Canada NRC Hit by Apparent Chinese Cyber Attack

One of Canada’s premier research and technology organizations was hit with a cyber-attack recently that forced the cooperative offline; the attack – which appears to be Chinese in origin – was so serious the organization is being forced to rebuild its entire system. The National Research Council ...

CPNI Releases Paper on Improving Defenses Against Targeted Attack

The United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure CPNI has released a report on its “Improving Defenses Against Targeted Attack" iDATA cyber research program. The report contains descriptions and outcomes from a number of projects aimed at addressing threats posed by natio...

Google Project Zero a Big Win for Security

Billions of people–not to mention a decent portion of the world’s economies–depend upon the Internet in a way that is both amazing and terrifying. We rely on the network in a way that perhaps we have never relied on anything in the course of human history. The Internet is a wonderful resource, bu...

Twitter Upgrades Account Security Features

Twitter has made a couple of changes to the service’s login process to help prevent account takeovers and enable users to reset their passwords in a simpler way. A Twitter account is among the more valuable assets for an attacker who is targeting a specific person. Accounts typically are tied to ...

Hacking Team Hosting in U.S.

Milan-based Hacking Team relies on servers in the United States and hosted by American companies to support its clients’ state-sponsored surveillance operations in some of the world’s most repressive regimes. Hacking Team is an Italian security firm that develops surveillance equipment and sells ...

Stuxnet also infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant

We have a lot of information on Stuxnet virus, a powerful malware that for the first time has shown to governments the capabilities and efficiency of a cyber weapon. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kasperky security firm revealed that Stuxnet had badly infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear...

Stuxnet also infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant

We have a lot of information on Stuxnet virus, a powerful malware that for the first time has shown to governments the capabilities and efficiency of a cyber weapon. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kasperky security firm revealed that Stuxnet had badly infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear...

China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan Wi-Fi devices to serve malware

We have discussed many times in our stories the network of Intelligent devices, their capabilities and the possibilities that cyber criminals could exploit them for illegal activities. Hidden chips are used by cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers to infiltrate company networks and...

Israeli Road Control System hacked, caused Traffic jam on Haifa Highway

Israel is considered one of the most advanced country in cyber security, but at the same time is a privileged target for hostile governments intent in sabotage and cyber espionage on his technology. Yesterday, Cybersecurity experts revealed that a major artery in Israel's national road network...

World War C report - Motives behind State Sponsored Cyber Attacks

Nation-state driven cyber attacks are routinely conducted on a global scale to defend national sovereignty and project national power. We are living in the cyber era, human conflict is involving also the fifth domain of warfare, the cyberspace. As never before disputes take place with blows of...

World War C report - Motives behind State Sponsored Cyber Attacks

Nation-state driven cyber attacks are routinely conducted on a global scale to defend national sovereignty and project national power. We are living in the cyber era, human conflict is involving also the fifth domain of warfare, the cyberspace. As never before disputes take place with blows of...

Chinese APT Espionage campaign, dubbed 'Icefog' targeted Military contractors and Governments

Kaspersky Lab has identified another Chinese APT campaign, dubbed 'Icefog', who targeted Governmental institutions, Military contractors, maritime / shipbuilding groups, telecom operators, industrial and high technology companies and mass media. The Hacking group behind the attack who carry out...

Microsoft issues Emergency Fix for Internet Explorer zero-day exploit

All supported versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a zero-day Exploit that is currently being exploited in targeted attacks against IE 8 and IE 9, dubbed "CVE-2013-3893 MSHTML Shim Workaround". Microsoft confirmed that the flaw was unknown before the attacks and that it is already...

Microsoft issues Emergency Fix for Internet Explorer zero-day exploit

All supported versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a zero-day Exploit that is currently being exploited in targeted attacks against IE 8 and IE 9, dubbed "CVE-2013-3893 MSHTML Shim Workaround". Microsoft confirmed that the flaw was unknown before the attacks and that it is already...

Belgium's largest Telcom 'Belgacom' hacked; NSA could be behind the Attack

Belgacom, the largest telecommunications company in Belgium today announced that their IT Systems were hacked and infected with an unknown Malware. In order to eliminate that virus effectively, they clean up the entire system. The company also highlights that they have no indication of any impact...

Belgium’s largest Telcom 'Belgacom' hacked; NSA could be behind the Attack

Belgacom, the largest telecommunications company in Belgium today announced that their IT Systems were hacked and infected with an unknown Malware. In order to eliminate that virus effectively, they clean up the entire system. The company also highlights that they have no indication of any impact...

Aumlib, Ixeshe Malware Updated in Targeted China Attacks

After a quiet period, the state-sponsored hacker group blamed for attacks on the New York Times late last year has begun a number of new campaigns that feature updated versions of malware used in attacks going back to 2009. Researchers at FireEye said the group, identified as APT 12 by forensics...

Chinese Hackers group 'Comment Crew' is still active and operating under cover

Security experts are confident that the Chinese hackers group known as Comment Crew is still operating under cover. “The Comment Crew is back again” this is the rumor within Intelligence community, researchers suspect the involvement of the group of hackers in the recent cyber dispute between U.S...

Iranian Gmail users targeted by politically motivated phishing attack

Google says tens of thousands of Gmail accounts belonging to Iranian users have been targeted in an politically motivated hacking campaign in the weeks leading up to the country's closely watched presidential elections. For the last three weeks, the search giant said it has "detected and disrupte...

Iranian Gmail users targeted by politically motivated phishing attack

Google says tens of thousands of Gmail accounts belonging to Iranian users have been targeted in an politically motivated hacking campaign in the weeks leading up to the country's closely watched presidential elections. For the last three weeks, the search giant said it has "detected and disrupte...