NSA Planted Stuxnet-Type Malware Deep Within Hard Drive Firmware

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA may be hiding highly-sophisticated hacking payloads in the firmware of consumer hard drives over the last 15 to 20 years in a campaign, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on thousands of targets’ computers, according to an analysis by Kaspersky labs and...

Massive, Decades-Long Cyberespionage Framework Uncovered

CANCUN–Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a cyberespionage group that has been operating for at least 15 years and has worked with and supported the attackers behind Stuxnet, Flame and other highly sophisticated operations. The attackers, known as the Equation Group, used two of the zero...

Operation Cleaver — Iranian Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure Worldwide

For over past two years, Iranian hackers have infiltrated computer networks of some of the world's top organizations including airlines, defense contractors, universities, military installations, hospitals, airports, telecommunications firms, government agencies, and energy and gas companies,...

Stuxnet's First Five Victims Provided Path to Natanz

Stuxnet’s first five victims were a carefully crafted list of targets that ultimately provided the attackers with the road map they needed to get inside a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, Iran and disrupt the country’s nuclear program. Cobbled together from clues left behind by the infamous...

D.C.'s Complicated View of Cyberwar, Regulation, Liability

MINNEAPOLIS – Lawmakers and politicians trying to equate cyberwar with a kinetic battle are misguided in putting the two on equal footing, said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker today in his keynote at the Cyber Security Summit. “Cyberweapons are not like nuclear...

DHS Releases Hundreds of Documents on Wrong Project Aurora

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request for information about the Operation Aurora attack on Google and other organizations in 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released hundreds of pages of documents related not to that attack campaign, but to the Aurora project run at Idaho...

Dragonfly Russian Hackers Target 1000 Western Energy Firms

Gone are the days when cyber criminals focuses only on PCs to spread malwares and target people, whether it’s ordinary or a high profile person. Nowadays, organizations in the energy sector have become an interesting target for cyber minds. Few days ago, security researchers uncovered a...

MySQL Windows Remote System Level Exploit (Stuxnet technique) 0day

No description provided by source. MySQL Scanner & MySQL Server for Windows Remote SYSTEM Level Exploit Version 1.0 By Kingcope In the Year of 2012 http://www.exploit-db.com/sploits/23083.zip use this on a fast scan server! How to use. pnscan: the file accounts holds the user/password combination...

FreeFTPD Remote Authentication Bypass Zeroday Exploit

No description provided by source. FreeFTPD all versions Remote System Level Exploit Zero-Day -- No username needed, straightforward rooting! Discovered & Exploited By Kingcope Year 2011 -- http://www.exploit-db.com/sploits/23079.zip Example banner: WeOnlyDo-wodFTPD 2.3.6.165 This package include...

Stuxnet-like 'Havex' Malware Strikes European SCADA Systems

Security researchers have uncovered a new Stuxnet like malware, named as “Havex”, which was used in a number of previous cyber attacks against organizations in the energy sector. Just like Famous Stuxnet Worm, which was specially designed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear project, the new trojan...

Experts Worry About Future of Critical Infrastructure Security

SAN FRANCISCO–The problem of critical infrastructure security has become a key issue in the last few years, as high-profile attacks such as Stuxnet and others have grabbed headlines and alerted politicians and others to the weaknesses facing these vital systems. It’s an issue that Eugene Kaspersk...

Cyberespionage, Not Cyber Terror, is the Major Threat, Former NSA Director Says

CHANTILLY, VA–The list of threats on the Internet is long and getting longer each day. Cybercrime, nation-state attackers, cyber espionage and hacktivists all threaten the security and stability of the network and its users in one way or another. But the one threat that some experts have warned...

Cost of Doing APT Business Dropping

PUNTA CANA–The term APT often is used as a generic descriptor for any group–typically presumed to be government-backed and heavily financed–that is seen attacking high-value targets such as government agencies, critical infrastructure and financial systems. But the range of targets APT groups are...

Model Predicts Optimal Timing of a Cyber Conflict

Security researchers from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan have published a mathematical model they said will produce the proper timing for the delivery of offensive cyberweapons. Defenders can also make use of the model to understand attackers and when an targeted...

Rogue software update cause Malware attack on Japanese Nuclear Power Plant

The most critical and worst target of a State-sponsored cyber-attacks could be Hospitals, Dams, Dykes and Nuclear power stations and this may cause military conflicts between countries. According to Japan Today, The Monju nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan was accidentally targeted by a malwar...

Stuxnet Malware Mitigation (Update B)

Overview In July, ICS-CERT published an advisory and a series of updates regarding the Stuxnet malware entitled “ICSA-10-201 USB Malware Targeting Siemens Control Software.” Since then, ICS-CERT has continued analysis of the Stuxnet malware in an effort to determine more about its capabilities an...

Super 'Stuxnet' Malware development in progress to destroy Iran's nuclear program

Saudi Arabia and Israel's Mossad intelligence division are reportedly collaborating to develop a computer worm more destructive than the Stuxnet malware to spy on and destroy the software structure of Iran's nuclear program. The Iranian Fars news agency has reported: "Saudi spy chief Prince Banda...

Super 'Stuxnet' Malware development in progress to destroy Iran’s nuclear program

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Stuxnet Had Older, More Complex Variant

Stuxnet was a two-headed beast as it turns out, one that could have laid waste to the Natanz nuclear facility which it infected, and one that should have, by expert accounts, remained undetected if not for the noisier yet less complex second attack routine that is now familiar to the world...

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...