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An espionage group is launching cyber attacks against organisations in the maritime and defence sectors in what’s highly likely to be an effort to steal confidential information and research data. Dubbed Leviathan, the group has been active since at least Read More …
State-sponsored cyber espionage has been rising steadily in recent years. Whether it’s high-profile attacks such as North Korea’s hack of Sony in 2014, China’s alleged hack of the US’s Office of Personnel Management in 2015, or Russia’s alleged hack of the Democratic National Committee in 2016, Read More …
FinSpy—the infamous surveillance malware is back and infecting high-profile targets using a new Adobe Flash zero-day exploit delivered through Microsoft Office documents. Security researchers from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Flash, which was being Read More …
VB2017 Intel agencies and top-tier hackers are actively hacking other hackers in order to steal victim data, borrow tools and techniques, and reuse each other’s infrastructure, attendees at Virus Bulletin Con, Madrid, were told yesterday. The increasing amount of spy-vs-spy type Read More …
After disclosing CIA’s strategies to hijack and manipulate webcams and microphones to corrupt or delete recordings, WikiLeaks has now published another Vault 7 leak, revealing CIA’s ability to spy on video streams remotely in real-time. Dubbed ‘CouchPotato,’ document leaked from the CIA details how the CIA Read More …
Attackers behind advanced persistent threat campaigns have kept busy over the past several months, adding new ways to bypass detection, crafting new payloads to drop, and identifying new zero days and backdoors to help them infect users and maintain persistence Read More …
WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing a framework – which is being used by the CIA for monitoring the Internet activity of the targeted systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi devices. Read More …
WikiLeaks has released a new set of documents from its Vault 7 series, this time detailing a tool that the CIA allegedly uses to spread malware on a targeted organization’s network. Appropriately called “Pandemic,” the tool can install a file Read More …
Hackers from Fancy Bear, the espionage hacker group with Russian ties, reportedly snuck false information in the data trove they leaked from the Democratic National Committee during the American elections. According to a report from Citizen Lab, an organization with Read More …
