Posts for category: North America

Retired Four Star U.S. General Charged With Lying in Iran Cyber Attack Examination

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/marine-general-james-cartwright-leak-fbi.html?_r=2, http://www.securityweek.com/retired-us-general-charged-lying-iran-cyber-attack-probe Prosecutors ...

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 ...

Iran-linked Threat Group Targets Government Organizations

Source: http://www.securityweek.com/iran-linked-attackers-target-government-organizations(SecurityWeek) An Iran-linked threat group who has been observed attacking organizations in Saudi Arabia ...

APT Gang Sofacy is Targeting OS X Machines with “Komplex” Trojan

Source: https://threatpost.com/sofacy-apt-targeting-os-x-machines-with-komplex-trojan/120882/, http://www.securityweek.com/russian-cyberspies-use-komplex-trojan-target-os-x-systems(Threatpost, ...

The White House Hires a New Federal CISO

Source: https://threatpost.com/white-house-hires-first-federal-ciso/120471/, https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/09/08/announcing-first-federal-chief-information-security-officer(ThreatPost, The ...

Russian Cyber Espionage Group Accused of Leaking Data of Olympic Athletes

Source: http://www.securityweek.com/russian-cyberspies-accused-attack-olympics-anti-doping-agency, http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/15/sport/wada-hacking-craig-reedie/ (Security Week, CNN) The ...

Hackers Downloaded Information from 200,000 voters in Illinois

Source: http://www.securityweek.com/fbi-warns-attacks-state-election-systems, https://threatpost.com/fbi-warned-state-election-board-systems-of-hacks/120198/(Security Week, Threatpost) The FBI’s ...

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

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