Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

A China-based threat actor has ramped up efforts to distribute the ScanBox reconnaissance framework to victims that include domestic Australian organizations and offshore energy firms in the South China Sea. The bait used by the advanced threat group APT is targeted messages that supposedly link...

Nigerian Man Hacked Thousands of Global Oil & Gas and Energy Firms

By Uzair Amir The IT security researchers at CheckPoint cyber security firm headquartered in This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nigerian Man Hacked Thousands of Global Oil Gas and Energy Firms...

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...

Human Rights organisation website Serves Gh0st RAT Trojan

Human Rights organisation website Serves Gh0st RAT Trojan According to the company's Security Labs blog, Amnesty International's United Kingdom website was compromised and hosting the potent Gh0st RAT Trojan earlier this week. Malicious Java code was planted on the site in a bid to push the Gh0st...