Russia’s ‘General Armageddon’ Is Now In Charge of Invasion in Ukraine
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Suspect in case of Mirai botnet, which knocked major sites offline in 2016, pleads guilty
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that an unnamed defendant has pleaded guilty in connection with a cyberattack that rocked the internet in 2016. The October 2016 distributed denial-of-service attack affected Dyn, an internet infrastructure company, before rippling out to cause outages for sites including Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, AirBnb and Reddit, among others. DDoS attacks typically occur when attackers access a network of hacked computers, then direct those connections to a single point on the web, overwhelming the target with traffic and knocking it offline. In this case, the defendant in question conspired with others in September and October 2016 to leverage an offshoot of an army of hackers computers known as the Mirai botnet, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The malicious tool relied on connected video cameras, recorders and other devices to carry out the incident. Authorities withheld the name of the defendant because they were a […]
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StrongPity APT Back with Kurdish-Aimed Watering Hole Attacks
The spy malware is being delivered via a complex infrastructure with multiple layers, in an effort to avoid analysis. Continue reading StrongPity APT Back with Kurdish-Aimed Watering Hole Attacks
Syrian government surveillance campaign turns to spreading malware in coronavirus apps
A Syrian government-backed hacking campaign has begun to distribute coronavirus-themed applications that are actually spyware, according to new research from mobile security firm Lookout. While some of the malware samples appear to have been created in March, the campaign is part of an espionage effort that has been in operation since at least January of 2018, according to Lookout. The campaign appears to target Arabic-speakers, Syrians, and those who may be critical of the Syrian government, Lookout Senior Security Intelligence Engineer Kristen Del Rosso told CyberScoop. “This is an ongoing campaign that has used a variety of application titles,” Del Rosso said. “But as with any major political event, economic event, health event — a new crisis gives actors something new to talk about to infect people [with malware].” In the last month alone, hackers tied to the Syrian government have leveraged at least 71 new malicious Android applications using coronavirus […]
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Thousands of Twitter accounts have been amplifying pro-Turkish propaganda
A barrage of social media disinformation has accompanied Turkey’s military incursion into Kurdish-held regions of northern Syria in what is the latest example of friendly Twitter bots backing a government at a time of international scrutiny. Thousands of Twitter accounts in recent weeks have sent tweets including the hashtag #BabyKillerPKK, according to findings published Wednesday by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. The hashtag is a reference to the Kurdistan’s Worker’s Party (PKK), which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization despite the PKK’s ties to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a traditional U.S. ally. Turkey does not make a distinction between the two groups, and Turkish-backed forces have assaulted Kurdish positions in the days since U.S. military personnel began withdrawing from the conflict at the direction of President Donald Trump. While Turkey’s military has launched airstrikes and backed militias that have killed civilians, bot-like Twitter accounts […]
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U.S. cyber-offensive against ISIS continues, and eyes are now on Afghanistan, general says
As loyalties among Afghanistan’s Islamic extremists continue to shift, the U.S. military may be poised to rely more heavily on offensive cyber capabilities to target one group in particular — the dispersed but still active membership of ISIS, according to one military cyber commander. Joint Task Force ARES, the outfit charged with running joint and coalition cyber-operations against ISIS, is working to uncover information about how the terrorist group continues to operate in Afghanistan, the deputy commander said Monday. “JTF-ARES is in or around where ISIS is operating,” Brig. Gen. Len Anderson said during a question and answer at an Atlantic Council event Monday. “We are trying to illuminate the network, trying to figure out how they’re communicating, what they’re using, where the money might be flowing, is there money.” Although the Islamic State’s physical caliphate has been crushed in Iraq and Syria, reporting from the Defense Intelligence Agency this year says the group still has a […]
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Who’s Behind the Syrian Electronic Army? – An OSINT Analysis
Continuing the “FBI Most Wanted Cybercriminals” series I’ve decided to continue providing actionable threat intelligence on some of the most prolific and wanted cybercriminals in the World through the distribution and dissemination of actionable intell… Continue reading Who’s Behind the Syrian Electronic Army? – An OSINT Analysis
Bitdefender GandCrab decryptor for Syrian users now available
We’re happy to announce the release of a new decryptor for victims of GandCrab ransomware. The tool can only be used by a limited pool of victims located in Syria, and works for GandCrab ransomware versions 1 through 5. At the tool’s core i… Continue reading Bitdefender GandCrab decryptor for Syrian users now available
GandCrab Authors Release Decryption Keys for Syrian Citizens
The authors behind GandCrab ransomware virus have released decryption keys for citizens of Syria. The public release of these decryption keys became a reality due to a tweet made by a Syrian victim. He asked for help with the recovery…Read more
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Hackers deface Airport screens in Iran with anti-government messages
By Waqas
On Thursday 24th May, the airport screens at Mashhad city in northeast
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