France May Offer Asylum to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange

In wake of the latest revelations about the National Security Agency NSA global spying on country’s leaders, France may decide to offer political asylum to whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, as a "symbolic gesture." Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who is facing criminal...

Stolen U.S. Government Credentials Found Online

Credentials stolen in breaches and sundry hacks belonging to close to 100 unique U.S. government domains are scattered among a number of paste sites and are searchable in other locations online. Analysts at Recorded Future said on Wednesday that through open source intelligence gathering and...

Hill Debates Course of Action on China Cyberespionage

Lawmakers and experts on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today debated with and quizzed security and legal experts on the best course of action against cyberespionage attributed to China. The Senate committee heard pros and cons related to a number of possible scenarios...

Duqu Resurfaces With New Round of Victims, Including Kaspersky Lab

The Duqu attackers, who are considered by researchers to be at the top of the food chain of APT groups and are responsible for attacking certificate authorities and perhaps spying on Iran’s nuclear program, have resurfaced with a new platform that was used to compromise high-profile victims,...

Volatile Cedar — Global Cyber Espionage Campaign Discovered

Security firm Check Point has uncovered what seems to be a successful, and long-running, cyber-surveillance campaign called “Volatile Cedar.” Check Point found that targets of the attack included, but were not limited to, defense contractors, media companies, telecommunications, and educational...

Justice Department Charges Six Chinese Nationals with Insider Theft

The Justice Department has issued a 32-count indictment including charges of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets against a pair of Chinese professors along with four other citizens of the People’s Republic of China. Authorities last Sunday arrested one of the alleged, Professor Hao Zhan...

Chinese Hackers Target Air-Gapped Networks in Southeast Asia

A State-sponsored Cyber Espionage Group -- most likely linked to the Chinese government becomes the first group to target the so-called "Air-Gapped Networks" that aren't directly connected to the Internet. What are Air-Gapped systems? Air-gapped systems are known to be the most safest and secure...

China Finally Admits It Has Army of Hackers

China finally admits it has special cyber warfare units — and a lot of them. From years China has been suspected by U.S. and many other countries for carrying out several high-profile cyber attacks, but every time the country strongly denied the claims. However, for the first time the country has...

CASPER Surveillance Malware Linked to French Government

Last month, cyber security researchers spotted a new strain of french surveillance malware, dubbed "Babar," which revealed that even French Government and its spying agency the General Directorate for External Security DGSE is dedicatedly involved in conducting surveillance operation just like th...

Desert Falcons: First Arabic Cyberespionage Operation Uncovered

CANCUN, Mexico — A Middle Eastern cyberespionage gang is capitalizing on subpar security practices in the region to backdoor a mix of business, political and military targets. Dubbed Desert Falcons, the gang is thought to be the first Arabic APT operation, according to researchers at Kaspersky La...

Inside nls_933w.dll, the Equation APT Persistence Module

CANCUN – The names called out like beacons from the screen: Samsung; Seagate; Western Digital; Hitachi; Maxtor. Hardware makers were in the crosshairs of the Equation APT group and it was perhaps the worst possible scenario imagined by researchers looking at the frightening and extensive storehou...

Espionage Campaign targets iOS devices with Malware apps

A malware campaign has been found targeting iOS devices linked to a wide range of entities, including European defense organizations, governments, and media sectors with dangerous espionage spyware capable of breaching non-jailbroken devices, a recent report claims. The spyware campaign, dubbed...

Links Found between NSA, Regin Spy tool and QWERTY Keylogger

​Researchers have uncovered a new evidence that a powerful computer program discovered last year, called "Regin", is "identical in functionality" to a piece of malware used by the National Security Agency NSA and its Five Eyes allies. REGIN MALWARE "Regin" is a highly advanced, sophisticated piec...

Regin Cyberespionage Malware Platform Modules Disclosed

The Regin malware platform used to steal secrets from government agencies, banks and GSM network operators caught the attention of security experts who called it one of the most advanced attack platforms that has been studied, surpassing Flame, Duqu, even Stuxnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab sai...

Chinese Spies Stole Australia’s New F-35 Lightning-II fighter Jet Design, Snowden Reveals

The latest document release by Edward Snowden revealed the industrial-scale cyber-espionage operation of China to learn the secrets of Australia's next front-line fighter aircraft – the US-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter JSF. Chinese spies stole "many terabytes of data" about the design of...

2015 Computer Security Risks and Trends to Watch

P4ssw0rds got you down? POODLEs Bashing you over the head giving you Heartbleed? Well, bad puns aside, 2014 was a rough year and you can surely expect more of the same in 2015—with a few new twists. Hackers will still chase credit card numbers and point-of-sale systems, but they’ve got their eye ...

Linux Modules Connected to Turla APT Attacks Discovered

The Turla APT campaigns have a broader reach than initially anticipated after the recent discovery of two modules built to infect servers running Linux. Until now, every Turla sample in captivity was designed for either 32- or 64-bit Windows systems, but researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discover...

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...