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Pulchritudinous women with glossy long hair are targeting Israeli officials via Facebook – but why? Scammers have found a new way to gain access to your most sensitive information – but how? And armchair detectives are helping investigating cold cases… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #270: Bearded Barbie, EDR scams, and hobbyist crime detectives
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A Middle Eastern hacking group supposedly connected to Hamas uses malware to steal sensitive data from Windows and…
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A hacking group is targeting Palestinian people and organizations with a wave of years-old malware, according to research published Wednesday. The findings, from Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence division, unpack a surge of attacks starting around October 2021 targeting Palestinians using malware known as Micropsia. The attacks are part of a broader campaign dating back to 2017 connected to a group known as Arid Viper, an Arabic hacking group possibly associated with Hamas that first emerged in 2015. Also known as Desert Falcons or APT-C-23, — “APT” stands for “advanced persistent threat,” a kind of group often associated with nation-state hackers —Kaspersky researchers in 2015 named it the “first exclusively Arabic APT group.” Kaspersky estimated at the time that it numbered 30 or so attackers who employed homemade malware, social engineering and other techniques against targets all over the world. The group’s main motivation is espionage and information theft, Talos noted in […]
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Facebook on Wednesday detailed steps it took to counter two groups of alleged Palestinian hackers, one with suspected ties to the Palestinian state and another reportedly linked to the Hamas militant group. The hackers linked to Preventive Security Service (PSS), the Palestinian Authority’s internal intelligence organization, targeted victims primarily in the Palestinian territories and Syria, Facebook said. To a lesser degree, they targeted Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Libya. Those attackers went after groups and individuals seemingly viewed as a threat to the Fatah-led government, including journalists, dissidents and human rights activists. They also also aimed at military organizations such as the Syrian opposition and Iraqi military, Facebook said. The alleged Hamas-linked hackers, dubbed Arid Viper, by contrast, targeted victims associated with the Palestinian Authority, government organizations and backers of the Fatah-led government, Facebook said. Facebook periodically conducts takedowns of hacking-related activity, most recently related to a campaign that targeted Uighurs […]
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In October 2020, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how a web of sites connected to conspiracy theory movements QAnon and 8chan were being kept online by DDoS-Guard, a dodgy Russian firm that also hosts the official site for the terrorist group Hamas. New research shows DDoS-Guard relies on data centers provided by a U.S.-based publicly traded company, which experts say could be exposed to civil and criminal liabilities as a result of DDoS-Guard’s business with Hamas. Continue reading Hamas May Be Threat to 8chan, QAnon Online
A hacking group that typically spies on targets in the Middle East has updated its malware and is distributing it through bogus versions of popular messaging apps such as Telegram, researchers say. The malware has been circulating since May 2019, according to Slovakia-based antivirus company ESET, which identified it in collaboration with researchers at MalwareHunterTeam. ESET does not speculate about the intentions of the group, known as APT-C-23 or Two-tailed Scorpion, but in 2017 and 2018, other researchers linked it to the Palestinian organization Hamas. In most cases, victims are infected by visiting a fake app store, “DigitalApps,” containing both clean and malicious software, ESET said in findings published Wednesday. The malware was hidden in apps posing as Telegram, another messaging platform, Threema, and a utility labeled as AndroidUpdate. Users who downloaded the two messaging apps had the apps’ full functionality, but also were infected with malware, ESET says. By impersonating an encrypted […]
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Recently the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) sent a warning to all concerned about the efforts of Hamas to identify, contact, engage, socially engineer and then compromise IDF personnel. Surprise of surprises: Hamas had created a half-dozen personas, all … Continue reading Women of Hamas and Their Social Engineering Skills
The third catfish attempt in three years from the Palestinian militant group adds a few technical advances to the mix. Continue reading Hamas Ensnares Israeli Soldiers with Pretty ‘Ladies’
Dozens of Israeli soldiers were tricked by Hamas into installing malware on their phones and computers via an old ruse: messages from young women looking for companionship. Investing in security solutions is always a good idea, but what’s the poi… Continue reading Hamas Tries to Trick Israeli Soldiers into Installing Malware Using Fake Messages from Women
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The hackers posed as women to send out malware and receive crucial information about the device as well as controlling key functions of the phone.
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