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,...

FBI Flash Warning Alerts Businesses to Wiper Malware Attacks

The FBI issued a five-page flash warning yesterday urging American enterprises to be on the lookout for wiper malware. The alert, a Reuters report said, described some details about the malware but kept the victim anonymous. It’s general practice for the FBI not to name victims in such alerts. Th...

Regin Cyberespionage Malware Platform Targets GSM Networks

Researchers have uncovered a complex espionage platform reminiscent of Duqu that has been used since at least 2008 not only to spy on and extract email and documents from government agencies, research institutions and banks, but also one that targets GSM network operators in order to launch...

'Regin' - 'State-Sponsored' Spying Tool Targeted Govts, Infrastructures for Years

Researchers have uncovered a highly advanced, sophisticated piece of malware they believe was used to spy on a wide-range of international targets including governments, infrastructure operators and other high-profile individuals since at least 2008. The nasty malware, dubbed "Regin", is said to ...

OnionDuke APT Malware served through Tor Network

The malicious Russian Tor exit node, which was claimed to be patching binary files, is actually distributing a malware program to launch cyber-espionage attacks against European government agencies. The group behind the rogue Tor exit node had likely been infecting files for more than a year,...

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...

Darkhotel APT Malware Targets Global CEOs Using Hotel Internet

A seven-year-old cyber espionage campaign has targeted senior level executives from large global companies by using a specialized Advanced Persistent Threat APT, zero-day exploits, and well-developed keyloggers to extract information from them when they stay in luxury hotels during their business...

New BlackEnergy Crimeware Enhanced to Target Linux Systems and Cisco Routers

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have unearthed new capabilities in the BlackEnergy Crimeware weapon that has now ability to hacking routers, Linux systems and Windows, targeting industry through Cisco network devices. The antivirus vendor’s Global Research & Analysis Team released a report...

APT28 — State Sponsored Russian Hacker Group

Nearly a decade-long cyber espionage group that targeted a variety of Eastern European governments and security-related organizations including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO has been exposed by a security research firm. The US intelligence firm FireEye released its latest Advanced...

Russian APT28 Group Linked to NATO, Political Attacks

A Russian APT group tied to ongoing attacks against military and political targets in Eastern Europe and against NATO could also have ties to the MiniDuke espionage campaign uncovered more than a year ago. Dubbed APT28 by FireEye in a report published last night, the Russian hackers have targeted...

Sandworm（CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4 new variants discovered for Taiwan's APT attacks-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Xecure lab on 1 0 On 1 7, found variant of the 0day vulnerabilities worms（CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4 have been used in the for the Government of Taiwan and various units of APT attacks, the current mainstream anti-virus software also can't effectively detected. The variant can be directly embedded...

Zero-day exploit“sandworm”how to step by step enter your system Microsoft on patch today May to-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 0 9at Microsoft this month the Update Patch before the release, Trend Micro yesterday released the latest zero-day vulnerability“sandworm”CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4of the analysis report, the safety of cattle is considered that the vulnerability analysis is by far the most clear and easy to understand...

Microsoft Patches 3 Zero-day Vulnerabilities actively being Exploited in the Wild

As part of monthly patch update, Microsoft released eight security bulletins on Tuesday that address dozens of vulnerabilities including a zero-day flaw reportedly being exploited by Russian hackers to target NATO computers and a pair of zero-day Windows vulnerabilities that attackers have been...

Windows arbitrary code execution 0day（CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4）analysis report-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Tomorrow release patch windows all platforms all can trigger the OLE package Manager the INF arbitrary code execution vulnerability, CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4 in. The vulnerability affects Windows vista,win7 and aboveoperating system, the use of the Microsoft document you can trigger the vulnerability,...

Effects full version Windows: iSIGHT surveillance espionage found Windows latest 0day vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

the iSIGHT in Russian cyber-espionage discovered to affect all versions of Windows System with the latest 0day vulnerabilities, vulnerability number CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4, At present, Microsoft is the emergency of the vulnerability of making the patch. ! Yesterday, Microsoft partners iSIGHT Partner...

Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability "CVE-2014-4114" Used to Hack NATO

Once again a Russian cyber espionage group has gained media attention by exploiting a Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO, Ukrainian and Polish government agencies, and a variety of sensitive European industries over...

Harkonnen Operation — Malware Campaign that Went Undetected for 12 Years

A huge data-stealing cyber espionage campaign that targeted Banks, Corporations and Governments in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria for 12 years, has finally come for probably the longest-lived online malware operation in history. The campaign is dubbed as 'Harkonnen Operation' and involved more...

Chinese Groups Found Targeting Govt, Military Systems

Two Chinese cyber espionage campaigns are working in tandem in hopes of sniffing out trade secrets from surrounding nations. Researchers from FireEye outlined information about the two attack groups yesterday in advance of a more comprehensive report. One of the groups, Moafree, operates out of t...

Cyber Espionage Group Ported Windows Malware to Mac

Till now we have seen a series of different malware targeting Windows operating system and not Mac, thanks to Apple in way it safeguard its devices’ security. But with time, cyber criminals and malware authors have found ways to exploit Mac as well. GROUP BEHIND THE MAC VERSION OF BACKDOOR...

Community Health Systems APT Data Breach Medical Espionage

At first blush, the Community Health Systems data breach by Chinese hackers seems to be an anomaly. State-sponsored attackers generally target intellectual property for the purposes of military or economic gain; stealing healthcare credentials and personal patient records seems incongruous. But...