The Bin Laden Letter Is Being Weaponized by the Far Right

Far-right influencers and right-wing lawmakers are using the spread of Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” to call for a TikTok ban and boost decades old conspiracies...

FBI Analyst Indicted for Theft of Osama bin Laden Threat Intel

An FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance illegally squirreled away national-security documents related to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, cybersecurity and more in her home for years, the feds say. Kendra Kingsbury, who was working in the FBI’s Kansas City Division until being put on leave in...

Chris Soghoian on Lessons from the Bin Laden Raid and Cyberwar

Chris Soghoian has made a name for himself as a security and privacy researcher and has been the bane of government agencies and organizations prone to being somewhat less than upfront about their security and privacy practices. In this video from the Personal Democracy Forum in New York this wee...

Iran Replicating Captured U.S. Drone RQ-170 Sentinel

Iran Replicating Captured U.S. Drone RQ-170 Sentinel Iranian military aerospace chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh was quoted having said:"The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated the plane." Iran has broke the encryption codes and begun construction of a replica of the Unit...

Facebook Scam Claims Justin Bieber Stabbed

Teen pop sensation and Rachel Maddow look-alike, Justin Bieber, was not stabbed outside a Los Angeles nightclub, nor was he stabbed outside a nightclub in New York, as two current Facebook spam campaigns allege. Reports claiming that the 17 year-old Canadian megastar had been stabbed by a crazed...

Shocking Winehouse Death Videos Linked to Scams

Scammers wasted little time generating campaigns to exploit the untimely death of troubled pop-diva, Amy Winehouse. Anti malware experts have identified at least five separate scams attempting to exploit the event, promising videos of Winehouse shortly before her death.The scams include Facebook...

Spam Increased From April to May, Nearly Identical to 2010 Levels

Spam numbers were up by 2.1% in May from the previous month, accounting for 82.9% of global email traffic according to SecureList’s May 2011 spam report. The big story last month, however, was the exploitation of Osama bin Laden’s death by scammers of all kinds. Malware distributors were the firs...

Operation Cupcake : MI6 hacks al-Qaeda website !

As part of its cyber-warfare operations, British spy agency MI6 has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced ''bomb-making'' instructions with a recipe for cupcakes, a media report said. The operation was launched by MI6 in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian...

Ronaldinho website hacked by Osama bin Laden supporter !

Ronaldinho website hacked by Osama bin Laden supporter ! Ronaldinho's website has been hacked by someone appearing to support Osama bin Laden. GloboEsporte.com reports the hacker posted a photo of bin Laden and statements supporting Islam, as well as comments in Arabic attacking Ronaldinho's...

Fake Mac OSX AV Continues To Spread

Attacks targeted at users of Apples Mac OSX may be more common than previously thought, according to a post on Kaspersky Lab’s Securelist blog. A recent spate of attacks that use infected Google Image searches to compromise user machines is also serving up fake anti-virus to users of OSX, accordi...

Bin Laden Home Videos Feed Google Image Attacks

Online scammers are recycling video and images released in the wake of the U.S. special forces raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound to fuel Web based attacks that have been linked to rogue anti virus installations and botnets, according to Kaspersky Lab. Screenshot stills taken from home...

Report: bin Laden Raid Yields Treasure Trove of Data

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Navy Seals hauled off a treasure trove of data, including computers, hard drives and portable storage devices, following their successful raid on the compound of Osama bin Laden – a raid that culminated with the death of the terrorist leader. Navy SEALS...

Malware and Spam Campaigns Related to Bin Laden Not Finding Many Takers

As has become their custom, attackers and malware authors jumped on the death of Osama Bin Laden Monday, using black hat SEO, Facebook scams and Twitter spam. However, unlike other recent major news events, the attempts to lure people into clicking on malicious links or downloading Trojaned files...

Hackers exploit Bin Laden death on Facebook !

Hackers exploit Bin Laden death on Facebook ! A tip to the newbies starting out, reads a post from a man at the Black Hat World forums, now's a good time to make some money out of Bin Laden's death. The news is awash with reports about Bin Laden shot by the US and then buried at sea. Twitter and...

Bin Laden's Hideout On Google The Whole Time?

UPDATED: Osama bin Laden may have been the U.S.’s most wanted fugitive for the last decade, but his comfortable mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan was there for all to see – providing they had Google Earth and knew where to look. In the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama’s surprise...

Web, E-mail and Facebook Exploit Osama bin Laden's Death

Spammers have jumped on Sunday’s news of the death of Osama bin Laden, lacing new spam e-mail runs and search engine optimized Web pages with news of the Al Qaeda chief’s demise at the hands of U.S. special forces. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab began detecting spam e-mail campaigns and search engi...