Cost of Doing APT Business Dropping

PUNTA CANA–The term APT often is used as a generic descriptor for any group–typically presumed to be government-backed and heavily financed–that is seen attacking high-value targets such as government agencies, critical infrastructure and financial systems. But the range of targets APT groups are...

Adobe issues Emergency Flash Player update to patch critical zero-day threat

Adobe is recommending that users update their Flash Players immediately. The company has published an emergency security bulletin today, that addresses vulnerabilities the Flash Player and released a patch to fix a vulnerability which is currently being exploited in a sophisticated cyber espionag...

NSA allegedly hacked Belgian Cryptography Expert with spoofed LinkedIn Profile

Cryptographer Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater has become the part of a targeted attack by the US National Security Agency NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ, first reported on Saturday morning by De Standaard. A few months back in September 2013 it was revealed that, Belgacom, the largest...

Senators Question Intelligence Officials About Snowden, Domestic Surveillance

In a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss the public portions of a new national security threat assessment, top intelligence and law enforcement officials said that attacks against financial networks and the critical infrastructure are major threats to the United States’...

XtremeRAT Malware Used in Targeted Attacks Against Israel

Espionage malware used in attacks against Israel, as well as Syrian activists, in the last 18 months has been linked to a new attack against Israel’s Civil Administration, the country’s governing body in the West Bank. Researchers at Seculert reported today that samples of XtremeRAT, a...

Israeli Defense computer hacked in Spear Phishing Attack

Hackers broke into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software. Reuters reported Israeli Defense is the latest illustrious victim of the Spear Phishing Attack, and hackers penetrated into an Israeli defense ministry computer using a malicious email...

Google Chrome Eavesdropping Exploit Published

The developer of the annyang speech recognition JavaScript library has published exploit code for a bug in Google’s Chrome browser that could allow a malicious website to eavesdrop using a computer’s microphone long after a visitor has left a website. The code disclosure is in response, said...

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...

Icefog Cyberespionage Campaign Hit 3 US Oil, Gas Companies

When the curtain was peeled back on the Icefog targeted espionage campaign in September, a new type of operator was unveiled, one that took the persistence out of advanced persistent threats APT. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab noted in uncovering Icefog that the attacks against the defense supply...

Firmware vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attack using SD Memory cards

How is it possible to exploit SD Card, USB stick and other mobile devices for hacking? Another interesting hack was presented at the Chaos Computer Congress 30C3, in Hamburg, Germany. The researchers demonstrated how it is possible to hack the microcontroller inside every SD and MicroSD flash car...

Ron Deibert on Cyber Espionage, Surveillance and Black Code

Dennis Fisher talks with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto and Citizen Lab about his group’s research into cyber espionage campaigns, the surveillance landscape and his recent book, Black Code...

Chinese Hackers spied on European Diplomats during recent G20 meetings

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China APT Hackers Target Diplomats in Ke3chang Campaign

European diplomats and ministries of foreign affairs have been targeted during recent G20 meetings by Chinese-speaking hackers conducting espionage campaigns using malware to siphon secrets from compromised computers. The latest incidents came in August when spear phishing messages spiked with...

Super 'Stuxnet' Malware development in progress to destroy Iran's nuclear program

Saudi Arabia and Israel's Mossad intelligence division are reportedly collaborating to develop a computer worm more destructive than the Stuxnet malware to spy on and destroy the software structure of Iran's nuclear program. The Iranian Fars news agency has reported: "Saudi spy chief Prince Banda...

FBI warns that Anonymous Hackers has been hacking US Government for almost a year

The FBI is warning that members of the hacktivist group Anonymous hacking collective have secretly accessed US Government computers and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago. The Hacktivists have exploited a flaw in Adobe applications to compromise the target...

FBI warns that Anonymous Hackers has been hacking US Government for almost a year

The FBI is warning that members of the hacktivist group Anonymous hacking collective have secretly accessed US Government computers and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago. The Hacktivists have exploited a flaw in Adobe applications to compromise the target...

11 China APTs Linked by Central Arms Dealer Infrastructure

As targeted Chinese espionage campaigns are disclosed, it’s easy to get caught up in the immediate impact and details with regard to the compromised site or malware samples involved. It’s also simple to discount them as separate endeavors, one-off projects targeting the secrets held so precious b...

IE Zero Day Patch Already in November Patch Tuesday Updates

Microsoft announced this afternoon that the zero-day vulnerability being exploited in a watering hole attack against an unnamed U.S.-based NGO website was already scheduled to be patched in a cumulative Internet Explorer update tomorrow. The zero-day was reported publicly on Friday by FireEye...

Stuxnet also infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant

We have a lot of information on Stuxnet virus, a powerful malware that for the first time has shown to governments the capabilities and efficiency of a cyber weapon. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kasperky security firm revealed that Stuxnet had badly infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear...

Stuxnet also infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant

We have a lot of information on Stuxnet virus, a powerful malware that for the first time has shown to governments the capabilities and efficiency of a cyber weapon. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kasperky security firm revealed that Stuxnet had badly infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear...