Researchers following a cyber espionage campaign apparently bent on stealing drone-related technology secrets have found additional malware related to the targeted attacks. FireEye researchers have been tracking so-called "Operation ...
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The US government is to introduce a "cyber espionage review" process into future purchases of IT after the measures were passed in a new funding law signed this week by President Obama. It follows reports in the press since the beginning ...
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Cyberattacks are near the top of the list of most serious threats facing the U.S., with the rivaling concerns about terrorism and North Korea, intelligence officials with President Barack Obama's administration said. James Clapper, the ...
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The next world war could feature cyber attacks, but not in the way that most people assume, according to the Symantec EMEA CTO Greg Day. Analysis: The era of geopolitical cyber wars Police prevented from chasing cyber criminals from ...
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Romanian security company BitDefender today said it has traced the cyber-espionage malware "MiniDuke" back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered. BitDefender found the malware by digging through its ...
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A version of MiniDuke, the cyberspy malware aimed at governments and agencies in Europe and elsewhere, has been operating for at least 21 months, internet security firm Bitdefender has discovered. The newly discovered version also raises ...
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Security researchers have identified an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign that compromised 59 computers belonging to government organizations, research institutes, think tanks and private companies from 23 countries in the past 10 days. ...
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A cyber espionage operation dubbed MiniDuke has targeted government organisations in as many as 23 countries, security vendors said on Wednesday. The malware uses well-crafted PDF documents to trick recipients into opening the malicious ...
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China's Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday refuted the accusations that the nation's military supports cyberespionage, and said a recent security report backing the claims used scientifically flawed evidence. The ministry made the ...
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China’s Ministry of National Defence on Wednesday denied recent accusations that the nation’s military supports cyber espionage, saying that a security report backing the claims used scientifically flawed evidence. The ...
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Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week. Hackers have already been exploiting the bugs using rigged PDF documents sent as email attachments. "Adobe plans to make ...
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Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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The head of the malware analysis team at antivirus vendor Kaspersky said last week that a recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and probably part of ...
A cyber espionage network has been allowed to flourish in Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics and Central Asian countries since 2007, security firm Kaspersky Lab reported this week. The group, called Red October, has been stealing ...
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A major cyber-attack that steals encrypted files, believed to have been targeted at embassies, nuclear research centres and energy organisations, has been uncovered by anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky. The company claims that it has ...
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