Cyber Attack in Iran Reportedly Cripples Gas Stations Across the Country

A cyber attack in Iran left petrol stations across the country crippled, disrupting fuel sales and defacing electronic billboards to display messages challenging the regime's ability to distribute gasoline. Posts and videos circulated on social media showed messages that said, "Khamenei! Where is...

Lazarus Targets Defense Companies with ThreatNeedle Malware

The prolific North Korean APT known as Lazarus is behind a spear-phishing campaign aimed at stealing critical data from defense companies by leveraging an advanced malware called ThreatNeedle, new research has revealed. The elaborate and ongoing cyberespionage campaign used emails with COVID-19...

2020 Shows the Danger of a Decapitated Cyber Regime

Trump's White House has long been AWOL on cybersecurity. That lack of oversight almost seemed to be working—until the SolarWinds hack...

Riding another wave of success for our multi-layered detection and response approach

The corporate endpoint is a constant battle between cybersecurity white hats and criminal attackers. According to one study from the Ponemon Institute, 68% of organizations were victims of an attack on the endpoint in 2019. The risks and costs associated with undetected threats are immeasurable...

CVE-2019-20044

A flaw was found in zsh. When unsetting the PRIVILEGED option, the shell sets its effective user and group IDs to match their respective real IDs. When the RUID and EUID were both non-zero, it is possible to regain the shell's former privileges. Also, the setopt built-in did not correctly report...

Apple's Good Intentions on Privacy Stop at China's Borders

As pro-democracy protests continue in Hong Kong, the tech giant’s troubling relationship with an authoritarian regime has come into focus...

APT38: Details on New North Korean Regime-Backed Threat Group

Today, we are releasing details on the threat group that we believe is responsible for conducting financial crime on behalf of the North Korean regime, stealing millions of dollars from banks worldwide. The group is particularly aggressive; they regularly use destructive malware to render victim...

Egyptian 'Fake News' Law Threatens Citizens with 5000-plus Followers

Do you or someone you know lives in Egypt and holds an account on Facebook, Twitter, or/and other social media platforms with more than 5000 followers? If yes, your account can be censored, suspended and is subject to prosecution for promoting or spreading the fake news through social media...

GreyKey iPhone Unlocker

Some details about the iPhone unlocker from the US company Greyshift, with photos. Little is known about Grayshift or its sales model at this point. We don't know whether sales are limited to US law enforcement, or if it is also selling in other parts of the world. Regardless of that, it's highly...

Tainted Leaks

Last year, I wrote about the potential for doxers to alter documents before they leaked them. It was a theoretical threat when I wrote it, but now Citizen Lab has documented this technique in the wild: This report describes an extensive Russia-linked phishing and disinformation campaign. It...

Syria suffers nationwide communications outage

The Syrian situation is getting worse day by day, the regime is attacking dissident mercilessly meanwhile the world wide community is standing by and watch helplessly stopped by prohibition of military intervention imposed by Russia and China, historical allies of Damascus. Syria regime is fierce...

BASTARDS!!

Last month, those assholes in the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to more aggressively crack down on criticism of the State of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as "anti-Semitism." The anti-democratic resolution is the latest step...

Saudi Aramco Oil Producer's 30,000 workstations victim of Cyber Attack

Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. Immediately after the Aug. 15 attack, the company announced it had cut off its electronic systems from outside access to...

Anonymous Hackers target F1 website in Bahrain GP protest

Anonymous Hackers target F1 website in Bahrain GP protest Anonymous a collective who have hacked or taken down websites for social comment purposes, have turned their attention to the official Formula 1 website Formula1.com, taking it offline on Friday. The group also attacked F1-racers.net where...

BBC Persia Hacked, Points Finger at Iran

The BBC reports that they were the victim of a “sophisticated cyber-attack,” which they believe is part of an ongoing Iranian campaign to disrupt the BBC Persian Service. The attack reportedly coincides with attempts to jam of the BBC’s satellite feeds into the Islamic republic. “We regard the...

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous The Facebook page of Hizb Ettahrir, an Islamist political party that is legally unrecognized in Tunisia, was hacked last night by a Tunisian group claiming affiliation with the international cyber activist collective Anonymous. "We are fighting you...

Report: Obama Administration Considered Libyan Cyber-Offensive

The Obama Administration reportedly debated kicking off its latest war-effort in Libya with a cyber-offensive targeting the Qaddafi regime’s air-defense infrastructure, according to a report from the New York Times. The details of the Obama Administration’s plan remain classified, but the Times...

Pro-Syrian 'Electronic Army' Hacks Harvard University Site

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army SEA vandalized Harvard University’s website Monday morning, presenting visitors to the Ivy League university’s homepage with an image of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad dressed posed in front of the nation’s flag in full army regalia. The image was...

#Opiran new press release for 23 September by Anonymous Hackers

Opiran new press release for 23 September byAnonymous Hackers Salutation To the Noble and Brave People of Iran and Syria, Acknowledge plight The people of Iran and Syria are still being caged, tortured and murdered. They are ruled by vile leaders, who seek not to protect, but to harm. Leaders who...

#Opiran new press release for 23 September by Anonymous Hackers

Opiran new press release for 23 September by Anonymous Hackers Salutation To the Noble and Brave People of Iran and Syria, Acknowledge plight The people of Iran and Syria are still being caged, tortured and murdered. They are ruled by vile leaders, who seek not to protect, but to harm. Leaders wh...