Bristol Airport blames hackers for three day technical meltdown

A cyber attack was the cause behind a three day technical meltdown, according to Bristol Airport. The airport’s information screens were out of service on both Friday and Saturday, with holidaymakers having to read departure times off whiteboards scattered around Read More …

Crooks Combine Phishing and Impersonation For Higher Success Rate

While phishing continues to be the prevalent threat in malware-less email-based attacks, cybercriminals refine their methods by adding an impersonation component to increase the success rate against company employees. Phishing emails are easy to deploy and do not require other Read More …

U.S. Ties Lazarus to North Korea and Major Hacking Conspiracy

The DoJ said a DPRK spy, Park Jin-hyok, was involved in “a conspiracy to conduct multiple destructive cyberattacks around the world.” The Justice Department has charged a North Korean man in the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in 2014 Read More …

Recent Windows ALPC zero-day has been exploited in the wild for almost a week

Two days after a security researcher released details and proof-of-concept code about an unpatched Windows zero-day, one malware group had already incorporated the vulnerability in their exploit chain and was attempting to infect users around the globe. The zero-day used Read More …

OilRig Sends an OopsIE to Mideast Government Targets

The Iran-linked group is using a variant of the data-exfiltration OopsIE trojan to attack a Mideast government entity. The OilRig group is back, using a reboot of the OopsIE trojan to pump information from its favorite resource: entities in the Read More …

New Silence hacking group suspected of having ties to cyber-security industry

At least one member of a newly uncovered cybercrime hacking group appears to be a former or current employee of a cyber-security company, according to a new report released today. The report, published by Moscow-based cyber-security firm Group-IB, breaks down the Read More …

Cyber security threat to Britain’s oil and gas sites as attack could cause ‘unprecedented damage’

Brian Lord OBE says a successful attack on its infrastructure could cause “unprecedented damage” and “unrest across the world”. With a complex ecosystem of computation, networking, and physical operational processes spread around the world the industry has a large attack Read More …