Security experts uncovered a widespread campaign tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper known to be targeting managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Chinese APT10 group is the main suspect. Security experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems have uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper, targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. The experts […]
Security experts at CISCO Talos have spotted a new insidious remote access tool dubbed ROKRAT that implements sophisticated anti-detection measures. The ROKRAT RAT targets Korean users, people using the popular Korean Microsoft Word alternative Hangul Word Processor (HWP). In the past, we saw other attacks against people using the HWP application. The ROKRAT RAT was used […]
Experts at Kaspersky presented the findings of its research that definitively connect the Moonlight Maze cyber espionage campaigns to the Turla APT group. One year ago, the researcher Thomas Rid at the Security Analyst Summit disclosed the alleged links between the Moonlight Maze cyber espionage operation of mid 1990s and the Turla APT. Today at […]
WikiLeaks has published the third batch of documents dubbed Marble that revealed the CIA anti-forensics tool dubbed Marble framework. WikiLeaks released the third batch of the CIA Vault7Â archive that shed light the anti-forensics tools used by the intelligence Agency, The first tranche of CIA documents from Vault7 was related to hacking tools and techniques, while […]
The Russian group Turla has continued to improve its Carbon backdoor, experts from ESET detected new versions released on a regular basis. The Russian APT group known as Turla (also known as Waterbug, KRYPTON and Venomous Bear) has continued to improve its Carbon backdoor, experts from ESET detected new versions released on a regular basis. Carbon is a […]
Experts at FireEye discovered the APT29 group adopted domain fronting long before these techniques were widely known in the IT security community. Security firm FireEye continues to follow APT29 group (aka The Dukes, Cozy Bear and Cozy Duke), on Monday it revealed that the cyber spies have been using a technique called âdomain frontingâ to make hard […]
British interior minister Amber Rudd believes encryption implemented by messaging services is offering a dangerous opportunity for terrorists to communicate. British interior minister Amber Rudd has a clear opinion on encryption implemented by many messaging services, it is no more acceptable. On Sunday the minister Amber Rudd reaffirmed that technology firms must collaborate with law enforcement agencies […]
According to a German top official, Germany warded off two cyber attacks launched by the Russian state actor APT28 group in 2016. On Friday, a top German official told Reuters that last year Germany warded off two cyber attacks launched by the Russian APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, and Strontium) According to Arne Schoenbohm, president of […]
Security researchers at MalwareBytes have uncovered a spearphishing campaign that targeted Saudi Arabia Government organizations. Security experts at MalwareBytes have spotted a new spear phishing campaign that is targeting Saudi Arabia governmental organizations. According to the experts, the campaign already targeted about a dozen Saudi agencies. Attackers used weaponized Word document and tricked victims into opening them […]
US federal prosecutors speculate the involvement of North Korea in the cyber heist of $81 million from Bangladesh’s account at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal, prosecutors suspect the involvement of Chinese middlemen who helped the Government of Pyongyang to organize the cyber theft. In February 2016, unknown hackers transferred […]