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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...

Hillary Clinton's Phone Intercepted by German intelligence Agency

After the allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency NSA not only conducted mass surveillance on German citizens, but also spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own personal mobile phone for years, surveillance has become a big issue for Germany. So big, that Germany itself started...

Israeli Defense Firms Hacked For 10-Month Span

Detailed schematics for a particular type of anti-ballistic missile, information about rockets, and pages upon pages of other mechanical documents were allegedly stolen from a trio of Israeli defense contractors between 2011 and 2012, it was revealed today. A Maryland-based threat intelligence fi...

New Variant of Havex Malware Scans for OPC Servers at SCADA Systems

At the beginning of the month, we have reported about the new surge of a Stuxnet-like malware “Havex”, which was previously targeting organizations in the energy sector, had been used to carry out industrial espionage against a number of companies in Europe and compromised over 1,000 European and...

FBI — Botnets Infecting 18 Computers per Second. But How Many of Them NSA Holds?

Botnets - a secretly compromised networks of ordinary home and office computers with rogue software or "malware" that are controlled by an individual criminal or a group - has dramatically increased over the past several years and are considered to pose the biggest threat to the Internet. Cyber...

Germany to Consider Typewriters to Protect From US Spying

So far we have heard that using privacy tools by every individual and offering encrypted communication by every company is the only solution to Mass Surveillance conducted by the government and law enforcement authorities. But, Germany says the only solution to guard against surveillance is - Sto...

Chinese Hackers Broke into the Database of U.S. Federal Employees

Chinese hackers broke into the computer systems of United States government agency that keeps the personal information of all federal employees, according to the paper published in the New York Times. The attack occurred on the Office of Personnel Management and Senior American officials believe...

Dragonfly Russian Hackers Target 1000 Western Energy Firms

Gone are the days when cyber criminals focuses only on PCs to spread malwares and target people, whether it’s ordinary or a high profile person. Nowadays, organizations in the energy sector have become an interesting target for cyber minds. Few days ago, security researchers uncovered a...

Cridex Variant Geodo Part Trojan, Part Email Worm

A knockoff of the Cridex banking Trojan has surfaced with an appetite for more than online banking credentials. Seculert has called this one Geodo—a take on another of Cridex’s many aliases Feodo—and has confirmed that the malware comes with an efficient self-replicating feature borne of stolen...

Stuxnet-like 'Havex' Malware Strikes European SCADA Systems

Security researchers have uncovered a new Stuxnet like malware, named as “Havex”, which was used in a number of previous cyber attacks against organizations in the energy sector. Just like Famous Stuxnet Worm, which was specially designed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear project, the new trojan...

Mergers and Acquisitions: When Two Companies and APT Groups Come Together

With Apple’s purchase of Beats, Pfizer’s failed bids for AstraZeneca, and financial experts pointing to a rally in the M&A market, the last month was a busy one for mergers and acquisitions. Of course, when we first see headlines of a high profile company’s plans for a merger or acquisition, we...

Iranian Hackers Pose as Journalists to Spy on US Government Officials and Diplomats

The Iranian hackers may have spent years in running a creative and most dedicated cyber espionage campaign to steal government credentials with the help of Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube and Blogger. A Dallas-based computer-security firm, iSIGHT Partners, has...

U.S. Indicts Five Chinese Army Officers for Alleged Cyberespionage Operations

The United States government on Monday made an unprecedented move in its efforts to combat cyberespionage operations against American companies, efforts that until now had mainly consisted of strongly worded statements and diplomacy. The Department of Justice indicted five officers of the Chinese...

US Charges Five Chinese Military Officials with Economic Espionage

The United States has filed criminal charges against Chinese military officials for hacking and cyber espionage against several American companies. This case is first of its own kind in which the prosecutors have formally accused members of a foreign government with economic espionage charges...

Iranian Ajax Security Team targets US Defense Industry

The Iranian hacking group, which calls itself the “Ajax Security Team”, was quite famous from last few years for websites defacement attacks, and then suddenly they went into dark since past few months. But that doesn't mean that the group was inactive, rather defacing the websites, the group was...