Category Archives: sabotage

More Details on Israel Sabotaging Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies

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The Washington Post has a long and detailed story about the operation that’s well worth reading (alternate version here).

The sales pitch came from a marketing official trusted by Hezbollah with links to Apollo. The marketing official, a woman whose identity and nationality officials declined to reveal, was a former Middle East sales representative for the Taiwanese firm who had established her own company and acquired a license to sell a line of pagers that bore the Apollo brand. Sometime in 2023, she offered Hezbollah a deal on one of the products her firm sold: the rugged and reliable AR924…

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Story of Gus Weiss

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This is a long and fascinating article about Gus Weiss, who masterminded a long campaign to feed technical disinformation to the Soviet Union, which may or may not have caused a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the 1980s, if in fact there even was a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the 1980s. Lots of information about… Continue reading Story of Gus Weiss→

New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems

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EKANS is a new ransomware that targets industrial control systems: But EKANS also uses another trick to ratchet up the pain: It’s designed to terminate 64 different software processes on victim computers, including many that are specific to industrial control systems. That allows it to then encrypt the data that those control system programs interact with. While crude compared to… Continue reading New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems→

A Daring Search for Answers in Soyuz Mystery

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If you happened to tune into NASA TV on December 11th, you’d have been treated to a sight perhaps best described as “unprecedented”: Russian cosmonauts roughly cutting away the thermal insulation of a docked Soyuz spacecraft with a knife and makeshift pair of shears. Working in a cloud of material ripped loose during the highly unusual procedure, cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev were effectively carving out their own unique place in space history. Their mission was to investigate the external side of the suspicious hole in the Soyuz MS-09 capsule which caused a loss of air pressure on the …read more

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Glitter Bomb against Package Thieves

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Stealing packages from unattended porches is a rapidly rising crime, as more of us order more things by mail. One person hid a glitter bomb and a video recorder in a package, posting the results when thieves opened the box. At least, that’s what might have happened. At least some of the video was faked, which puts the whole thing… Continue reading Glitter Bomb against Package Thieves→

Fraudulent Tactics on Amazon Marketplace

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Fascinating article about the many ways Amazon Marketplace sellers sabotage each other and defraud customers. The opening example: framing a seller for false advertising by buying fake five-star reviews for their products. Defacement: Sellers armed with the accounts of Amazon distributors (sometimes legitimately, sometimes through the black market) can make all manner of changes to a rival’s listings, from changing… Continue reading Fraudulent Tactics on Amazon Marketplace→

More Shamoon 3 Attacks Detected in the Middle East and Europe

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After an Italian company recently confirmed that its infrastructure was attacked with a new version of a destructive malware program called Shamoon, security companies discovered additional infections in the Middle East and Europe. “During the p… Continue reading More Shamoon 3 Attacks Detected in the Middle East and Europe→