Verizon DBIR Top Targets: Credentials, Phishing and PoS

A lack of security common sense still plagues businesses with 30 percent of phishing emails opened by campaign targets. Worse, 12 percent click on the attachments inside those phishing attacks, giving crooks easy access to systems to snarf up credentials that are later used to pull off financiall...

APT Threat Targets Tibetans, Journalists and Human Rights Workers

Tibetans, journalists and human rights workers in Hong Kong and Taiwan have been targeted in an APT campaign that makes use of Microsoft Rich Text File RTF documents to compromise computers. Researchers say it’s a new strategy by attackers in an ongoing advanced persistent threat that dates back ...

JAMES BOND: WORLD OF ESPIONAGE - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application JAMES BOND: WORLD OF ESPIONAGE published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Proofpoint Warns Of New MSIL/Crimson Tied To Cyber Espionage

Diplomats and military personnel in India have been victimized in targeted espionage attacks that use a number of means of infection including phishing and watering hole sites. Researchers at Proofpoint this week published a report on Operation Transparent Tribe, which was ongoing as of Feb. 11...

Gentle Reminder at RSA: Hacking Back is a Bad Idea

SAN FRANCISCO—Surely all breached organizations consider hacking back as some means of response to being attacked and losing intellectual property. Thankfully there was a room full of lawyers at RSA Conference on Wednesday to remind IT pros of what a colossally bad idea that is. Putting aside the...

Five-Year 'Dust Storm' APT Campaign Seen Targeting Japanese Critical Infrastructure

A five-year campaign primarily focused on extracting sensitive information from Japanese oil, gas, and electric utilities was outlined by researchers on Tuesday. Referred to as Operation Dust Storm .PDF by researchers at Cylance, the campaign has managed to stay persistent over the years, and...

Power Grid Honeypot Puts Face on Attacks

TENERIFE, Spain –The rhetoric around hacking the power grid would have you believe it’s a relatively mundane practice. Policymakers, intelligence agencies and vendors, for example, spread the word gleefully, leaning on scenarios such as state-sponsored hackers shutting off the lights in the dead ...

United Nations Rules in Favor of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

VICTORY! As a result of the legal action against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by both British and Swedish Governments, he has been arbitrarily detained by the United Kingdom and Sweden since his arrest in London over five years ago. However, Assange filed a complaint against both the...

Wikileak's Julian Assange Could Be Set Free On Friday by United Nation

The decision of the United Nations investigation into the Julian Assange case is set to be revealed and could order the release of Wikileaks founder on February 5. "BREAKING: UN set to announce decision on Assange's release on Friday,"BREAKING: UN set to announce decision on Assange's release on...

VirusTotal Firmware Malware Implant Scanning

Successful attacks against firmware are rare but provide hackers with one thing they covet most: persistence. Advanced attack groups have already accelerated their capabilities in finding ways to burrow into the BIOS and EFI as noted by the Snowden leaks’ description of the NSA’s attempts to...

Scarlet Mimic Behind Espionage Campaign Against Tibetan, Uyghur Activists

Researchers believe a single group is responsible for a series of attacks over the years to spy on Tibetan and Uyghur activists. For four years the group has used a cornucopia of spearphishing emails, a watering hole attack, and a backdoor Trojan to carry out espionage. Dubbed Scarlet Mimic, the...

Kaspersky Lab found that the Silverlight zero-day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, Kaspersky Lab found in the Silverlight application in the presence of a dangerous zero-day vulnerabilities, millions of users pose a security risk. On Wednesday, in a blog post, the network security company Kaspersky said the vulnerability would allow an attacker to gain access to the...

Sandworm Team and the Ukrainian Power Authority Attacks

Update 1.11.16 - SANS ICS Team Connects Dots Updating the blog entry to bring attention to the recent analysis published by Mike Assante from the SANS ICS team. "After analyzing the information that has been made available by affected power companies, researchers, and the media it is clear that...

ACSC Releases 2015 Threat Report

The Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC has released its 2015 Threat Report. This report provides threat information that Australian organizations are facing, such as cyber espionage, cyber attacks, and cyber crime. Mitigation and remediation steps are also included to assist organizations with...

NSA-linked Spying Malware Infected Top German Official's Computer

The German authorities have initiated a further investigation into espionage by the United States secret service NSA and British intelligence agency GCHQ after... ...the head of the German Federal Chancellery unit had his private laptop infected. According to a recent report published by Der...

South Korea Signs Up to Cyber Theft Pledge

On Friday the Obama administration secured its second win toward establishing a new norm in cyberspace. The Joint Fact Sheet published by the White House includes the following language: "no country should conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, trade secrets, o...

APT organization PawnStorm take advantage of the latest Flash zero-day attack States, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, Trend Micro researchers discovered a new Flash vulnerability being PawnStorm cyber espionage operations use around the world the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to expand the attack. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs to attack the target PawnStorm is one of both depth and breadth of persisten...

CyberSpace — China arrested Hackers at U.S. Government Request

For the very first time in history, China has arrested hackers within its borders at the request of the United States government. The helping hands of China made me remind of recent Hollywood movie, The Martian, in which China's CNSA helped the United States' NASA to rescue astronaut Mark Watney...

ASERT Threat Intelligence Report 2015-05 PlugX Threat Activity in Myanmar-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x01 summary Myanmar is currently one engaged in important political activity of the country. 2 0 1 1 years of democratic reform is to help the government create a conducive to attract investors to the atmosphere. The country is rich in resources, has a variety of Natural Resources and stable...

Turla APT Group Abusing Satellite Internet Links

Poorly secured satellite-based Internet links are being abused by nation-state hackers, most notably by the Turla APT group, to hide command-and-control operations, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said today. Active for close to a decade, Turla’s activities were exposed last year; the Russian-speaki...