Israeli Defense Firms Hacked For 10-Month Span

Detailed schematics for a particular type of anti-ballistic missile, information about rockets, and pages upon pages of other mechanical documents were allegedly stolen from a trio of Israeli defense contractors between 2011 and 2012, it was revealed today. A Maryland-based threat intelligence fi...

Icefog Targeted APT Attacks Hit South Korea, Japan

An espionage campaign featuring precise targeting of victims and malware that allows the attackers one-on-one interaction with compromised systems has been uncovered. Government agencies, manufacturers, high tech companies and media organizations in South Korea and Japan have been the primary...

Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack spreads on 9 other sites

Watering hole Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack on the US Department of Labor website last week has spread to 9 more global websites over the weekend, including those run by a big European company operating in the aerospace, defense, and security industries as well as non-profit groups and...

Chinese Hackers targeting American Drones under Operation Beebus

FireEye experts have been tracking the Operation Beebus campaign for a few months now, and new same gang of hackers are being blamed for a set of recently discovered spear-phishing attacks that aim to steal information related to American drones. These attacks exploited previously discovered...

Report Details Coca-Cola Cyber Attack That Never was Disclosed

In an exclusive report, Bloomberg News outlines a month-long, systematic attack on Cola-Cola’s computer systems that may have influenced the failed $2.4 billion acquisition of a Chinese juice company. The FBI knew about it. Coca-Cola knew about it. But shareholders were kept in the dark. The Coke...

NASA Computers Hacked Repeatedly in Last Two Years

NASA has been hit repeatedly by hackers during the last two years – including an incident where attackers compromised systems at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The situation was revealed in testimony Feb. 29 by NASA Inspector General Paul Martin before the House Science, Space and...

Zero-day Smartphone Vulnerability exposes location and User Data

Zero-day Smartphone Vulnerability exposes location and User Data Smartphones are increasingly becoming the preferred device for both personal and professional computing, which has also attracted hackers to increase their focus on creating malware and other security vulnerabilities for these...

Obama-Favored Think Tank Used as Bait in Spear Phishing Attacks

Spear phishing attacks against U.S. government officials, politicians and public policy wonks are using a D.C. think tank favored by the Obama Administration as bait, according to a report from researcher Mila Parkour. A new report out from virus researcher Mila Parkour on the blog Contagio says...

Malware Piggybacks On Anti-Phishing Software

Malware authors have discovered a shortcut to create a Trojan horse program: using components from an anti-phishing product from China-based Zhuhai Kingsoft Software. Symantec researcher Poul Jensen wrote about the malware on that company’s Connect blog on Wednesday. The Trojan package...

Microsoft Confirms IE Zero-Day Used in Google Attack

Hackers linked to China used a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to compromise corporate systems at more than 30 U.S. companies, including Google, Adobe and Juniper Networks. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is still unpatched and can lead to remote code...