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Flash zero-day shows up in Qatar amid geopolitical struggles
A zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash was recently used to infect a likely diplomatic target in Qatar with malware, new research from Seattle-based cybersecurity company ICEBRG and Chinese tech firms Qihoo and Tencent shows. Adobe patched the vulnerability Thursday as part of a broader software update in a release that credited Seattle-based cybersecurity firm ICEBRG for alerting them to the flaw. The findings come as Qatar faces significant geopolitical struggles, including a trade blockade established by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt. Over the last six months, politically-motivated Middle Eastern hacking has popped up numerous times. In late May, Qatar was outed as being connected to a hacking operation against top Republican donor Elliot Brody, an influential critic of the gulf state. Months earlier, Qater blamed UAE for hacking and editing content hosted by the Qatari News Agency (QNA), a government-backed news program. Subsequent reporting tied the QNA hack […]
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Chinese group said to use HackingTeam tools to spread ransomware, cryptominers
A sophisticated Chinese cybercrime group is using old, leaked computer code from a notorious cyber-arms dealer known as HackingTeam to breach thousands of companies, mostly based in Asia, according to new research by Israel cybersecurity firm Intezer. The latest observation shows how HackingTeam’s breach in 2015, when its wares leaked online for anyone to copy, is still having effects on global security. HackingTeam claims that it only sells its “lawful intercept” product to governments and law enforcement agencies, but prior investigations have shown the extent to which these tools are often abused by authoritarian regimes to target otherwise innocent dissidents. The 2015 leak provided these powerful capabilities to a wide array of people, including apparently cybercriminals. Intezer explained in a blog post published Tuesday that researchers first noticed a series of unique remote access trojans, cryptominers and ransomware variants for Windows, Linux and Android platforms while monitoring public data feeds. In addition, the group appears […]
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