Collaborate Disseminate
The United States Department of Homeland Security and FBI have warned that hackers are actively targeting government departments, and firms working in the energy, nuclear, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.
Read more in my article on … Continue reading US warns of ongoing attacks on energy firms and critical infrastructure
September saw Symantec uncover new activity by the Dragonfly group, and the start of several new Locky spam campaigns.Read More Continue reading Latest Intelligence for September 2017
The notorious hacking group that has been in operation since at least 2011 has re-emerged and is still interested in targeting the United States and European companies in the energy sector.
Yes, I am talking about the ‘Dragonfly,’ a well-resourced, Ea… Continue reading Dragonfly 2.0: Hacking Group Infiltrated European and US Power Facilities
A nation-state caliber hacking group known as Dragonfly is actively and successfully targeting U.S. and European energy companies in a campaign stretching back to 2015, gained unprecedented access to operational systems of Western power companies. Researchers for Symantec who discovered the campaign warn that “the group now potentially has the ability to sabotage or gain control of these systems should it decide to do so.” Dragonfly is an advanced persistent threat group that’s been attributed to Russia. The group is also known as Energetic Bear, Koala and Iron Liberty. The group first came onto the scene in 2010 operated in secrecy until it was spotted in 2014 by the security firms Crowdstrike, FireEye and Symantec. The group’s goal then and now has appeared to be surveillance and access to the oil, gas and energy industry in the U.S., Turkey and Switzerland. The group has spiked its level of hacking activity in 2017. […]
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Resurgence in energy sector attacks, with the potential for sabotage, linked to re-emergence of Dragonfly cyber espionage groupRead More Continue reading Dragonfly: Western energy sector targeted by sophisticated attack group
We’re huge fans of [Neil Stephenson’s] work and are usually looking to assign some of his vision to the gear that pops up in the real world. But there’s no stretching or squinting necessary with this one. [Kerry Scharfglass] has built a functioning Drummer’s Badge from the foundational Sci-Fi novel The Diamond Age.
The badge is called Sympetrum, which is a genus of dragonfly. In explaining what the badge is and does, [Kerry] instructs you to go and read the book first and we couldn’t agree more. This isn’t recommended reading; if you’re a geek you need to read …read more
