...

Breach of Patient Identification Information

US-CERT is aware of a breach of sensitive patient identification information affecting approximately 4.5 million patients and customers of Community Health Systems, Inc. As part of DHS, US-CERT is working together with the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services to assist in sharing...

NewGOZ Gameover Zeus Botnet Rebuilds

It didn’t take long for an updated version of GameOver Zeus to make some headway in rebuilding itself. Research published today from Arbor Networks demonstrates that cybercriminals behind GameOver Zeus, which was taken down by law enforcement in early June, have renewed the botnet with at least...

Warrant Authorized FBI to Track and Infect Computers with Malware

Tor has always been a tough target for law enforcement for years, but the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has found a way to successfully track users across the network. Just a few days back, Tor made a difficult announcement that an attack on its system likely exposed its users...

Twitter 'Weighing Legal Options' On Publishing National Security Requests Data

Twitter officials are pushing the United States government for more freedom to publish specific numbers about national security information requests, and said the company is considering its legal options if the government doesn’t allow more data to be made public. In its latest transparency repor...

How Russian Hackers Placed "Digital Bomb" Into the NASDAQ

Four years ago, NASDAQ servers were compromised by Russian hackers, who were somehow able to insert a "digital bomb" into the systems of NASDAQ stock exchange, which would have been able to cause several damage to the computer systems in the stock market and could bring down the entire structure ...

CryptoLocker Infections Continue as New Rasomware Evolves

U.S. and European law enforcement officials last month, performed a coordinated takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet. At the time, they claimed that the operation also neutralized the infamous CryptoLocker ransomware, which criminals had distributed using GameOver’s infrastructure. However, Tyler...