Posts for category: Asia

1.5 million WordPress Sites Defaced

A security flaw has led to the defacement of more than 1.5 million WordPress sites within the last ten days. WordPress update 4.7.2, released on January 26, quietly included a security fix for a ...

OAuth 2.0 Protocol Exposes 1 Billion Mobile Applications To Account Hacking

Source: https://threatpost.com/oauth-2-0-hack-exposes-1-billion-mobile-apps-to-account-hijacking/121889/, http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/53081/hacking/oauth-2-0-attack.html (SecurityWeek, ...

DDoS Attacks on DYN Take Down Tech Giants: Github, Twitter, Netflix, and More

Source: John McAfee: North Korea behind Dyn DDoS assault, larger attacks on the way, DYN CONFIRMS DDOS ATTACK AFFECTING TWITTER, GITHUB, MANY OTHERS (TECHSPOT, Threatpost) On Friday October 21, ...

Ghost Push Malware Still Taking a Toll on Android Devices Through Malicious Links

Source: https://threatpost.com/ghost-push-trojan-flourishing-via-malicious-links/121310/, http://www.cmcm.com/blog/en/security/2016-10-14/1031.html(Threatpost, CheetahMobile) Cheetah Mobile a ...

Threat Group “Operation Ghoul” Targets Industrial Sectors Around the Globe

Source: http://www.securityweek.com/organizations-30-countries-targeted-operation-ghoul , ...

ProjectSauron APT Platform Used to Spy on Government Agencies and Critical Industries

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/08/09/top-level-cyber-espionage-group/, https://threatpost.com/projectsauron-apt-on-par-with-equation-flame-duqu/119725/ Kaspersky Lab and Symantec ...

India-Linked Threat Actor Targets Military, Political Entities Worldwide

Source: http://www.securityweek.com/india-linked-threat-actor-targets-military-political-entities-worldwide There is a new threat actor known as Patchwork, that has been targeting victims ...

Chinese Hacks on FDIC Covered Up by CIO

Source: http://www.securityweek.com/chinese-attacks-fdic-covered-cio, https://threatpost.com/congressional-report-china-hacked-fdic-and-agency-covered-it-up/119276/ This week a report has been ...

Chinese Ad Firm Raking in $300K a Month Through Adfraud, Android Malware

Source: https://threatpost.com/chinese-ad-firm-raking-in-300k-a-month-through-adfraud-android-malware/119030/ According to researchers at Check Point a group dubbed Yingmob has been running a ...