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Kane Gamble, the founding member of Crackas with Attitude (CWA)
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We have reported time and again about the widespread malware
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A hacking group which analysts believe is linked to Hamas successfully placed highly targeted surveillanceware in the Google Play Store in order to spy on Palestinian targets, according to new research from the mobile security firm Lookout. The newly identified malware, known as Desert Scorpion, was deployed against over 100 individuals of interest in Palestine. A similar 2017 campaign from the same “highly active” group, dubbed APT-C-23. The group has been linked to Hamas’s political rivals as well as government employees, security services and university students. Desert Scorpion has been tied to a 2017 campaign, known as Frozen Cell, by reuse of the same social media profiles to promote the malware as well as infrastructure using similar IP blocks. APT-C-23 has been active since at least 2015 when U.S. cybersecurity firms Palo Alto Networks and ThreatConnect identified a campaign by the group targeting the United States, Israel, Palestinian Territories and Egypt. The malware allows its users to steal data from […]
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The official YouTube account of Vevo video hosting giant has
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Website defacement is increasingly becoming a staple in the toolkit of activists looking to bring attention to their causes online, according to a report from cybersecurity company Trend Micro. This sort of hacktivism has experts worried that the types of hackers behind these seemingly benign attacks will eventually turn to more threatening cybercrime. Website defacement is a form of protest by which hackers take over a domain and replace the usual website with propaganda promoting a particular cause. It’s a protest sign that blocks access to a website that the hackers in most cases see as an enemy to their cause. The Trend Micro report highlights seven geopolitical events and conflicts that have been a major motivator for defacement incidents. They include: Israeli military operations and land occupations in Palestinian territories French magazine Charlie Hebdo publishing a controversial cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad in 2o15 border disputes between India and Pakistan Syrian airstrikes […]
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The state of Israel is one of the places whose cyberinfrastructure
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A “highly active” group of hackers, which some analysts believe may be linked to Hamas, are spying on Palestinian government employees, security services, university students and Fatah party politicians by infecting smartphones with malware, according to research conducted by mobile security firm Lookout. The espionage campaign is part of a broader effort by the hacker group, previously dubbed “Two-tailed Scorpion” by security researchers, to remotely collect information about Palestinians related in some way to the political process, including those individuals who may discuss, share or otherwise receive sensitive material on their mobile phones. Fatah and Hamas represent the two largest political parties of the State of Palestine, a contested territory that spans two separate areas, the West Bank and Gaza Strip — bordering on Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The two political organizations continuously clash with one another to control the state. Between 2006 and 2007, their rivalry led to an armed conflict […]
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Researchers at an Israeli cyber security firm Intezer have discovered a
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A new malware campaign dubbed Kasperagent was deployed during recent Palestinian Authority elections, according to a report from ThreatConnect. The perpetrator and exact targets remain unclear. Tactics included malware-laced fake news websites and spearphishing messages with content on political tensions and alleged Israeli assassination in Gaza as well as attack infrastructure with Gaza registrants. “We don’t know for sure who is responsible for this campaign,” the researchers wrote, “but digging into the passive DNS results led us to some breadcrumbs” from the command and control infrastructure running the operation. Discovered in 2016 by Palo Alto Networks, Kasperagent aims at Microsoft Windows systems and has been used on targets in the United States, Israel, Palestinian Territories and Egypt. This latest campaign represents a new variant of the malware that’s been used across the Middle East. The new campaign coincides with and exploits rising political tension in Gaza and the West Bank during the run-up to […]
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Two main news channels in Israel were hacked and the attackers broadcasted a 30-second clip showing images of Muslim holy sites and Quranic scriptures. The timing of this hacking is quite sensitive as the news channels were hacked when the parliament was about to start voting for passing a bill aimed at banning Muslims’ call […]
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