Collaborate Disseminate
A new week, a new crop of security stories. Last week, malware complacency, Russian cyberspies, GDPR compliance and Mirai IoT malware made the headlines. In addition, we analyzed top security threats for web apps. Be sure to check Security Boulevard d… Continue reading Security Boulevard’s 5 Most Read Stories for the Week, August 20-24
Researchers have found a malware program based on Mirai that has binaries for many platforms and CPU architectures, allowing it to run even on Linux servers or Android phones. The difficulty of compiling malware that works out of the box on the large … Continue reading Mirai IoT Malware Variant Abuses Linux Cross-Compilation Framework
The United States Department of Justice has announced criminal charges and sanctions against 9 Iranians involved in hacking universities, tech companies, and government organisations worldwide to steal scientific research resources and academic papers…. Continue reading U.S. Charges 9 Iranians With Hacking Universities to Steal Research Data
Security researchers have recently uncovered a cyber espionage group targeting aerospace, defence and energy organisations in the United States, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.
According to the latest research published Wednesday by US security firm Fir… Continue reading APT33: Researchers Expose Iranian Hacking Group Linked to Destructive Malware
Security researchers have discovered a new, massive cyber espionage campaign that mainly targets people working in government, defence and academic organisations in various countries.
The campaign is being conducted by an Iran-linked threat group, who… Continue reading Experts Unveil Cyber Espionage Attacks by CopyKittens Hackers
A new disk wiping malware has been uncovered targeting a petroleum company in Europe, which is quite similar to the mysterious disk wiper malware Shamoon that wiped data from 35,000 computers at Saudi Arabia’s national oil company in 2012.
Disk wiping… Continue reading StoneDrill Disk Wiping Malware Found Targeting European Industries
So there’s been a lot of news lately about the Telegram hack and how 15 million accounts were compromised, which is not technically true. There’s 2 vectors of attack at play here, both of which regard Iranian users, but are not connected (other than the attackers probably being the same group). So the two attacks […]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has lengthened its Most Wanted List by adding seven Iranian hackers who are accused of attacking a range of US banks and a New York dam.
On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) charged sev… Continue reading The 7 Most Wanted Iranian Hackers By the FBI
Iran is just the latest country to be pointed at in the US’ new approach to dealing with nation state hackers. Continue reading US Charges Iranians With Coordinated Cyber Attacks on Banks, Companies