Data exfiltration

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2014
Operation Cleaver – Iranian hackers target industries worldwide

Security firm Cylance revealed that Iranian hackers target airlines, energy, defense companies worldwide as part of the Operation Cleaver campaign. Security firm Cylance released a detailed report on the hacking Operation Cleaver that was run by state-sponsored hackers linked to the Iran. The Iranian hackers targeted critical infrastructure worldwide, ten of which are located in the United States. Experts at Cylance are cautions […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2014
Hackers used data exfiltration based on video steganography

Security experts have detected an attack against a major firm that used a data exfiltration technique based on the video steganography. Threats actors in the wild are exfiltrating data with a technique based on video uploaded to cloud services. Attackers adopted this trick to move data from a compromised target outside without detection by conventional solutions, such as intrusion detection/prevention systems. […]