The shadowy hacker coalition Anonymous’ most recent DDoS attacks against 11 organizations across the world have caused more than 550 hours of downtime and 742 service interruptions since the web assaults began Sept. 17, PandaLabs reports. The latest attacks that began Oct. 6 on the Spanish Copyright Protection Society, the Spanish Culture Ministry and Promusicae websites [...]
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A federal jury last week convicted a Maryland-based computer programmer of computer intrusion after he planted a logic bomb on his employer’s computer servers. Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana was a contractor working at Fannie Mae’s Urbana, Md., facility from 2006 to 2008. As a UNIX engineer, he worked on the organization’s network of nearly 5,000 computer [...]
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Europe is now the top spam-producing country in the world, bypassing North and South Americas, and Asia-Pacific, according to the Trend Micro semi-annual 2010 threat report. Spam continued to grow between January and June 2010, stalling briefly during April. Despite common perception, porn consists of only 4 percent of all spam. Commercial, scams-based and health/medical [...]
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Nearly two billion Internet users are vulnerable to scams and cyber assaults, in particular what a security company calls “crimeware-as-a-service” carried out by organized cyber criminals. In a newly released report by CA Technologies, researchers noted how Trojans are today the most common category of new threats, accounting for 73 percent of total threat infections [...]
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Cyber crooks are now taking advantage of the infamous Stuxnet worm as a way to deploy malicious code. Trend Micro researcher Ivan Macalintal has discovered poisoned search results leveraging on this notorious malware threat. Among the search strings used in this blackhat SEO campaign were “stuxnet SCADA,” “stuxnet removal tool,” “stuxnet cleanup,” “stuxnet siemens” and [...]
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Any large, future clash will “almost certainly” include aspects of cyber warfare–a threat that reaches far beyond military operations and into the core of the U.S. economy, said Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City last week. “Any major future conflict will almost certainly include [...]
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The Stuxnet worm blamed for infecting hundreds of thousands computers and critical infrastructure in Iran could have been an inside job, according to security experts. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, told V3.co.uk the malware could have been created by someone with detailed knowledge of Siemens’ computer systems, possibly a current or former employee. [...]
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In an effort to fight cyber terrorism in Brazil, Panda Security has signed an agreement to support the training of the Brazilian Army’s operational agents engaged in the battle against Internet-based crime and strategic intervention for cyber warfare. Panda Security will also provide endpoint protection to 37,500 computers belonging to the Army’s Military Commands to [...]
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Sweden would never have been able to protect itself against a worm like Stuxnet, and an attack by a similarly complex malware on the kingdom’s critical infrastructure would have had devastating–even fatal–consequences, warns a cybersecurity expert. TrueSec‘s security expert Marcus Murray told Dagens Nyheter the 1.18 megabyte virus that infected personal computers at Iran’s nuclear [...]
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Stuxnet Worm Suspected of Targeting ‘High-Value’ Infrastructure in Iran
September 24, 2010 2 CommentsOne of the most sophisticated and complex pieces of malware ever detected was probably targeting “high-value” infrastructure in Iran, BBC News reports. Some researchers claim the intricacy of Stuxnet indicates the malware could only have been created by a national government agency. Experts believe the malware to be the first of its kind to target [...]
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