Whistleblower Edward Snowden arrives in Moscow with the help of Wikileaks

Edward Snowden, The Whistleblower who revealed the existence of a secret US online surveillance program left Hong Kong and has landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport with help of Wikileaks. WikiLeaks said in a statement that its legal adviser Sarah Harrison was on the plane with Mr Snowden and...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden arrives in Moscow with the help of Wikileaks

Edward Snowden, The Whistleblower who revealed the existence of a secret US online surveillance program left Hong Kong and has landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport with help of Wikileaks. WikiLeaks said in a statement that its legal adviser Sarah Harrison was on the plane with Mr Snowden and...

China Accuses America of Hacking

The predominant narrative among U.S. officials and security experts is that Chinese hackers, allegedly at the behest of their government, are thoroughly compromising the computer networks of American government, defense, and public sector organizations in order to steal any valuable data. What yo...

Surveillance malware targets 350 high profile victims in 40 countries

A global cyber espionage campaign affecting over 350 high profile victims in 40 countries, appears to be the work of Chinese hackers using a Surveillance malware called "NetTraveler". Kaspersky Lab’s team of experts published a new research report about NetTraveler, which is a family of malicious...

China military to conduct training on digital warfare

As concerns are growing regarding Chinese hacking attacks, the country will undergo its first digital war games. Only two days after the U.S. has attributed cyber espionage attacks against U.S. government and business entities to the Chinese Government and Military, it was announced that the...

China military to conduct training on digital warfare

As concerns are growing regarding Chinese hacking attacks, the country will undergo its first digital war games. Only two days after the U.S. has attributed cyber espionage attacks against U.S. government and business entities to the Chinese Government and Military, it was announced that the...

Chinese hackers access major U.S. weapon system Designs

According to report published by for the Defense Department and government and defense industry officials, Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems. The compromised U.S. designs included those for combat aircraft and ships, ...

Flame One Year Later

It’s been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery of Flame should be seen as a seminal event in the evolution of malware. When Flame emerged in May 2012, some of the outside...

Chinese hackers access major U.S. weapon system Designs

According to report published by for the Defense Department and government and defense industry officials, Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems. The compromised U.S. designs included those for combat aircraft and ships, ...

Iranian Hackers targeting US oil, gas, and electric companies

For all the talk about China and the Syrian Electronic Army, it seems there's another threat to U.S. cyber interests i.e Iran. Series of potentially destructive computer attacks that have been targeting American oil, gas and electricity companies tracked back to Iran. Iranian hackers were able to...

Iranian Hackers targeting US oil, gas, and electric companies

For all the talk about China and the Syrian Electronic Army, it seems there's another threat to U.S. cyber interests i.e Iran. Series of potentially destructive computer attacks that have been targeting American oil, gas and electricity companies tracked back to Iran. Iranian hackers were able to...

Mac OS X Backdoor Found in Wild

It was inevitable another sample of the Mac OS X spyware discovered last week would surface. Researchers said today that a German investigator informed its researchers of another instance in the wild. Spread via a spear phishing campaign that’s apparently been circulating since December, the...

'The Chinese Are Not Going to Stop'

The news that the attack on Google in 2009 also compromised a database holding warrants for lawful intercept surveillance on users has raised fears about the security of national security data on private networks. Cyberspionage operations pose a serious threat to national security, and these...

Chinese hackers who breached Google in 2010 gained access to thousands of surveillance orders

In 2010, as part of what has been dubbed as Operation Aurora, Chinese hackers infiltrated a special database within Google's systems and gained access to a sensitive database worth of information about American surveillance targets. Google reported the hack publicly years ago, saying that the...

IE 8 0Day in Sunshop Targeted Espionage Malware Campaign

Lady Boyle seems to have an admirer. Malware named after a character in the Dishonored video game continues to pop up in targeted attacks against a number of high profile military and socially motivated websites. The latest surfaced about 10 days ago in an attack researchers at FireEye are callin...

Chinese hackers who breached Google in 2010 gained access to thousands of surveillance orders

In 2010, as part of what has been dubbed as Operation Aurora, Chinese hackers infiltrated a special database within Google’s systems and gained access to a sensitive database worth of information about American surveillance targets. Google reported the hack publicly years ago, saying that the...

First Large Cyber Espionage Activity against Pakistan Emanating From India

Cyber Security researchers have discovered a family of information stealing malware targeting Pakistan that originates out of India. Norman Shark, the global security leader in malware analysis solutions for enterprises, service providers and government, today released a report detailing a large...

Safe Targeted Espionage Campaign Borrows from Cybercriminals

More and more, we’re hearing about a crossing of the streams, if you will, between cybercrime and state-sponsored attackers. Elements of malware, code persistence and distribution techniques are bleeding over between one realm of hacking into the other as each side tries to fill gaps in their...

U.S. Department of Defense Officials are potential target of cyber espionage via social networking sites

In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be...

U.S. Department of Defense Officials are potential target of cyber espionage via social networking sites

In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be...