APT1-Themed Spear Phishing Campaign Linked to China

Researchers at Seculert have discovered a link between spear phishing campaigns targeting Japanese and Chinese journalists, post-Mandiant’s APT1 report, and domains connected to the Aurora attacks on Google and the Shady RAT campaign. In particular, in the attacks against the Japanese, the malwar...

Chinese malware campaign 'Beebus' target US defense industries

A Chinese malware campaign called 'Beebus' specifically targeting the aerospace and defense industries has been uncovered by FireEye security researchers. Beebus is designed to steal information, and begins its infiltration, as so many attacks do, with spear-phishing emails. Operation Beebus very...

Attacks Targeting US Defense Contractors and Universities Tied to China

UPDATE: Researchers have identified an ongoing series of attacks, possibly emanating from China, that are targeting a number of high-profile organizations, including SCADA security companies, universities and defense contractors. The attacks are using highly customized malicious files to entice...

Rep. Bono Mack Requests More Data on Operation Shady RAT

Rep. Mary Bono Mack, chair of the influential House committee that oversees information security, is asking for more information about the Shady RAT attacks that McAfee publicized last week, saying that the “details of the report are alarming at the least,” and asking that researchers brief membe...

Shady Rat Attackers Hid Code in Digital Images

More information about last week’s “Shady Rat” hacks continues to be uncovered, including reports that the attackers behind the hack used digital images to obscure their activities. Researchers at Symantec analyzing the attacks found images were hiding code that enabled communication back and for...

Report: China Suffered 500K Cyber Attacks Last Year

The Chinese government claims they’ve seen nearly 500,000 cyber attacks designed to hit their computers over the past year, with the U.S. and India among the countries believed to be responsible. A report issued Tuesday by the nation’s chief computer security monitoring network, the National...

Study: Operation Shady Rat Revealed

Global 2000 companies can be split into two categories, according to the author of a new white paper from McAfee PDF; those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t yet know. “The only organizations that are exempt from this threat,” writes the paper’s author, Dmitri Alperovitch,...

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered When the history of 2011 is written, it may well be remembered as the Year of the Hacks. McAfee publish a new report that it says is one of the most comprehensive analysis ever revealed of victim profiles from a five-year long...

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered When the history of 2011 is written, it may well be remembered as the Year of the Hacks. McAfee publish a new report that it says is one of the most comprehensive analysis ever revealed of victim profiles from a five-year long...