Supply Chain Attacks and Critical Infrastructure: How CISA Helps Secure a Nation's Crown Jewels

Critical infrastructure attacks are a preferred target for cyber criminals. Here's why and what's being done to protect them. What is Critical Infrastructure and Why is It Attacked? Critical infrastructure is the physical and digital assets, systems and networks that are vital to national securit...

A week in security (July 6 – 12)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took an in-depth look at card skimmers targeting ASP sites, we released another episode of Lock and Code exploring the Internet of Things, and we dug into a Mac mystery. We also examined some pre-installed malware, and put out a threat spotlight on some customiz...

Hackers Target Indian Nuclear Power Plant – Everything We Know So Far

A story has been making the rounds on the Internet since yesterday about a cyber attack on an Indian nuclear power plant. Due to some experts commentary on social media even after lack of information about the event and overreactions by many, the incident received factually incorrect coverage...

Cryptocurrency Mining Employees Expose Nuclear Plant to Internet

Xbox eavesdropping, email scammers, and more of the week's top security news...

Authorities arrest culprits for crypto mining at Ukraine nuclear plant

By Sudais Authorities have arrested several people for using a nuclear plant in South Ukraine for illegal crypto mining. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities arrest culprits for crypto mining at Ukraine nuclear plant...

July 24, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Shark Week” 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! July 24, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Soon, your most important...

In-Brief: Telegram Vulnerability, Malware in Nuclear Plant, Anti-Tor Malware and Hotpatching Exploit

Clickjacking Vulnerability in Telegram Web Client The official Telegram web-client that allows its users to access messenger account over desktop’s web browser is vulnerable to clickjacking web application vulnerability. Egyptian security researcher Mohamed A. Baset told The Hacker News about a...

South Korean Nuclear Power Plant Hacked

Koreans have once again gain media attention but this time not as an accused of any kind of hack attack, but as a victim of a severe attack on computers systems at a nuclear power plant in South Korea by an unknown hacker or a group. South Korea was hit by a cyber attack on its nuclear power plan...

Rogue software update cause Malware attack on Japanese Nuclear Power Plant

The most critical and worst target of a State-sponsored cyber-attacks could be Hospitals, Dams, Dykes and Nuclear power stations and this may cause military conflicts between countries. According to Japan Today, The Monju nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan was accidentally targeted by a malwar...

Super 'Stuxnet' Malware development in progress to destroy Iran's nuclear program

Saudi Arabia and Israel's Mossad intelligence division are reportedly collaborating to develop a computer worm more destructive than the Stuxnet malware to spy on and destroy the software structure of Iran's nuclear program. The Iranian Fars news agency has reported: "Saudi spy chief Prince Banda...

Stuxnet also infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant

We have a lot of information on Stuxnet virus, a powerful malware that for the first time has shown to governments the capabilities and efficiency of a cyber weapon. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kasperky security firm revealed that Stuxnet had badly infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear...

Stuxnet also infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant

We have a lot of information on Stuxnet virus, a powerful malware that for the first time has shown to governments the capabilities and efficiency of a cyber weapon. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kasperky security firm revealed that Stuxnet had badly infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear...

Stuxnet 0.5 : Symantec study reveals Stuxnet was dated 2005

Today social media are spreading a shocking news, authors of Stuxnet virus that hit Iranian nuclear program in 2010 according a new research proposed by Symantec security company started in 2005 and contrary to successive instance of the malware he was designed to manipulate the nuclear facility'...

Wired Unpacks Stuxnet Mystery

You might think that everything that needs to be written on Stuxnet already has. After all, Threatpost has spilled virtual column inches on the stealthy worm, which targeted Siemens Simatic S7 programmable logic controllers. That’s in addition to posts by the likes of Symantec, McAfee and the...

U.S. federal lab linked to Stuxnet breached !

A federally funded U.S. lab that is suspected to have been involved in finding the vulnerabilities in Siemens SCADA systems used by the Stuxnet worm has shut down the Internet connection for its employees following the discovery of a breach into the facility's systems. The Oak Ridge National...