Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters threaten American Banks again

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters published a new message on their Pastebin profile , warning of a new round of cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions, beginning this week. In September and October, al-Qassam launched widespread distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against...

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters threaten American Banks again

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters published a new message on their Pastebin profile , warning of a new round of cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions, beginning this week. In September and October, al-Qassam launched widespread distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against...

Hackers break into International Atomic Energy Agency servers

The UN nuclear watchdog has acknowledged one of its former computer servers had been hacked. The stolen information was contained in a statement by a group with an Iranian-sounding name calling for an inquiry into Israel's nuclear activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA is...

Narilam malware target Iran Financial SQL Databases

Symantec recently identified a database-corrupting piece of malware targeting systems mostly in Iran, but despite early speculation that it could be related to the likes of Stuxnet and Flame, it appears to be targeting small businesses rather than the country's infrastructure. Malware Dubbed...

Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Israel and Palestine

Multiple malware attacks against both Israeli and Palestinian systems, likely to be coming from the same source, have been seen over the last year. Researchers in Norway have uncovered evidence of a vast Middle Eastern espionage network that for the past year has deployed malicious software to sp...

IRAN : US Is the source of Cyber Terrorism

An obscure group identifying itself as the Izz ad-din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters claimed responsibility for the first wave of attacks as retaliation for the amateurish Innocence of Muslims film that mocked the Islamic prophet Mohammed and sparked protests throughout the Middle East. Who's really...

miniFlame - A New cyber espionage malware discovered

Kaspersky has discovered new malware dubbed 'miniFlame', cyber espionage software directly linked to Flame. This new nation-state espionage malware that has ties to two previous espionage tools known as Flame and Gauss, and that appears to be a "high-precision, surgical attack tool" targeting...

US authorities : Iranian Hackers are Becoming a Real Pain

The U.S. have admitted they believe a series of cyber attacks on domestic banks and some foreign oil companies carried out over the last year are the handy work of a group of hackers linked to the Iranian government. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the cyberthreat from Iran has grown, and...

Internet Slows In Iran Following Attacks on Infrastructure, Communication

Hackers interrupted Internet access in various parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran yesterday after attacking a number of the country’s infrastructure and communications companies, a state official told the Reuters news agency. “Yesterday we had a heavy attack against the country’s infrastructur...

Cyber attack on Iran's Internet system Disrupts Iran Internet

IRAN state official has said that Cyber attackers have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, disrupting the Internet across the country. "Yesterday we had a heavy attack against the country's infrastructure and communications companies which has forced us to limit the...

'Historic' DDoS Attacks Against Major U.S. Banks Continue

PNC Bank appears, as promised, to be the latest victim of hacktivists carrying out denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. financial services institutions. PNC, out of Pittsburgh, joins Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America on a list of banks taken offline reportedly by a...

Iran still on target of 'Mahdi' malware after detection

In JULY Kaspersky Lab and Seculert revealed the presence of a new cyber-espionage weapon known targeting users in the Middle East. Despite the recent uncovering of the 'Madhi' malware that has infected several hundred computers in the Middle East, researchers say the virus is continuing to spread...

Infographic: Stuxnet's Cyberwar Vines Untangled

Keeping track of the relationships between various malware families can be hard, especially when you’re talking about espionage tools such as Stuxnet and Gauss. Veracode has put together an infographic as a general recap of the life and times of Stuxnet, the much-discussed cyber worm that first...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL3.x i386/x86_64

A tzdata enhancement, with updates for Venezuela, Indiana, Egypt, Gaza, South Australia, Antarctica, Brazil, and Iran is now available. The tzdata package contains data files with information regarding and rules for daylight saving times in various timezones around the world. The updated package...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

A tzdata enhancement, with updates for Venezuela, Indiana, Egypt, Gaza, South Australia, Antarctica, Brazil, and Iran is now available. The tzdata package contains data files with information regarding and rules for daylight saving times in various timezones around the world. The updated package...

Religious 'Madi' Spyware Spies on Critical Infrastructure in Middle East

A new variety of spyware has been targeting users in Iran, Israel and the Middle East for the last eight months according to joint research from Israeli security software firm Seculert and Kaspersky Lab. The new malware is using a variety of odd techniques and misdirection to entice users to...

Iran Discovers "Massive Cyber Attack," Points Finger at US, UK, Israel

Iran’s intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi claims the country has uncovered a “massive cyber attack” it believes was jointly launched by the United States, England and Israel, according to reports from PressTV, Iran’s state-owned English language news network, yesterday. “Based on obtained...

US and Israel developed Flame Malware against Iran

US and Israel developed Flame Malware against Iran Unnamed Western officials confirmed that Flame was developed by US and Israeli governments. The United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame computer virus that collected intelligence to help slow Iran's nuclear program. The massive piece...

Diving Into Flame, Researchers Find A Link To Stuxnet

Researchers digging through the code of the recently discovered Flame worm say they have come across a wealth of evidence that suggests Flame and the now-famous Stuxnet worm share a common origin. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab say that a critical module that the Flame worm used to spread is...

Keylogging Version of Anti-Censorship Software Simurgh Found

Citizen Lab found a compromised version of an anti-censorship tool that’s popular in Iran and Syria circulating with a backdoor installed. The software, Simurgh, is described by Citizen Lab as a stand-alone proxy software for Microsoft Windows users. It was used predominantly by Iranians in the...