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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 references to the string “Bvp” and the numerical value “0x47” used […]
SECURITY RESEARCHERS have uncovered Industroyer and have labelled it as the biggest threat to critical infrastructure since Stuxnet. Stuxnet was the malicious warm responsible for causing substantial damage to Iran’s nuclear programme more than seven years ago. This new piece of malware, analysed by researchers at security company ESET, is capable of performing an attack like that in […]
Code-execution flaw is triggered by plugging a booby-trapped USB into vulnerable PCs. One of the Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities used to spread the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran remained the most widely exploited software bug in 2015 and 2016 even though the bug was patched years earlier, according to a report published by antivirus provider Kaspersky […]
Short Bytes: Alex Gibney is known for his investigative documentaries that garner a unanimous applause from the critics. During the reporting for his latest cyber warfare-focused film Zero Days, the US government’s secret plan called Nitro Zeus was uncovered. This plan deals with a massive cyberattack on Iran’s infrastructure if the nuclear negotiations with Iran would have fail. […]