Conti Ransomware Operation Shut Down After Splitting into Smaller Groups

Even as the operators of Conti threatened to overthrow the Costa Rican government, the notorious cybercrime gang officially took down its attack infrastructure in favor of migrating their malicious cyber activities to other ancillary operations, including Karakurt and BlackByte. "From the...

Fake News and Influence: Information Warfare in the Digital Age

It’s 2019 and we live in a world where understanding what is real and what is fake can be challenging. For the security community, we increasingly deal with information warfare adversaries that rely on that fact; and, operating at internet scale, are capable of causing plenty of havoc...

RSA Conference 2019: How to Be Better, on Trust, AI and IoT

SAN FRANCISCO – The slogan of this year’s RSA Conference is “Better” – and accordingly, Tuesday morning’s keynotes zeroed in on reversing some of the disturbing sociological trends that have been festering of late. That includes “information warfare,” meant to undermine citizens’ trust in media a...

January 17, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Australian Open” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 17, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Confidence in legacy...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2018

Download the Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2018 Introduction As hard as it is to believe, it's once again time for our APT Predictions. Looking back at a year like 2017 brings the internal conflict of being a security researcher into full view: on the one hand, each new even...

Talos Targets Disinformation with Fake News Challenge Victory

This post was authored by Sean Baird with contributions by Doug Sibley and Yuxi PanExecutive SummaryFor the past several months, the problem of “fake news” has been abuzz in news headlines, tweets, and social media posts across the web. With historical roots in information warfare and...

wu-ftpd 2.6.0 - Remote Format Strings Exploit

No description provided by source. / 12:40 11/10/00: Tool for either attack or defense within an information warfare setting. Rather, it is a small program demonstrating proof of concept. Default values for solaris 2.8 and inetd. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for...

Growing market of zero-day vulnerability exploits pose real threat to Cyber Security

NSS Labs issued the report titled "The Known Unknowns" to explain the dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for "cyber conflict" to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an...

Finger-Pointing on Cyberespionage Does Little Good Without Plan

In its annual report to Congress detailing the capabilities of and threats from China, Pentagon officials spend dozens of pages explaining the People’s Liberation Army’s strengths and weaknesses in each area, from nuclear weapons to artillery to information warfare. It reads the way you would...

Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities

MIAMI BEACH–The U.S. military has been attempting to build up the offensive cybersecurity capabilities in its various services for several years now, but is running into the same obstacles and challenges that private sector firms in the same space are: a shortage of skilled workers and not enough...

Air Force Openly Seeking Cyber-Weapons

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center AFLCMC posted a broad agency announcement PDF recently, calling on contractors to submit concept papers detailing technological demonstrations of ‘cyberspace warfare operations’ CWO capabilities. The Air Force is looking to obtain CWO capabilities fallin...

Despite Intrusions, Chances Of U.S.-China Cyber War Are Small

SAN FRANCISCO – A panel of security and policy experts said that, despite dire warnings about the information warfare capabilities of China and other developing nations, the risk of an all-out cyber war is remote, and that the U.S. still holds many of the cards. Despite widespread portrayals of...

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome Security Expert, from Security Affairs - Pierluigi Paganini takes us on a visit to China via The Hacker News January Edition Magazine Article and makes us wonder just how influential China's hacking is on world internet security...

Did The September 11th Attacks Blind Us To A Digital Pearl Harbor?

It was December 8, 2000 – the waning days of the Clinton Administration. Richard Clarke, a member of President Clinton’s National Security Council, was addressing attendees at SafeNet 2000, a conference sponsored by Microsoft Corp. that brought together computer security experts from around the...

Clarke: Public Dialogue Needed on Cyberwar

Richard Clarke, a former top adviser on information security and terrorism in the Bush White House, is calling for Barack Obama to initiate an open public dialogue on the use of offensive and defensive information warfare capabilities and what the consequences of a cyberwar could be for the...

NSA chief to call for better offensive cyber capabilities

The head of the National Security Agency on Tuesday will recommend that the United States needs a major upgrade to its capabilities in both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, handing that responsibility to a new military command in Maryland. In a hearing before the House Armed Services...

North Korea upgrading cyberattack capabilities

From AFP Via Yahoo News The North Korean regime is in the process of building up its capabilities to launch offensive computer attacks, according to news reports out of South Korea. The reports say that North Korea is specifically strengthening its information warfare program with the intention o...

wu-ftpd 2.6.0 Remote Format Strings Exploit

No description provided by source. / 12:40 11/10/00: Tool for either attack or defense within an information warfare setting. Rather, it is a small program demonstrating proof of concept. Default values for solaris 2.8 and inetd. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for...

WU-FTPD 2.6.0 - Remote Format Strings

/ 12:40 11/10/00: Tool for either attack or defense within an information warfare setting. Rather, it is a small program demonstrating proof of concept. Default values for solaris 2.8 and inetd. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended...

WU-FTPD 2.6.0 - Remote Format Strings

WU-FTPD 2.6.0 - Remote Format Strings / 12:40 11/10/00: Tool for either attack or defense within an information warfare setting. Rather, it is a small program demonstrating proof of concept. Default values for solaris 2.8 and inetd. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible f...