Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group's Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool

Researchers from China's Pangu Lab have disclosed details of a "top-tier" backdoor put to use by the Equation Group, an advanced persistent threat APT with alleged ties to the cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the U.S. National Security Agency NSA. Dubbed "Bvp47" owing to numerous...

Microsoft Exchange 2003 base64-MIME Remote Code Execution

Python 2.7 included with ImmunityDBG Exchange 2003 SP0 base64-MIME memory corruption NSA's ENGLISHMANSDENTIST Platform: Windows Server 2003 R2 Shout out to the Equation Group, NSA Tailored Access Operations Author: Charles Truscott @r0ss1n1 Shout out to Offensive Security, from Australia with Lov...

Microsoft Exchange 2003 - base64-MIME Remote Code Execution

Microsoft Exchange 2003 - base64-MIME Remote Code Execution Python 2.7 included with ImmunityDBG Exchange 2003 SP0 base64-MIME memory corruption NSA's ENGLISHMANSDENTIST Platform: Windows Server 2003 R2 Shout out to the Equation Group, NSA Tailored Access Operations Author: Charles Truscott...

Microsoft Exchange 2003 - base64-MIME Remote Code Execution Exploit

Python 2.7 included with ImmunityDBG Exchange 2003 SP0 base64-MIME memory corruption NSA's ENGLISHMANSDENTIST Platform: Windows Server 2003 R2 Shout out to the Equation Group, NSA Tailored Access Operations Author: Charles Truscott @r0ss1n1 Shout out to Offensive Security, from Australia with Lov...

Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by Russian hackers. Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland—who work...

Former NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Taking Classified Data

A former employee for the National Security Agency pleaded guilty on Friday to taking classified data to his home computer in Maryland. According to published reports, U.S. intelligence officials believe the data was then stolen from his computer by hackers working for the Russian government. Ngh...

NSA Accidentally Took Down Syria's Internet While Infiltrating Central Router System

Before proceeding towards the story, let’s first go back two years to figure out what was wrong when Syria was completely blackout - sudden disconnect from the Internet - which lasted for the period of three days in 2012. Is that the Syrian government behind the blackout ? The outage took place...

Unencrypted Windows Error Reporting Crash Reports a Treasure

One of the revelations from latest Snowden document leaks described how the U.S. National Security Agency was able to intercept Microsoft Windows Error Reporting logs in order to fingerprint machines for potential compromise. The German publication Der Spiegel says the documents indicated the NSA...

NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks with Malware

The NSA has the ability to trace "anyone, anywhere, anytime". In September we reported that how NSA and GCHQ planted malware via LinkedIn and Slashdot traffic to hack largest telecom company Belgacom's Engineers. Yesterday, a Dutch newspaper has published a new secret NSA document provided by...