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Security firm AlienVault has released a highly interesting infographic called “The eternal life of malware.” Based on recent major cyber security events, experts have determined that modern malware never dies. Instead, it simply morphs and reappears. For instance, Stuxnet, which was first detected back... |
13 December 2012
07:35 GMT |
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A study performed by information security firm Cyber-Ark labs reveals that, in most of the recent high-profile cyberattacks, the common attack vector is the exploitation of privileged access points.
These privileged access points usually consist of administrative or privileged accounts, application backdoors, and ha... |
21 November 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Earlier today, we learned that French officials were accusing the United States of hacking into the computer networks of the Elysee Palace back in May, when Nicolas Sarkozy was still president. Now, US officials have released a statement categorically denying the accusations.
Initially, when asked about the incident... |
21 November 2012
09:50 GMT |
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In May, right before the second round of the French presidential elections, the computer networks from Elysee Palace, the president’s residence, were hacked. French authorities claim that the attack was carried out by the US, utilizing a piece of malware with functions very similar to the ones of Flame. Accord... |
21 November 2012
07:10 GMT |
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F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen has had an interesting interview with Dutch website Tweakers on topics such as digital wars and cybercrime.
In the interview, the expert shares some insight not only on cyber wars, but also on the actors that run them.
“The computer security field keeps c... |
22 October 2012
10:30 GMT |
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A few days ago, Kaspersky experts published the results of an analysis on SPE, also known as miniFlame, one of the brothers of the now-infamous Flame malware. Trend Micro researchers have also studied the threat and they claim that it’s somewhat similar to some of the well-known Remote Administration Trojans (R... |
18 October 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Back in September, Kaspersky experts revealed that the infamous threat known as Flame had at least three more brothers: SP, SPE and IP. Initially, the researchers believed that SPE – dubbed miniFlame – was a module of Flame, but their investigation has unveiled that it’s actually a unique standalone... |
15 October 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Kaspersky has partnered up with CERT-Bund (Computer Emergency Response Team für Bundesbehörden), Symantec and ITU-IMPACT in an effort to further analyze the now-infamous malware known as Flame. More precisely, the researchers studied the threat’s command and control (C&C) servers.
First of all, they ... |
17 September 2012
10:24 GMT |
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After further analyzing the traces of the mysterious Wiper malware, researchers are still unable to precisely determine how it works. They also haven’t been able to find a clear link between it and Duqu, Stuxnet or Flame. Back in April, the Iranian Oil Ministry reported sightings of a destructive piece of malw... |
29 August 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Iran’s telecommunications minister has revealed the country’s plans to disconnect sensitive systems from public Internet. The measure should protect critical infrastructures from cyberattacks. Iran has been often targeted by powerful pieces of malware such as Stuxnet and Flame and in the past few years t... |
6 August 2012
08:59 GMT |
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Researchers from Symantec, Kaspersky and Seculert have all come across Madi (Madhi), a relatively new piece of malware that mainly targets organizations from the Middle East.
Before we take a look at Madi and compare it to other infamous Trojans such as Stuxnet, Duqu, or Flame, let’s take a quick look at its ... |
18 July 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Flame is no longer making headlines, but security researchers continue to analyze the infamous piece of malware in an attempt to identify its clever mechanisms. Bitdefender experts have described advnetcfg.ocx, a module which alerted the developers in case antivirus software detected the malware or if other bugs prev... |
5 July 2012
09:17 GMT |
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A massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that targeted the Central Bank of Iran took down the organization’s website and disrupted its internal network’s activity on Tuesday.
According to The Algemeiner , which cites the Iranian Labour News Agency, the bank was attacked immediately after the... |
22 June 2012
05:19 GMT |
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The now-infamous Flame is not controversial just because of the way it spreads and the way it infects computers, but also because of its origin. The latest reports quote officials as saying that the malware is the creation of US and Israel, its purpose being to ensure that Iran couldn’t develop a nuclear weapon... |
20 June 2012
09:49 GMT |
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F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen has recently explained why security companies have failed to catch malware like Duqu, Stuxnet and Flame before they became widely known. In an article written for Wired, Hypponen admitted that the antivirus industry had failed because it couldn’t see that ... |
20 June 2012
09:14 GMT |
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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a 6-page report entitled “The threat from Flame,” which represents a short analysis of the risks posed by the now-infamous malware. According to the security agency, Flame, or Flamer as it’s mentioned in the paper, is a &ldq... |
12 June 2012
09:24 GMT |
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If up until now security researchers haven’t been able to find any direct connection between the new Flame and Stuxnet, further analysis has demonstrated that they’re very much related to each other, or at least they have been at some point in time.
Initially, experts didn’t consider the two ... |
11 June 2012
10:27 GMT |
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There are a couple of new reports about the now-infamous Flame that we thought of sharing with our readers. One group of researchers has stated that the malware may have been developed by world-class experts, while Symantec has revealed that the threat comes with a “suicide” functionality. While analyzin... |
8 June 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Many experts have been following the evolution of the recently discovered threat known as Flame, Flamer or Skywiper, especially since many believe that it has the potential to become the next Stuxnet.
One of the cleverest techniques implemented by the malware’s creators is the fact that it uses rogue Microsoft... |
7 June 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has released further details on the MD5 hash collision attacks utilized by the Flame malware to sign its code and make it look like it came from the company.
According to experts, at first glance Flame appeared to have a valid digital signature, but after further analysis, they reached the conclusion that ... |
7 June 2012
06:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a second security advisory to detail the way Flame, the now-infamous piece of malware, has managed to sign its code to make it look like it comes from Microsoft.
According to Mike Reavey, senior director at MSRC, Flame utilized a cryptographic collision attack, along with the terminal server l... |
5 June 2012
09:17 GMT |
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Shortly after the world learned of the existence of the Flame malware, security experts from Kaspersky rushed not only to analyze the threat, but also to remove the risks it posed. Collaborating with GoDaddy’s Network Abuse Department and OpenDNS’s security research team, Kaspersky has managed to sinkhol... |
5 June 2012
06:33 GMT |
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The malware commonly known as Flame has attracted the attention of many companies, mainly because of its level of sophistication and its targets. Now, Microsoft joins the ranks of firms that are doing everything in their power to ensure that attacks which leverage the malicious element are mitigated.
First of all, j... |
4 June 2012
05:43 GMT |
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From an information security standpoint, this past week (May 28 – June 3) has been quite an interesting one. Three major topics stand out: the new Flame malware, the WHMCS breach, and the controversy that surrounds the UGNazi hacker collective. When the world first learned of the Flame threat, many rushed to c... |
3 June 2012
01:41 GMT |
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For the past couple of days or so, the media and the security industry have been buzzing over the existence of what many have called the new Duqu, or the new Stuxnet. However, after a good night’s sleep and additional research, a number of experts have come to realize that Flame isn’t something that sho... |
1 June 2012
03:11 GMT |
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CSIS Security Group have discovered Tinba, what they believe to be “the world’s smallest Trojan-banker.” The malicious element belongs to a new malware family and it’s designed to steal sensitive information by attaching itself to the web browser and intercepting network traffic.
Before we ex... |
31 May 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Duqu and Stuxnet, currently known as the most complex pieces of malware ever built, are joined by another malicious element that’s been spotted by experts as targeting networks from the Middle East. Security researchers have analyzed the threat and dubbed it Flame. A number of renowned companies have released ... |
30 May 2012
03:44 GMT |
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