“Hackers around the world are plotting to strike Israel’s online presence in a coordinated cyber-attack later this week. The effort, known as ‘OpIsrael,’ which is being organized by hacktivist group Anonymous, aims to target the 100 largest websites in the country, especially those of banks, credit card companies, and communications firms. The attack is scheduled [...]
“MI5 has taken the unusual step of issuing a public warning after fraudsters pretending to be the service’s head attempted to obtain money from people.” Source: MI5 warning over financial scam – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
“The assailants responsible for the cyber attacks used at least two mobile application development sites as watering holes in addition to the one web site that has been disclosed: iPhoneDevSDK.com. Still other watering hole web sites used in the attack weren’t specific to mobile application developers – or even to software development. Still, they served [...]
“Cyberwarriors in Tunisia and China have reportedly joined forces with al-Qaeda hackers in order to attack United States government websites. Hackers pledging allegiance to the Tunisian Cyber Army claim to have compromised the security of US State Department and Department of Defense websites as part of an anti-America campaign called Operation Black Summer, or #OpBlackSummer. [...]
“Cyberspace, American leaders have not fully realized, is not like other national security issues. America’s true cyber power is not the National Security Agency or Cyber Command, but our technology companies that create and maintain cyberspace and the factories, banks, small businesses, artists, and citizens that use it to enrich our commerce and culture and [...]
“Very little that China does escapes the notice of the NSA, and virtually every technique it uses has been tracked and reverse-engineered. For years, and in secret, the NSA has also used the cover of some American companies — with their permission — to poke and prod at the hackers, leading them to respond in [...]
“Zeus malware is considered the most popular and prolific malicious code for banking, it is one of the privilege agent by cybercrime the use to sell various customized version in the underground to conduct sophisticated frauds.” Source: Zeus hit five major banks in Japan | Security Affairs
“Some 55 per cent of Chinese computers are infected with malware, the highest of any country worldwide, according to the latest Annual Security Report from Panda Security. The Spanish security vendor’s Panda Labs research team reported 27 million new strains of malware in 2012, bringing the total in its database to 125m.” Source:China is world’s [...]
“A botnet that was believed to be illegally raking in more than $1m (£640,000) a year, has been shut down by security experts. Teams working with Microsoft and anti-virus specialists Symantec raided several data centres in the US.” Source:BBC News – ‘$1m-a-year’ botnet shut down by Microsoft and Symantec
” Iran says it has decoded and released footage from a U.S. drone that it downed more than a year ago. The black and white aerial footage, Iran claims was from a RQ-170 spy plane, was aired by Iranian news agencies and placed on YouTube.” Source:Iran claims released footage is from downed U.S. drone – [...]
