Security News

White House, State Department Counted Among CozyDuke APT Victims (Threatpost)
2015-04-22 19:09

A data-mining advanced persistent threat hit a handful of high profile targets last year, including the White House’s computer network.

White House cyber attackers linked to OnionDuke APT actor (Help Net Security)
2015-04-22 11:55

It's widely believed that the October 2014 breaches of US State Department and White House computer systems have been executed by Russian hackers. Kaspersky Lab researchers have recently shared more d...

Russian APT group actively exploiting Flash, Windows 0-day flaws (Help Net Security)
2015-04-20 11:13

APT28, believed to consist of Russian hackers, has been spotted wielding two zero-day exploits in the latest targeted attack aimed at an "international government entity in an industry vertical that a...

Week in review: APT wars, 18-year-old bug endangers Windows users, and main sources of data breaches (Help Net Security)
2015-04-20 05:00

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Simda botnet taken down in global operation The Simda botnet, believed to have infected more than 770,000 computers ...

New trend in cybercriminal activity: APT wars (Help Net Security)
2015-04-15 06:54

Kaspersky Lab has recorded a rare and unusual example of one cybercriminal attacking another. In 2014, Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyberespionage group targeting mostly government a...