Source: Alien Vault
A couple of days ago, Adobe issued a security update for Adobe Flash Player that has been detected in the wild targeting specific objectives.
Tag Archives: Cyber Attacks
Several targeted attacks exploiting Adobe Flash Player
May 6, 2012 – 5:27 pm
Targeted attacks in Syria
May 3, 2012 – 2:51 pm
Source: F-Secure
Syria has been the center of much international attention lately.
Hackers breached top secret defense systems, UK cyber-security chief admits
May 3, 2012 – 2:08 am
Source: Nick Hopkins, The Guardian
Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence, the military’s head of cyber-security has revealed.
Avaaz claims its website under DDOS attack
May 2, 2012 – 2:29 am
Source: Avaaz
An expert has told Avaaz that an attack this large is likely coming from a government or large corporation, with massive, simultaneous and sophisticated assaults from across the world to take down their site.
Credit card data breach potentially compromises thousands of accounts
March 30, 2012 – 2:38 pm
Source: Robin Sidel and Andrew R. Johnson, Wall Street Journal
Concerns about credit-card security heightened Friday after a little-known Atlanta company disclosed it had been hit by hackers, potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of account holders to fraud.
Researchers clobber Khelios spam botnet
March 28, 2012 – 3:09 pm
Source: Krebs on Security
Experts from across the security industry collaborated this week to quarantine more than 110,000 Microsoft Windows PCs that were infected with the Khelios worm, a contagion that forces infected PCs to blast out junk email advertising rogue Internet pharmacies.
U.S. outgunned in hacker war
March 28, 2012 – 2:51 pm
Source: The Wall Street Journal
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top cyber cop offered a grim appraisal of the nation’s efforts to keep computer hackers from plundering corporate data networks: “We’re not winning,” he said.
BBC suffers cyber attack following Iran campaign
March 13, 2012 – 10:36 am
Source: Reuters
The BBC has suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service, director-general Mark Thompson said on Wednesday.
Thought paper on domain seizures and takedowns
March 8, 2012 – 6:40 pm
Source: Dave Piscitello, ICANN
Recent legal actions (Rustock, Coreflood and Kelihos, among others) resulting in disrupting or dismantling major criminal networks have involved seizures of domain names, DNS name server reconfiguration and transfers of domain name registrations as part of the takedown actions.
Syrian government uses malware to spy on activists
February 17, 2012 – 11:07 am
Source: Ben Brumfield, CNN
In Syria’s cyberwar, the regime’s supporters have deployed a new weapon against opposition activists — computer viruses that spy on them, according to an IT specialist from a Syrian opposition group.
