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Israeli Spies Hacked Kaspersky and Found Russian Hackers Exploiting the Antivirus software to Obtain US Intelligence Secrets. We earlier reported that Russian state-sponsored spies and Moscow-based cybersecurity and software developer firm Kaspersky Lab were secretly cooperating with each other as the company’s antivirus software was used by Russian hackers to steal NSA exploits after compromising […]
IT security researchers at FireEye have discovered a malware that aims to steal sensitive information from critical cyber infrastructure including Aerospace, Defense Contractors, and Manufacturing sectors in South Korea and the United States. Dubbed FormBook, the data stealer malware is distributed using different methods which steal clipboard contents, log keystrokes and extract data from HTTP sessions. According to […]
North Korean State-Sponsored Hackers Attacked Four Virtual Currency Exchanges in Seoul- Report Reveals. North Korea is being held responsible for conducting cyber-attacks against South Korean virtual currency exchanges. According to a report from Yonhap news agency, police carried out a comprehensive investigation and concluded that North Korea is directly responsible for cyber attacks on dozens […]
The IT Security firm Symantec revealed on Wednesday that hackers have targeted energy companies in the US and across Europe in their latest hack attacks resulting in attaining hands-on access to power grid functions. They have now acquired enough control that they can easily shut down and cause a widespread outage in the US whenever […]
From IoT to IIoT everything seems vulnerable. A Seattle based cyber security firm IOActive has been researching upon robot related vulnerabilities of late, and a few months back they published a report providing a detailed description of this issue. They have been analyzing robots used in industries and businesses, and their subjects happen to be […]
It’s no surprise that ships can be hacked but did someone hack USS John S. McCain on Monday when it collided with an oil tanker near Singapore? Adm. John Richardson thinks so since he has ordered an in-depth investigation into the incident to determine the reason behind the mishap. In a Tweet, Richardson said that right now there is no indication that […]
An unknown hacking group has been targeting organizations in North Korea with Konni Malware. It is a RAT/remote access Trojan having all those features that any effective backdoor might have such as host profiling and remote access control. In 2017, already three different campaigns were identified by security experts against North Korean companies using this […]
Nothing is surprising about Indians hacking Pakistani websites or vice versa since militaries of both countries are fighting against each other for decades. But another war is being fought between hackers from both sides over the Internet. Earlier today, an Indian hacker going by the online handle of Ne0-H4ck3r hacked and defaced the official government portal of […]
Kaspersky Labs, the Russian cyber security software manufacturer, has been banned in the United States from developing software due to its alleged ties with Kremlin and its intelligence agency FSB. A couple of weeks ago it was reported that U.S’ Senate Armed Services Committee wants a ban on Kaspersky’s products so that the U.S Defense Department cannot use […]
The IT security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new malware targeting oil and gas companies in the Middle East and also aiming towards targets in Europe. Dubbed StoneDrill by researchers, the malware can evade antivirus detection and destroy everything on an infected device. Kaspersky Labs discovered that StoneDrill is being used in attacks […]
Lotte Group is a multinational corporation having footprints across Asia, Europe and North America. It has headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Apart from Japan, China is its second major market. Lotte Group started its business operations in China in 1994, and since then it has earned an excellent reputation and following from the Chinese consumers. […]
The never ending cyber war between Iran and Saudi Arabia has reached a new height – Same goes for the use of Shamoon malware from Iran against the Kingdom. The renewed attacks have come after a four-year sabbatical with what seems like a newer, improved strain of the Shamoon malware virus. The Saudi government had issued a […]
Israeli members of the armed forces have remained under the radar of cyber spies and espionage actors for a very long time. However, In July last year, over a hundred officials were targeted by malicious cyber-criminals as they managed to compromise their cell phones/tablets and infiltrated data and transferred it to the command and control […]
An Israeli court has sentenced Majid Oweida, a 23-year old from Gaza City to 9 years in prison on charges of hacking into Israeli drones. According to the prosecutors, the Palestinian computer engineer was spying on Israel for a terror group. Oweida was detained in February 2016 while he was indicted on charges of having a […]
The dreaded Shamoon malware is back to haunt Saudi Arabia; therefore, the government has wasted no time in issuing a warning alert to a number of organizations. This time Shamoon’s new variant Shamoon 2 has been identified to be circulating and affecting Saudi organizations, according to CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity technology company. Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike VP, […]
The IDF and Israeli Security Agency Shin Bet have jointly conducted an operation called “Operation Hunter’s Network” against the Hamas network after the officials got a hint of a new campaign from Gaza-based Hamas hackers. In this new campaign, hackers posted seductive pictures of young, beautiful Israeli women on social media to attract IDF soldiers […]
The threats for law firms which offer legal advice on mergers have evolved from worrying about deal tips getting leaked to the hacking of deal tips. Nowadays, companies and organizations are much more worried about hacking attacks than employees giving away deal tips. This assumption was proven to be true when several US-based law firms […]
A group of Pakistani hackers going by the online handle of Team Pak Cyber Attackers hacked and defaced the official Google Bangladesh domain Tuesday morning. The group left a deface page along with a message on the targeted domain taunting security measures implemented by Google. The Internet users in Bangladesh were shocked when they witnessed their search […]
Looks like hackers are hell bent on giving Ukrainians a glimpse of stone age by keep on targeting country’s power sector. In the latest, Ukraine’s national energy company has become a victim of what could be a massive cyber attack. Ukrenergo, the national energy company, experienced power failure this Saturday. In a post on Facebook, […]
In a blog post by CloudFlare, it has been revealed that the US West Coast is likely to become the target of yet another huge DDoS attack but this time it will be conducted with a different botnet than Mirai that was using during Dyn DNS attack which forced sites like Twitter, Amazon, PayPal etc […]
Saudi officials are blaming Iranian government for conducting a sophisticated malware attack on computer networks across Saudi Arabia over the past two weeks causing damages to Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the country’s central bank. Also Read: Iran’s Key Petrochemical Complexes Attacked by Malicious Malware The investigations are currently underway to discover further details about the intensity […]