Oil, Energy Watering Hole Attacks Linked to DOL attack

A string of watering hole attacks targeting oil and energy companies dating back to May could be linked to similar attacks against the U.S. Department of Labor website. Researchers at Cisco discovered the compromised domains of 10 oil and energy companies worldwide, including hydroelectric plants...

Kaspersky revealed "Kimsuky" Cyber Espionage campaign targeting South Korea

Russian Security Firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed that it has been following a sustained attack on South Korea by hackers seemingly based in North Korea., This new Cyber Espionage campaign dubbed "Kimsuky" has targeted several South Korean think tanks. Researchers believe the Kimsuky malware is mo...

Kaspersky revealed "Kimsuky" Cyber Espionage campaign targeting South Korea

Russian Security Firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed that it has been following a sustained attack on South Korea by hackers seemingly based in North Korea., This new Cyber Espionage campaign dubbed "Kimsuky" has targeted several South Korean think tanks. Researchers believe the Kimsuky malware is mo...

North Korea Spying on South Korea Using Espionage Malware

For the time being, things on the Korean peninsula may have quieted down politically and militarily. But hackers on both sides continue to take shots at each other. The latest salvo appears to be coming from North Korea, which has been conducting an extensive espionage campaign against specific...

NSA can access your data on Smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices

National Security Agency NSA has the capability to access a broad range of data on most Smartphones out there, including iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices, according to the documents provided by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden to the German news agency Der Spiegel report. A...

Njw0rm RAT Spreads Via USB Drives, Steals No-IP Credentials

Remote access Trojans, or RATs, are typically stay-at-home creatures. Central to a good many targeted attacks for their ability to steal data from compromised computers, RATs aren’t generally built with the capability to spread to more machines. A variant of njRAT, however, has broken that mold...

NSA misused PRISM - Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying

Before NSA said that they has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency's authorities, but NSA had violated privacy rules on thousands of occasions. According to documents seen by SPIEGEL, Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency. The US intelligence...

National Security threats to be detailed at 'The Hackers Conference' 2013 | #THC2013

The recent “disconcerting" reports that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. The revelation that the Indian embassy in the US was among the list of 38 diplomatic missions which were being spied upon by American...

Russia grants one year asylum to Edward Snowden, The Most wanted man on Earth

Edward Snowden, the former U.S. The intelligence contractor wanted for revealing the National Security Agency's secret program to collect American phone and internet records, left at Moscow airport after Russian authorities granted him temporary asylum for one year. Mr Snowden's lawyer Anatoly...

NSA’s #XKeyscore program could read Facebook Chats And Private Messages

According to a new report revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, The National Security Agency has a secret program that allows it to see just about everything a person does on the Internet. An NSA tool called DNI Presenter, used to read the content of stored emails, also enables an analyst using...

Russia has never extradited anyone and will not extradite Snowden to US

A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin says, "Russia has never extradited anyone, and will not extradite,". Moscow security agency FSB is in talks with the FBI over Snowden, but the whistleblower will not be extradited to the US. The Russian immigration ministry granted Snowden a document this...

Russia has never extradited anyone and will not extradite Snowden to US

A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin says, “Russia has never extradited anyone, and will not extradite,”. Moscow security agency FSB is in talks with the FBI over Snowden, but the whistleblower will not be extradited to the US. The Russian immigration ministry granted Snowden a document this...

Sim Card Cloning Hack affect 750 millions users around the world

SIM cards are among the most widely-deployed computing platforms with over 7 billion cards in active use. Cracking SIM cards has long been the Holy Grail of hackers because the tiny devices are located in phones and allow operators to identify and authenticate subscribers as they use networks. A...

TrueType Font Exploits Gateway to Kernel Attacks

Font-parsing vulnerabilities weren’t part of the security consciousness much until the discovery of Duqu at the end of 2011. The spy malware hooked into the Windows kernel through bugs in the TrueType font file parsing engine, and not only breathed new life into the concept of cyber espionage, bu...

Operation Troy espionage campaign : Hackers steal South Korean military secrets

McAfee Lab researchers issued a report on the large scale cyber attacks against South Korea that appear to be linked to hackers also specialized in cyber espionage. The attackers behind these recent attacks against South Korean infrastructure are skilled professionals and they designed a...

Operation Troy espionage campaign : Hackers steal South Korean military secrets

McAfee Lab researchers issued a report on the large scale cyber attacks against South Korea that appear to be linked to hackers also specialized in cyber espionage. The attackers behind these recent attacks against South Korean infrastructure are skilled professionals and they designed a...

Snowden says, NSA works closely with Germany and other Western state for spying

In an interview to be published in this week's of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states. The interview was conducted by US cryptography expert Jacob Appelbaum and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras using encrypte...

Hidden microphone found in Ecuador's embassy in UK

A hidden microphone was found in Ecuador's embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is sheltering from extradition to Sweden, The Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino claimed. The microphone was found in the office of the ambassador Ana Alban and was discovered last month...

Hidden microphone found in Ecuador's embassy in UK

A hidden microphone was found in Ecuador's embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is sheltering from extradition to Sweden, The Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino claimed. The microphone was found in the office of the ambassador Ana Alban and was discovered last month...

njRAT Attacks Spike Against Middle East High-Value Targets

Government agencies, telecom and energy organizations in the Middle East are being targeted by espionage malware known as njRAT. The remote access Trojan is thorough in its data-stealing capabilities. Beyond dropping a keylogger, variants are capable of accessing a computer’s camera, stealing...