Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability "CVE-2014-4114" Used to Hack NATO

Once again a Russian cyber espionage group has gained media attention by exploiting a Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO, Ukrainian and Polish government agencies, and a variety of sensitive European industries over...

Harkonnen Operation — Malware Campaign that Went Undetected for 12 Years

A huge data-stealing cyber espionage campaign that targeted Banks, Corporations and Governments in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria for 12 years, has finally come for probably the longest-lived online malware operation in history. The campaign is dubbed as 'Harkonnen Operation' and involved more...

Chinese Groups Found Targeting Govt, Military Systems

Two Chinese cyber espionage campaigns are working in tandem in hopes of sniffing out trade secrets from surrounding nations. Researchers from FireEye outlined information about the two attack groups yesterday in advance of a more comprehensive report. One of the groups, Moafree, operates out of t...

Study: Uyghur Remain in Crosshairs of Targeted Attacks

It’s no secret that activists groups supporting the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities living either in exile or in oppressed nations have been in the crosshairs of targeted attacks for years. Regimes use phishing emails, other social engineering tactics, and drive-by downloads to infect computer...

Epic Operation Kicks Off Multistage Turla APT Campaign

The Turla APT campaign has baffled researchers for months as to how its victims are compromised. Peaking during the first two months of the year, Turla has targeted municipal governments, embassies, militaries and other high-value targets worldwide, with particular concentrations in the Middle Ea...

Targeted String of Paerls Campaign Includes Word Macro Attack

A targeted malware campaign has been uncovered that combines an old-school Microsoft Word Macro malware attack with a decidedly new school approach of redirecting victims to exploits stored on Dropbox. The String of Paerls attacks, which Cisco’s VRT team reported today, targets industries such as...

Google Patches Gmail Token Vulnerability

Google has patched a vulnerability that exposes an indefinite number of Gmail addresses, a potential gold mine for phishing and advanced attacks. Researcher Oren Hafif of Israel disclosed details on how he was able to abuse a token exposed in a URL in order to reveal every Gmail address. His work...

Iranian Campaign Snooped on U.S. and Israeli Officials

Iranian spies have carried out an intelligence gathering campaign since at least 2011 by targeting U.S. military, diplomats, D.C. journalists, and government emissaries, just to name a few, a via social media. According to iSIGHT Partners, a cyber threat intelligence firm, attackers have long bee...

SEES (Social Enginnering Email Sender) - A Social Engineering Attack/Audit Tool for Spear Phishing

What is SEES? Most of the companies nowadays have their firewalls, threat monitoring and prevention security appliances setup. With these mechanisms in place, security precautions are taken and incidents are monitored. Inbound traffic being restricted, SEES on the other hand is developed for...

Malaysian flight MH370 tragedy abused by Chinese hackers for Espionage attacks

The Mysterious Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft that has gone missing by the time it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The Malaysian Prime Minister had also confirmed that the Malaysia Airlines plane had crashed in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean. Cyber...

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 spear phishing emails spotted

Hold off on the notion that watering hole attacks may supplant phishing as the initial means of compromise in advanced attacks. A number of recent targeted campaigns have used the crash of Malaysia Airlines 370 as a lure to infect government officials in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. FireEye today...

Windows Spy tool equipped with Android malware to hack Smartphones

I am quite sure that you must be syncing your Smartphone with your Computers for transferring files and taking backup of your device. If you are using windows operating system and Android devices, then it’s a bad news for you, because FireEye Security Researchers have identified a new piece of...

The Mask Malware: A 7-Year Cyber Espionage Campaign Unmasked

A sophisticated cyber spying operation, The Mask , that has been under the radar for about 7 years and targeted approximately 31 countries, has now been unmasked by researchers at Kaspersky Labs. Researchers believe the campaign has been active since 2007 and is a highly sophisticated nation-stat...

New APT Campaign Dubbed The Mask Called Most Sophisticated Seen to Date

PUNTA CANA–A group of high-level, nation-state attackers has been targeting government agencies, embassies, diplomatic offices and energy companies with a cyber-espionage campaign for more than five years that researchers say is the most sophisticated APT operation they’ve seen to date. The attac...

Using USB Modems to Phish and Send Malicious SMS Messages

Some USB modems can be leveraged to send malicious SMS messages and even carry out spear-phishing attacks – sometimes in conjunction with each other – thanks to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability present in the device’s web interfaces. According to Swedish security researcher Andreas Lind...

XtremeRAT Malware Used in Targeted Attacks Against Israel

Espionage malware used in attacks against Israel, as well as Syrian activists, in the last 18 months has been linked to a new attack against Israel’s Civil Administration, the country’s governing body in the West Bank. Researchers at Seculert reported today that samples of XtremeRAT, a...

Israeli Defense computer hacked in Spear Phishing Attack

Hackers broke into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software. Reuters reported Israeli Defense is the latest illustrious victim of the Spear Phishing Attack, and hackers penetrated into an Israeli defense ministry computer using a malicious email...

UK CPNI Releases Spear Phishing Paper

The United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure CPNI has recently released a paper titled "Spear Phishing - Understanding the Threat;" this document provides guidance on how spear phishing attacks work, whether you are likely to be a target, and the steps organizations c...

China APT Hackers Target Diplomats in Ke3chang Campaign

European diplomats and ministries of foreign affairs have been targeted during recent G20 meetings by Chinese-speaking hackers conducting espionage campaigns using malware to siphon secrets from compromised computers. The latest incidents came in August when spear phishing messages spiked with...

Hacking Gmail accounts with password reset system vulnerability

Oren Hafif, a security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in the Password reset process of Google account that allows an attacker to hijack any account. He managed to trick Google users into handing over their passwords via a simple spear-phishing attack by leveraging a number of...