China Putter Panda APT Attacks Linked to PLA Unit 61486

With indictments still fresh against a handful of Chinese nationals accused of hacking American companies and stealing intellectual property, another branch of the People’s Liberation Army and allegedly one of its officers have been outed for cyberespionage against U.S. and European aerospace and...

Apple Ships Critical OS X 10.9.2 Security Update

Apple today shipped a security update resolving a critical certificate-validation vulnerability in its OS X Mavericks operating system. Details of the bug, which exists in OS X version 10.9.1 and is resolved by version 10.9.2, emerged on Friday after the company patched essentially the same bug i...

SSL Vulnerability Affects OSX Too

The certificate-validation vulnerability that Apple patched in iOS yesterday also affected Mac OS X up to 10.9.1, the current version. Several security researchers analyzed the patch and looked at the code in question in OS X and found that the same error exists there as in iOS. Researcher Adam...

U.S. Oil, Gas Targeted by Espionage Malware Campaign

American gas and oil companies have been targeted by a hacking group with ties to the Russian Federation for close to 18 months, a new research report indicates. The attackers have leveraged watering hole attacks to infect users inside the critical infrastructure organizations to spread a remote...

Jason Geffner on Tortilla

Dennis Fisher talks with Jason Geffner of CrowdStrike about the new tool he released at Black Hat called Tortilla and his research on malware that uses domain-generating algorithms. audio https://media.threatpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2013/08/07043604/digitalunderground120.mp3 Download...

Download Tortilla Tool - Anonymize everything through Tor

Recent disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden claiming that internet traffic is being intercepted and used by the Americans in their war on terror, force to re-think about the user's privacy and online anonymity. It has been relatively common knowledge for years that wherever we go on the we...

Download Tortilla Tool - Anonymize everything through Tor

Recent disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden claiming that internet traffic is being intercepted and used by the Americans in their war on terror, force to re-think about the user's privacy and online anonymity. It has been relatively common knowledge for years that wherever we go on the we...

Peer-to-Peer Botnet Takedowns a Challenge

The FBI, Justice Department and technology companies have had success shutting down botnets that rely on a centralized infrastructure and command and control servers to communicate with bots, steal data or send malicious commands. Peer-to-peer botnets, however, have proven more difficult to take...

Startup CrowdStrike Launches Crowd-Sourced Platform for Malware Analysis

Venture funded startup CrowdStrike has launched a new platform that will allow security researchers to work collaboratively to reverse engineer and analyze malicious code. The new platform, CrowdRE, was designed to resemble conventional software version control systems, with features that allow...