According to a newly unsealed indictment, two Chinese nationals working with the Chinese ministry of state security have been charged with hacking a number of U.S. government agencies and corporations.…
Day: December 21, 2018
Iranian APT Group Pegged for Shamoon Disk Wiping Attacks
Researchers have attributed a new wave of Shamoon disk wiper attacks to Iranian hacking group APT33. The attacks targeted several energy, telecoms and government organizations in the Middle East, often via…
Nasa hack exposes space agency staff's data
Nasa has emailed its staff to warn them that hackers may have stolen their personal details. The message said it suspected that two of its servers containing details of past…
Microsoft releases security update for new IE zero-day
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update today, December 19, for an Internet Explorer vulnerability that is currently being abused in the wild. The OS maker credited Clement Lecigne of…
Remote Firmware Attack Renders Servers Unbootable
Security researchers have found a way to corrupt the firmware of a critical component usually found in servers to turn the systems into an unbootable hardware assembly. The recovery procedure…
Financial Services Employees Targeted with RAT
An active email campaign is reportedly targeting banking and financial services employees in the US and UK using popular cloud services to host the malicious payload, according to a blog posted today…